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Modern Style Exterior Front Doors

The most popular front doors people are buying today are modern style exterior front doors.

Some people like old french front doors, while others like the old fashioned entry ways. However since early 2010 more modern style doors are being shipped every day compared to vintage style doors.

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With modern entry ways in particular, digital keypads are becoming more popular. Some home owners are looking for more modern replacement front doors as an excuse to use new fancy electronic gadgets.

Believe it or not the price of a newer fiberglass door design is cheap compared to vintage and old style french and mahogany exterior doors. With the economy slowly rising the purchases of fiberglass doors is increasing.

When choosing particular features for your front entry way there’s a lot that you can do. From fancy door locks, keypads, glass and emblems an entry way can be fitted with many types of exterior front door hardware.

Distributors and contractors alike are doing things a bit cheaper this season and this is a great time to buy. This summer exterior home improvements have risen almost 50%.

It’s no surprise that people are upgrading their homes with new features. Now is the time to modernize your home while prices are still down. One year from now the price of a custom door will certainly be higher than today.

Improve Your Entry Way With Exterior Front Door Hardware

Any home’s appearance can be strikingly improved with new hardware for your front door.

There’s in fact many often overlooked hardware options for exterior front doors.   Do you have a doorbell?  If not you can either buy an elegant looking doorbell, or an old fashioned style door knocker!  Bet you didn’t think of that one.  Door knockers come in many different materials, shapes, and sizes.  Brass, cast iron, stainless steel, copper, plastic and many other possible materials.  Worthwhile addition to a wood exterior front door.

Customize the door knob on a front door and create an immediate sense of welcome and energy.  Don’t forget that your doorknob is one of the first things anybody will touch at your home.  They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but so is a first impression.  Wooden and fiberglass exterior front doors have many doorknob types to choose from.  For older homes, dummy knobs and keyed doorknobs enhance the feel and personality of any house.  Door knobs are easy to install and shouldn’t take a handyman or contractor more than 1 hour to install on any exterior front door.  Very easy and affordable home improvement tip there.   Add a new doorknob to your front entry way.

Address numbers and badges to exterior house doors are a proven finishing touch to any modern or colonial style homes.  Believe it or not address numbers and custom badges come in multiple fonts, sizes, colors, and materials.  These items are easy to find, typically at any Home Depot or home improvement outlet store and online.  This is another cheap and easy simple renovation.  Decorative custom front doors are easy and affordable to create.

Custom dead bolt locks at your entrance doors are yet another simple customization that’s quick, easy and affordable.

Exterior Front Door Designs

Exterior front doors can be purchased in a very wide variety of styles and designs.

Any front entry way can be customized with custom front doors.  Glass, wood, single and double doors.

There’s nothing like having custom exterior doors for home entrance ways.

This is the first thing anyone will see or TOUCH when at your home.  Choosing the right door design makes any home look one hundred times more attractive and inviting.

Materials to choose from for your front doors are wood, and fiberglass.  There’s also a wide variety of glass style doors,  stained glass, tinted glass and clear glass can be arranged to your liking with any modern door style.

There are many set up possibilities for how you arrange your doors and windows.  A single door could be paired up with two vertical  glass windows on either side.  Potentially an arched top glass above the front door, I like to call these arrangements french front doors.

Double doors create an increasingly more welcoming appearance with a considerable increase in equity, quality and curb appeal.  Double custom front doors are usually situated by themselves inside a well decorated entrance way.  Typically these will not be surrounded by small windows but can be infused with larger glass windows within the doors themselves, which will still allow sunlight to make your entrance just as welcoming.

The options available for wood doors are incredible this style is what I prefer no matter what other characteristics my home has.  Wooden front doors can be customized not only with their design, but with the stain and finish.  The limitations of stains which you can use on these doors are endless.   Mahogany doors are a great way to maintain either a modern style, or to mimic antique exterior doors.   There is of coarse another option which is to get a paint able door.

I’m not a big fan of painted doors but it is cheaper, and actually can be quite a bit more unique as it’s easier to mix and match different colors.  For example a bright yellow house with black shutters might look great with a bright white or yellow painted door, where as a dark brown house with cedar siding would be great for stained solid wood doors.

A great budget friendly alternative to using wood, is to install fiberglass exterior doors instead.  These are typically not to be painted or stained, and come with only colors available from your supplier and can’t really be customized.  Also a fiberglass door is typically a lot simpler and much less detailed as far as the designs go.  You probably won’t find anything too fancy but what’s true is this, they ARE SOLID, they do not fade, chip or peel, and most of all they are 100% resistant to weather.  Wood doors are the complete opposite except for being solid, but a huge amount of personality and character to any home.

With all that said I’m sure that it will be an extremely gratifying experience when your exterior front doors are installed and have everybody in town turning their head because your house caught their eye.