Front Entry Doors What are My Options

Published: September 22, 2020

Wooden Front Entry Door with Side Lights

Your front entry door must be tough; it needs to stand up to all of the possible elements of your region whether it's high winds, rain/snow, direct sun light and also keep out would be intruders and any other un welcome guests. Along with all these requirements your front door also needs to look good, after all your front door is first thing guests see when coming to your home and we all know first impressions are everything. Wood doors have been around forever and even though newer types of doors like metal and fiberglass have come t market wood entry doors are considered the upper echelon of doors.

Replacing your Front Entry Door

Sometimes replacing your front doors is as simply as replacing the existing door slab with a new one. Other times you may need to replace the entire frame, jamb, and threshold because they have begun to rot or are in disrepair. Even if the door frame is in good condition the studs it is attached to may have become bowed and out of square, and the only option here is a wooden door as these types of doors can be trimmed so the door hangs correctly.

What are My Options?

Prehung Front Entry Doors

The majority of new doors are prehung which means the door comes already encased in a new frame. This is your best option of your old frame is bad or you are enlarging the current opening. Things to consider when going with a prehung door, is this going to be a left or right handed door, you also want your entry door to swing inwards and not out. When measuring for prehung doors make sure to add 1/2-inch to the frame height and 1/2-inch to 3/4-inch to the width.

Slab Doors

If you plan on keeping your existing frame and are just replacing the door itself you can choose a slab door which allows you to set hinge and door side yourself. Slab wood doors can also be a little more work if you need to mortise out for a lockset and hinges, but can also alleviate the need to remove the entire frame, jamb and any casing to replace the entire door and jamb.

Why Wood Front Entry Doors

Estate Millwork's entry doors are milled from the highest grades of wood and crafted using classic, century's old techniques. All of our wood doors can be fully custom built to fit your home or business. Additionally, we can create a door that matches your dream door perfectly by providing multiple accent customization options or even milling a custom wood door from your original sketches. In the paragraphs below, we will explore our door making process and discuss what the advantages of our front entry doors are.

Wood Entry Door Customization Options

We offer customization for our interior and exterior doors. There are many ways to customize your doors and you can choose your specific level of customization. We offer a wide variety of pre designed styles to choose from. Perhaps you will find exactly what you are looking for in one of these designs. If not, you can take one of these base designs and customize from there. You can customize the fixtures, panel styles and sizes, width, height, wood type, stain or paint color, and more. This ensures that not only do you have a wood door that fits in fit your entryway exactly; it will also match the decor and style of your home. If you would like an even higher level of customization, you draw or sketch out what you want. We will take those sketches and create a custom rendering that we can use to mill your custom wood doors. Is this too much customization for you? Don't worry! You can work our team of experts that will help you design your custom wood doors at 1.866.322.0040 to speak to a custom louvered door specialist. They will guide you through your options and help you choose the wood doors that will best suit your home. They will also help you select the type of wood that is best suited for your climate. If you would like to customize your wood doors online, we can help with that as well.

Highest Quality Front Entry Doors

All of our woods that go in to our doors are hand selected from rough cut whole wood to ensure that you receive matching grains of wood on all of the components of your doors. We harvest all of our timber using sustainable forestry from local woodlands in the Alleghenies. These cuts of wood are hand selected by our mill working experts. Through a modern, hybridized process, we fuse old world techniques from the 18th century with modern automation to produce wood doors that are the most durable and best constructed on the market. Our milling process ensures the highest control of quality, moisture content, fresh surfaces for glue and climate control.

Both our exterior wood doors and interior wood doors are ensured to be the highest quality due to their hand-crafted construction, deep pocket mortise and tenon joinery, feather tenoned and double tongued base rails, floating panel frames, secure seated louvers, full custom thickness and sizing, historically accurate designs and styles, and are 100% American made.

Your front entry doors can also be customized by color or stain. We offer exact color matching if you would like your new entry door painted. We also offer a large variety of stains and finishes that will protect your doors and offer the perfect look to compliment your home or office.

Dark Flat Panel Front Entry Door with Side Lites

Why Our Doors are the Best

Our wood doors are far superior to the competition because we provide a level of attention to detail and customization that can't be matched. Our mill workers are all highly experienced professionals that have years of experience in milling custom wood doors, and in some cases our mill technicians are second or third generation mill workers. Our woods are the highest grade, premium, FAS approved hardwoods.

Benefits of Our Front Entry Doors

18th century traditional milling process
Free help from our custom wood door experts
Energy saving exterior wood doors
Customize your own louvers, panels, and fixtures
Sound reducing interior wooden doors
Custom painting and priming
FAS premium woods used in all of our doors

Energy Efficient Entry Doors

Whole cut solid wood is used to fabricate all of our wooden doors. Because the wood is solid and custom milled to the exact size of your doorway, you will have completely flush doors for your entryway. The solid wood will act as insulation to keep the internal climate of your home steady.

High Durability

High quality solid wood doors will last for decades if properly maintained. They can be repainted and restained if they show ware, and our wide variety of wood stocks ensures that you will be able to select the wood that is best suited for your climate and location.

If you have any questions about our wood doors or need help designing a custom wood door, please call 1.866.322.0040 and one of our custom wood door specialists will help you for free with no obligation!