When it comes to enhancing the elegance and charm of your home or office, premium wooden raised panel doors are a timeless choice that exudes sophistication and craftsmanship. In this article, we'll explore the world of premium wooden raised panel doors, highlighting their unique features, benefits, and how they can transform your living or working space.
Exquisite Craftsmanship: Premium wooden raised panel doors are a testament to the artistry and skill that goes into their creation. Crafted from high-quality wood, such as oak, maple, or cherry, these doors showcase the natural beauty of wood grains and intricate detailing. The raised panels add depth and dimension, making them a striking focal point in any room.
Elegance and Versatility: These doors are not only functional but also highly versatile in terms of design. They seamlessly complement various architectural styles, from traditional to transitional and even modern. Whether you're aiming for a classic look or a contemporary feel, premium wooden raised panel doors offer a timeless elegance that suits any interior.
Strength and Durability: Investing in premium wooden raised panel doors is an investment in durability and longevity. The solid construction and high-quality wood used ensure that these doors can withstand the test of time. With proper care and maintenance, they continue to showcase their beauty and functionality for generations.
Customization Options: Your design preferences are unique, and your doors should reflect that. Premium wooden raised panel doors come with a wide range of customization options, including wood finishes, stains, and hardware choices. This flexibility allows you to tailor these doors to your specific aesthetic vision.
Energy Efficiency: In addition to their aesthetic appeal, premium wooden raised panel doors can contribute to energy efficiency in your space. The solid wood construction provides excellent insulation, helping to maintain a comfortable temperature indoors. This can lead to energy savings and a more eco-friendly living or working environment.
Easy Maintenance: Maintaining the beauty of your premium wooden raised panel doors is hassle-free. Regular cleaning and occasional refinishing are usually all that's needed to preserve their exquisite appearance. The durability of these doors means they are less susceptible to wear and tear, making them a practical and low-maintenance choice.
Custom Built Solid Oak Doors
If you're in the market for a time-tested classic, consider an Estate Millwork all-wood custom oak door. Our careful, skilled craftsmanship and cutting-edge green plant practices ensure that each custom door we sell provides you with years of satisfaction.
Oak wood is everlasting: Oak is a highly dense hardwood that is also strong, easy to work with, and pest-resistant. Our custom oak doors look classy stained, painted, or left natural; and quality craftsmanship ensures that you'll enjoy your louvered doors for decades.
Options: Oak wood comes in two varieties: red and white. While white oak is a bit more water-resistant than its cousin, red oak adds panache because of its creamy, salmon-pink hue. Oak is also easy to work with, offering endless options for custom doors.
Explore our oak doors and our green plant
Man's carbon footprint is growing. At Estate Millwork, we aim to reduce the impact our wood door manufacturing processes have on the Earth. Our supplies are green because we only partner with sustainable-harvest wood providers. Our plant is green, too: we practice recycling and energy-saving procedures each and every day.
No matter which style of door suits your tastes, rest assured that your custom door will be made of 100 percent real oak wood. Our door experts have seen firsthand just how poorly faux-wood furnishings hold up, and we guarantee that only solid oak components go into every custom door.
We use top-grade red or white oak in all of our custom wood doors.
Red Oak or White Oak - Indoors or Outdoors
Exterior Oak Doors: Oak's natural water resistance and strength mean it is an excellent material from which to fashion a custom exterior entryway. We offer so many kinds of oak exterior doors that you might just have to take some extra time to decide on one.
Interior oak wood doors: Strong, solid oak wood doors stand up to puppies, kids, cats, foot traffic, and frequent open-and-shut motions. By insisting upon expert craftsmanship and genuine white or red oak components, we create custom wood doors that last for years and years.
Wooden Doors Fabricated from Premium Lumber Grades
Stain Grade Lumber
For our louvered door products ordered in stain grade, we use FAS clear hardwood grades for both domestic and imported lumber. For projects requiring environmentally sensitive grades, we also offer FSC certification when required. We procure all of our lumber electronically, and order only the FAS clear grades. Additionally, we pre-select and inspect each shipment of lumber, and moisture check to insure that it meets our 8% standard. And as part of our routine quality process, each board from a unit of lumber is inspected as part of our quality louvered door manufacturing process.
Paint Grade Lumber
Even our economical paint grade louvered doors are manufactured from FAS grade lumber. The FAS specification controls the type of defects that are permitted, including knots, which we exclude from our paint grade products. However, features that would be considered defects in stain grade products -- color streaks, mineral discoloration etc, are not pertinent in paint grade. Typically, we use Poplar and occasionally Oak and Soft Maple for our paint grade products.
Color and Grain Matching
For high end louvered doors, we can offer a pre-selection service whereby all of the lumber required for the entire louvered door job is picked, inspected, and designated to be assembled as a unit at one time, which often results in boards from the same tree ending up in the same door for maximum consistency. When specified we can also book match raised panels and flat panels when used in our louvered doors.
Milling and Sawing Specifications
For our highly discriminating louvered door customers, we can offer our various hardwood species to be sawn in certain way, to emphasize a desirable feature of the wood. If required, the door material can be specified as flat-sawn, quarter-sawn, rift-sawn or ribbon sawn. Talk with your Estate Millwork louvered door specialist to inquire about adding these specifications to your order.
Top Quality and Elegant Custom Wood Doors
Estate Millwork creates each custom wood door from your detailed specifications. We use premium materials, state of the art equipment, and an experienced, quality oriented staff to produce our doors. We follow each of the steps below to produce the finest wooden doors on the market.
Hand Selection and Inspection of Materials
Our lumber procurement process is computer driven so that we are sure to be getting the best possible price on the highest quality materials. Once your order is "green-lighted" for production in our plant, the lumber demand is compared to our shop inventory and automatic replenishment orders are placed if necessary. When production begins on each custom door, the material is hand selected and the best of our high quality stock is used for the solid stiles of the doors. Louvers and rails are generally selected from the same lot of material to afford the best match, within the natural variation of hardwoods.
Precision Ripping of Rails and Stiles
We minimize the costs of our high quality products by maximizing the yield on the rough lumber. Once the lumber of the appropriate thickness has been selected, it is passed through our ripping department where a specialized gang rip saw is used to get the maximum yield from each board. Our operators are trained to reject defective materials either during the selection process or during the sawing process, as some defects are latent and are not visible until the board is "opened up".
Hand Jointing of All Door Components
The next step is to hand joint each rough sawn board to get a true flat edge, and to relieve any internal stress in the solid wood. This is a step that is skipped by many modern door manufactures, but one that we believe is so important that we honor the tradition. Our most skilled craftsmen in the plant are responsible for this function which requires judgement, precision and experience. Lower quality door manufacturers skip this step, or use particle cores and veneers to fake the look of a real door. But by hand jointing each board, we insure that every other step in the process is operating on a flat, smooth board, and that the door will remain stable for its lifetime.
Precision moulding of all door components
Once the rails and stiles have been ripped to width and jointed on one face, we process them through a 5 headed moulder which reduces the wooden door components (rails, stiles, louvers) to their final cross sectional dimensions and profiles. We offer 3 stock louver sizes, but can customize them to any other size or profile. Again, at this phase, parts are inspected for defects to make sure that the final piece meets our high standards
Precision CNC Machining of Mortises, Tenons and Louver Slots
Because we do not cut corners, we also use old fashioned, but time tested joinery. Our doors are held together with true mortise and tenon joints, rather than the cheaper, less time consuming and lower quality options of dowels, screws, or biscuits. Our mortise and tenon joints are so precise and tight fitting that gluing the doors is not even necessary, they hold themselves together. Our CNC eqiupment is accurate to .001 inch, and is automatically programmed by our advanced plant management system that monitors your order as it proceeds through each department. Our CNC operators are highly skilled and go through a year of specialized on the job training where they learn the safe operation of the equipment, and advanced techniques like radius and pattern machining.
Hand Assembly by Experienced Craftsmen
Once all of the custom door parts are completely machined, they are pre-sanded and then hand assembled by a team of meticulous craftsmen. On fixed louver doors, the louvers are hand beveled and inserted into the deep seat louver mortises in the stiles, and then the entire door is clamped in a clamping system while the pegs are drilled into the tenons. Operable Louver doors are assembled in a similar fashion, where each louver is set in a nylon bushing for maximum life, and a custom louver rod is attached to the louvers to give trouble free, friction free operation for many years.
Machine Sanding to tolerance
Once the door has been completely assembled, it goes through our machine sanding department -- giant sanders big enough to sand garage doors are used for multiple passes to bring the surfaces to their final dimensions and grit. In most cases our doors are machine sanded to 150 which removes most visible roughness.
Hand Sanding.
The final step in our process is the hand sanding of the doors to break edges, and to finish sand areas that are not sanded by the machine process. Our finishers are the best in the business and during this phase, they carefully inspect the finished product and either prepare it for paint or stain, or carefully pack the door for shipment.
Mahogany, a Hallmark of Fine Work
When Mahogany first became popular in the western world, it was exclusively sourced Central and South America, but as supply began to dwindle due to poor logging practices, manufacturers began to search for alternatives. Today we find Mahogany still as a primary species used in fine furniture making but also so much more. Mahogany is a great exterior wood option as it is much lighter weight than many of its comtemport counterparts. Its stability makes it a great option for windows and doors and the clear quality and easy workability of the species makes for outstanding millwork where find details are needed.
Mahogany is an outstanding wood to work with and has experienced recent popularity as an exterior wood, it is used extensively by window and door manufacturers due to its exceptional moisture and rot resistance. Many cabinet and furniture makers prize the wood not only for its durability, but also for its ease of machining and its deep, rich color. As it was hundreds of years ago Mahogany still remains a hallmark of fine work.
Mahogany hardwood is synonymous with timeless elegance, renowned for its rich, reddish-brown color, exquisite grain patterns, and exceptional durability. One of the hallmarks of mahogany hardwood is its captivating appearance. Its deep, lustrous color matures beautifully over time, developing a luxurious patina that enhances its natural beauty. Whether you're crafting exquisite furniture, creating custom cabinetry, or installing flooring, mahogany hardwood adds a touch of opulence to any space. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, mahogany hardwood is celebrated for its durability and stability. It is known for its resistance to warping and shrinking, making it an excellent choice for high-end, long-lasting projects. Its fine, straight grain and smooth texture lend themselves to precision work, making it a favorite among woodworkers and craftsmen. Moreover, mahogany hardwood is highly versatile when it comes to finishing. It accepts stains and finishes exceptionally well, allowing you to achieve the exact look you desire, from a deep, traditional finish to a more contemporary and sleek appearance.
Handcrafted with Sustainably Harvested Lumber
At Estate Millwork we air dry much of our lumber, and after air drying we finish drying in low wattage dehumidification kilns.
Every piece of wood we purchase is used to the fullest on products, at Estate Millwork we have a very high yield ratio of 94 percent due to the use of automated saws and optimizing software. The remainimg 6 percent which is mostly sawdust and chips are either burned to heat our plant or send to local cattle farmers for bedding and composting.
Nothing is wasted. Some of Appalachian lumber we use comes from Amish farmers in our county who harvest with horses instead of mechanized equipment, and do our rough sawing on 1920s sawmills that are also extremely low input compared to larger commercial sawmills of today. All of our imported lumber is plantation grown, and not harvested from natural forests.
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