The gray is steel, the glass is rendered light blue, and the wood is shown as brown. I should point out that I took our construction drawings into Photoshop and added some color so that it might be a little bit easier to see what’s what. There is also a two-foot tall glass transom above the eight-foot tall door. This was our first iteration of the front door – large steel frame, wood panel insert, clear glass for viewing running vertically along the thickened steel edge that will eventually contain all the mechanisms associated with the door hardware. (click images and they’ll open at a larger scale in a new window) And let’s be honest, it also makes for a much cooler door. Hinging a door in this way can allow for an extremely wide door – 5′-7 1/2″ wide in this case – to be a bit more manageable to control. This is called a “center hung pivot hinge”, which basically means that the pivot point is centered along the center of the door thickness. I have shown the path of the door swing in blue so that it might be easier to see that this door is not hinged along one side, but rather pivots along a point approximately 12″ in from one edge. The architectural style would be described as transitional (something between modern and traditional) and we have a really clean palette of materials. The plan above shows the floor plan of the front door of a house I currently have under construction. You should know most of these items well enough already, so instead I am going to focus on the visual aspects of a front door, and I am going to use a door that we are currently building as the example of what can happen when you have some fun. I am not going to focus on the obvious objectives that your front door serves – I think that would be like me telling you not to touch a hot pan or you will get burned. When thinking about a front door, there are certain self-evident objectives that should be met – things like security ( both real and perceived), protection from the weather, warm and inviting ( hopefully – although maybe this isn’t always desired) reception point. Besides being the gateway to your home, it helps provide the first exclamation mark of the entry procession. How often do you think about your front door? I bet it’s not all that often … and that’s a pity because the front door to your house is important.
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