Advice on color entry door?
Laura Trudel
18 days ago
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Front door entry right into kitchen..looking for kitchen layout advice
Comments (14)If you want an entry area, put up a wall and have one. We have a home now where someone knocked out the wall between the nice entry and the living room and we basically put the wall back with a shoe bench and shelf arrangement (freestanding because we didn’t want to do construction work) because it just flows better that way. We also just looked at another house which we decided not to go for after much deliberation in part because if we opened it up to get much needed space, we’d end up with a big box with the front door entering right into everything, like a small apartment layout. Houses, especially houses with kids and lots of visitors, need some way to control the flow of traffic and direct people to where they should take off coats and boots and what have you. If you have room for a mud room, great, but if not - entry area is a necessity, IMO. And people are going to be beyond bored with HGTV style everything probably sooner rather than later - next year or the year after it’ll be some other designer and they will be putting walls up because everyone is sick of open plan and always being on display while cooking. If this is your forever home then do what you like and what feels good to you, not what’s popular on HGTV. (If you were going to flip the house then I might be saying something different.) Personally, if my front door were that close to my kitchen, I’d really really really want some kind of wall for privacy. Who wants all your mid-meal cooking mess to be on display to anyone who comes to the door?...See MoreTherma-Tru Fiberglass Entry Door Advice Needed
Comments (29)Ksc36 - I disagree with you about the composite door jambs. Do you actually have a door with them? I drank the marketing Kool-aid when I ordered my new door, and chose the composite door jambs that replaced the 25-year-old wood door jambs. I am wondering if you did same. The wood jambs are heavier, feel solid. The composite door jambs feel light, and not solid. I should have realized that the composite door thing is a way for door companies to charge more for something that is much cheaper for them to manufacture, and so they made up a bunch of hooey to make people buy them. Sounds great in the brochures though. The owner of the door contracting company told me he has begun steering his customers away from the composite jambs now that he's had some experience with them....See MoreEntry/Front Door Advice
Comments (2)Thanks for the advice. I was thinking of something like this picture below, but not sure if it fits the style with the grills. Maybe it's ok without them? Or should I go with all glass or at least 3/4 glass. Desperate for light as entryway is so small and cramped. With current door I have to leave door open to get light through the screen door. Would love to remove it. Need a color idea too...See MoreNew entry door - looking for advice regarding brand
Comments (4)Andersen is not typically a front door, it is more of a patio door. Therma Tru is as low as I would go on the food chain. None of those others for anything more than an outbuilding or a shed honestly. TT is a decent door, not great and definitely stay away from the box stores....See MoreBoxerpal
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