15+ Uniquely Charming Exterior Front Doors
By definition, an exterior door is a doorway that allows entrance into a building or an exit into the outside world. It is also the first element of a house that might prelude how it will be inside before we actually enter it. It can also act as an identifier so that guests can easily spot your place. This is very common in places like London where there are a lot of identical houses in a row and painting your door a bright easily differentiated color is a sure way to make it very easy to spot. There are lots of different materials that can be used for doors, like fiberglass, wood, or steel and many special details that can be added to really make it your own, like raised panels with decorative sticking, glasses in different shapes, and lite frames. The possibilities are endless and most elements can be mixed and matched to suit your taste!
1. Enchanted Entrance
Exterior wood doors with iron strap hinges look magical combined with stone or brick walls, particularly so if they are covered by ivy or climbing roses.
2. Americana Style
Adding decorative glass in a rectangular shape to a ¼ lite wooden door with flat panels looks great, particularly for Americana style houses with horizontal exterior paneling.
3. Brick Castle
This round wooden door with raised panels and decorative sticking is painted a deep navy that looks almost black contrasted with the reddish bricks of the wall.
4. Walnut Double Entrance
A double door adds a baronial feel to any entrance. This ½ lite door also has raised panels with decorative sticking and what appears to be an ornate brass thumb latch.
5. Stone Cabin
A black ¼ lite black door looks positively striking on a white door frame that matches the decorative windows all around it. Side windows in the house match the style perfectly.
6. Topiary Porch
A twin set of topiaries stand guard over a matching green fiberglass door with white frame and marble sill for a touch of added elegance.
7. Red Londonite
Two fixed sidelites with rectangular glass windows frame this striking red door, with a top round transom and detailed brickmould on its outer edge.
8. Contrasting Sidelites
Exterior wood doors in contrasting colors seem to be all the rage in recent years. Keeping the sidelites matching the rest of the house helps to soften the effect.
9. Decorative Windowed Door
Doors with a lot of glass windows look dainty and sophisticated. Particularly so when the sidelites accompany the design of the ¾ lite main door.
10. Minimal Zen Facade
Decorative glass is a great option when going for a modern style, coupled with timber or bamboo and dark colors it creates a very Asian and austere facade.
11. Urbanite Entrance
Sturdy and resilient is the word in this fiberglass ½ lite door with a venting sidelite with one thin rectangular window.
12. Art Deco Facade
This beautiful deco door has a rectangular transom with decorative glass and matching fixed sidelites. The main door is painted a striking black that matches the darker shade of the glass.
13. Regal Entrance
This elegant vintage look preludes what can only be a house filled with antique furniture, artistic paintings on the walls, and crystal chandeliers, right?
14. White Americana Door
Sash-in-frame sidelites match the white door and other entrances and windows of the house for a perfect Americana look.
15. Accented Front Porch
You might think this wood ¼ lite door is very simple but it is more than enough considering the columns at the entrance of the porch, with stone bases.
16. Western Style Entrance
A beautiful oak wood door makes it impossible to spy the interior behind it, using privacy and decorative glass at the same time. It is a perfect solution if you don’t want visitors peeking through the door.
17. Turquoise Main Door
Want newcomers to spot your house easy peasy? Paint it turquoise, red, teal, or whatever other bright color strikes your fancy. You won’t regret it!
18. Modern Wooden Door
Exterior wood doors can adapt wonderfully to the style of your home. If you are into streamlined design simply make your sidelites into geometric glass shapes and add a push bar to your main door. Instant gamechanger.
