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How to Create a Spectacular Welcome to Your Home
Make the entrance to your home something to remember with these simply stunning front door ideas
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It’s easy to overlook your home’s front door and entrance area – it’s not a space we tend to linger in, after all – but its significance is huge. The front door is more than a simple opening. It’s the first thing you and visitors see as you arrive, and offers an immediate taste of what you’ll find in the rest of the home. So, it’s important to consider the front door and the entrance space it opens onto as an integral part of the architecture and interior design of the entire house, and not just a place to be rushed through or ignored.
To create a spectacular welcome home every time you cross the threshold, consider whether your entrance design offers a good transition from outside to in. Does it reflect the architecture of your house, its period and dimensions and add something special to your home? Can it provide excellent levels of security, as well as looking beautiful? For Italian door specialist Oikos, these considerations are always on their list when they design their luxury, customised security doors. Read on to find out how these high-quality front doors could give your home the beautiful entrance it deserves.
To create a spectacular welcome home every time you cross the threshold, consider whether your entrance design offers a good transition from outside to in. Does it reflect the architecture of your house, its period and dimensions and add something special to your home? Can it provide excellent levels of security, as well as looking beautiful? For Italian door specialist Oikos, these considerations are always on their list when they design their luxury, customised security doors. Read on to find out how these high-quality front doors could give your home the beautiful entrance it deserves.
Go large
The modest proportions of the standard front door are so familiar and unremarkable to us, that installing something wider and higher instantly injects some unexpected ‘wow’ into your home, before you’ve even set foot inside. Large front doors create a feeling of spaciousness and height, combining solidity and style, while delivering practical benefits, too.
Large doors are heavier than standard front doors, so rather than traditional side hinges, they can open and close via a concealed vertical pivot, which suits a wider opening and removes any feeling of weight. Oikos’ safety doors with pivot openings can be designed as wide as 3,200mm and as high as 6,200mm – and motorised options are available for effortless opening, too.
The modest proportions of the standard front door are so familiar and unremarkable to us, that installing something wider and higher instantly injects some unexpected ‘wow’ into your home, before you’ve even set foot inside. Large front doors create a feeling of spaciousness and height, combining solidity and style, while delivering practical benefits, too.
Large doors are heavier than standard front doors, so rather than traditional side hinges, they can open and close via a concealed vertical pivot, which suits a wider opening and removes any feeling of weight. Oikos’ safety doors with pivot openings can be designed as wide as 3,200mm and as high as 6,200mm – and motorised options are available for effortless opening, too.
Get creative with surfaces
Rather than the conventional painted or varnished wood finish, a front door made with a unique material can do lots to boost the welcome to your home, creating surprise and interest as you enter.
High-end security doors can be clad with decorative panels in a wide range of materials, including wood, natural stone, metal, lacquer, giant ceramic slabs, back-painted glass and mosaic. These materials can even be mixed together on the same door surface, with custom finishes also available. This door, for instance, is finished on the interior side with statuary white Laminam, a specialist ceramic slab.
Rather than the conventional painted or varnished wood finish, a front door made with a unique material can do lots to boost the welcome to your home, creating surprise and interest as you enter.
High-end security doors can be clad with decorative panels in a wide range of materials, including wood, natural stone, metal, lacquer, giant ceramic slabs, back-painted glass and mosaic. These materials can even be mixed together on the same door surface, with custom finishes also available. This door, for instance, is finished on the interior side with statuary white Laminam, a specialist ceramic slab.
Bring light in
We all understand the value of natural light in our homes. It creates a feeling of space and airiness that boosts our wellbeing, and it’s positive effects can be felt just as much in the entrance space as in the kitchen or living room.
Dark, cramped halls don’t create a good first impression, becoming somewhere to be passed through at speed, rather than an interior moment all of their own. Conversely, a bright, light hallway produces a feeling of welcome and calm. So, rather than the traditional solid door, consider a glass front door, which will flood the entryway with light, creating a dialogue between the interior and exterior spaces.
For an even lighter effect, consider fitting glass panels around the door and above. Once inside, this combination of glazing draws the eye up and out, enhancing the feeling of space. A pivoting safety door can be created with glass in any size. The glass is specially designed with break-in resistance for safety and security, as well as offering high-specification thermal and acoustic performance.
We all understand the value of natural light in our homes. It creates a feeling of space and airiness that boosts our wellbeing, and it’s positive effects can be felt just as much in the entrance space as in the kitchen or living room.
Dark, cramped halls don’t create a good first impression, becoming somewhere to be passed through at speed, rather than an interior moment all of their own. Conversely, a bright, light hallway produces a feeling of welcome and calm. So, rather than the traditional solid door, consider a glass front door, which will flood the entryway with light, creating a dialogue between the interior and exterior spaces.
For an even lighter effect, consider fitting glass panels around the door and above. Once inside, this combination of glazing draws the eye up and out, enhancing the feeling of space. A pivoting safety door can be created with glass in any size. The glass is specially designed with break-in resistance for safety and security, as well as offering high-specification thermal and acoustic performance.
Make it seamless
The most beautiful entrances work seamlessly with the architecture of your home, its materials and proportions. Modernist homes might favour a clean, minimalist design that lets the door disappear into the wall, becoming almost a discovery when it’s opened. In a period property, a beautiful, high-specification modern door can introduce an exciting twist of contemporary design, if sensitively customised to reference or complement the materials and local vernacular of the building.
All Oikos security doors are fully customisable, so you can choose the size, finish and details, ensuring that the finished design perfectly blends in with your home.
Discover more high quality front doors on the Oikos website.
Tell us…
Which of these doors would look work for your property? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
The most beautiful entrances work seamlessly with the architecture of your home, its materials and proportions. Modernist homes might favour a clean, minimalist design that lets the door disappear into the wall, becoming almost a discovery when it’s opened. In a period property, a beautiful, high-specification modern door can introduce an exciting twist of contemporary design, if sensitively customised to reference or complement the materials and local vernacular of the building.
All Oikos security doors are fully customisable, so you can choose the size, finish and details, ensuring that the finished design perfectly blends in with your home.
Discover more high quality front doors on the Oikos website.
Tell us…
Which of these doors would look work for your property? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
Oikos has been manufacturing security doors in Gruaro, near Venice. The company is well-known in the national and... Continua a leggere
Oikos has been manufacturing security doors in Gruaro, near Venice. The company is well-known in the national and... Continua a leggere
While these ideas are great for large spaces perhaps an article on tiny entrance halls would be interesting?