The main door is the first element you see when you arrive in an apartment or a house. Very often, it is difficult to show originality when living in an apartment; the legislation does not always allow doing what we want. However, when you are the owner and more than that it is a house we are talking about, and then it is possible to let your imagination free to embellish this essential component of your dwelling. It is not necessarily something expensive and that can have a significant impact on your home, especially when you’re trying to resell it.

Discover here some ideas for your main door makeover:

1/ Traditional, the color

It is surely the cheapest option, the simplest and the fastest to set up, the one of playing with the colors. Choose an exterior painting that resists to the bad weather and of course a painting adapted to materials of your door. Beforehand, you can polish your door in order to remove the old drops of painting, the notches and the bumps.

In term of colors, almost everything is allowed, if you are not in a protected sector or near a historic building. You can choose pastel colors if your house is out of clear wood, bright colors for houses with the contemporary architecture, the choices are numerous!




2/ Raw, metal

Fashionable and very contemporary at the same time, choosing metal will give an artisanal look to the entry of your house. The current trend is the industrial style with a mixture of various metals, waxed concrete, bricks and visible zinc beams. Black steel is also trendy, although the stainless steel and copper main doors cannot eve become out of fashion. Wood matches very well with this raw material to give an effect design and warm effect at the same time.



3/ Bright, the glass

You can consider the installation of a main door with two parts out of which only one part allows access into the house, the other part being transformed into a fixed panel of glass. This solution allows the light to invite itself widely in the space of reception.

The glass can take various colors, it can also be shimmering to offer more intimacy to the owners, enabling them to see outside without being visible from the street. It will be possible for you also to play with the composition of this glass, to confer it a checkmate, blurred or colored aspect.

4/ Industrial, steel

To go further in the industrial style and for a resolutely trendy look, the new wave of the architects is the atrium way main door. The combination of a steel grid with glass offers at the same time light and style to your entry. It will be possible for you to play with the forms, on the lines and the effect will be always a success!

5/ Animated, the pivot

Here it is not so much the textures or the colors that make the charm of these doors, but the movement. By fixing your main door on an axis from the floor up to the ceiling, rather than choosing a hinge fixed at the wall, you will allow your door to swivel on itself. Often, this kind of system is set up for doors having a certain weight but in any case, we must admit that the end result is very successful!