A curious title to an article on a doors website indeed but the qualities you really want from a new external door are not that dissimilar to those of Ian Flemming's famous character. The perfect front door should have a stylish and classic look, it is after all the first thing that greets friends when they arrive. However it also greets unknowns to the house so should command a sense of strength to deter intruders but without affecting it’s looks, a kind of 007 on hinges is a neat way to summarise it then.
What to Look for in a front door?
An external door is something you should only have to buy one of for any house and if its properly taken care of it should comfortably outlive any other fixture or fitting except the bricks and mortar it’s attached to. But what are the needs a front door must meet? Well first and foremost it must be secure and hard wearing. If the movies are to be used as research the only places being broken in to via the floors and walls are banks and as any Police officer will tell you the weakest links in the home security chain are the windows and doors. This is how all break-ins unfortunately occur. However, single pane windows have now been replaced with double glazing in the majority of homes in the UK and the offer of packaged deals has meant many home owners have chosen to replace original wooden doors with plastic UVC ones. These plastic doors and windows are in most cases considerably more secure than their flimsy predecessors which for a house with no worthy external features is fine but for a characterful home the owner cherishes there is a problem.
Whilst the family silver maybe safe it is the character of the house that will be stolen in the process. Home designers agree that a period home such as a 1930’s property is disfigured when the front door of the 21st century is forced on to the doorway from the early 20th century and colouring a plastic UVC door brown fools no one. The ideal solution therefore is to find a wooden door that protects and enhances the character feel of our British architecture whilst underneath hiding rock solid modern engineering that boosts security for the home and it’s contents. A good example of this would be an External Cheltenham 1930’s Engineered Oak Front Door. Sturdy, hard wearing yet with authentic hand cut glazed decorative windows it will enhance the character of the house it is selected for yet with none of the down sides the older wooden doors suffer from.
The 1930’s Engineered Oak Glazed Front Door delicately conceals it’s modern engineering behind the utterly authentic rails, panel and glazed window yet still manages to exude the quiet sense of strength mentioned in the first paragraph. Classicly stylish with a quiet sense of understated strength. Sound familiar Miss Moneypenny?
Strong, Stylish, Classic and Licensed to Thrill
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