Thanks everyone. Still undecided, ugggg. I'm now thinking more toward the white with black hardware and larger, nicer, black lantern. DH wants the black door, but a part of me thinks I may regret it. We're buying it from a specialty store, not big box, so it's not something we can exchange. Not a fan of shutters at the door as a few other homes have them and never liked the look...for these homes anyway. Besides, we have plenty of shutters everywhere else. But thanks. I've never heard of a disappearing door. Unless I lived in a GRAND home, I couldn't think of not putting up a storm door. There are some homes around here without one, and IMO, I always think how it sucks to not be able to open the front door on a breezy day. Besides, I enjoy looking out the front door, I suppose, because I grew up in a row home and that's what we did - LOL. Thanks teacats for the advice. While Spring just sprang here, I don't have our garden goodies out and haven't planted any annuals yet. We won't be painting the porch swing, but, I can certainly give it some color with pillows. We planted that bush 2 years ago and it's taking forever for it to grow, but it doesn't help when the deer made a meal of it is winter. I think it would be a good idea to replace it with something larger too....we used to have a big azzalea there until it died. Any more comments, opinions, suggestion are welcome. Gotta make up my mind and get this door ordered.

We got our door at Home Depot, the Anderson door company and while I can't say it's THE BEST door, I can say I feel like it's performing to our expectations and I tend to get pretty nit picky about the products we buy. We've had it about 4 years now and it looks and works just as well now as it did the day we bought it. I've provided a link to the one we got, only difference is ours is all brushed nickel hardware. I haven't found it difficult to keep clean but then again, it's under a covered porch and we have no little ones (or dogs) running around to help with the dirt factor. I wouldn't call it high end, but it wasn't the cheapest route either. I love the hiding screen. Here is a link that might be useful: storm door.

They make a bolt and nut that may do the deal. I just can' t remember what they're called the bolt is standard but the nut is a "female" bolt one screws into the other. Some hardware stores sell something like a poptivet with threads. It goes through the hole in the aluminum frame and is ’squeezed’ to lock it in place then a threaded screw can be used to secure the closer I realize that this is an old thread but, for anyone who digs this out of the past.... The fasteners referred to in the two quotes above have many names: Often called Chicago Screws, Binder Bolts, sex bolts, barrel bolts, post and screw...to name a few. They are nifty fasters. Come in lots of sizes, can add extension posts to them. Available in a lot of different materials like plastic, steel, brass, copper. In the past, they were used to hold ledger pages in a ledger. Popular with leather crafters, knife makers (to hold the handles on knives, crafters, especially those who make books... I just used them to fasten lattice to a metal trellis frame--which is what led me to scrambling for a name for them. For a semi-permanent installation, it is a good idea to use a bit of Lock-Tite on the threads when you assemble.

This is easy to check. Disconnect both the closers and open the door. If it opens all the way, it was a closer. Reconnect one of the closers and test the door again. If it operates all the way, disconnect that closer and reconnect the other closer. One of them is probably bad. Call the company and have them send you another closer. Ron