Should Adjacent Exterior Doors Match?
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Exterior door style - should it match interior door style?
Comments (4)I think its more important that the interior doors should match the interior style, than the exterior style (assuming your interior style is vastly different than the exterior). If its the doors I'm thinking, the interior door you like is a very contemporary/modern frosted slab door. Are the furnishings and finishes inside the house going to be on the modern side? The exterior door is very rustic/French Country/European, and goes very well with almost every other interior door on that page (the doors are mostly traditional), and works well with a traditional style interior, IMHO....See MoreShould the interior and exterior of a front door match?
Comments (5)Spanish cedar is fairly soft for a door. It's equivalent to white pine. It dents very easily. I would suggest Sapelle instead, it should be the same cost or perhaps a bit cheaper; the good Spanish Cedar has become hard to find. It was "plentiful and cheap" 10 years ago. Anyway, both of these woods exhibit wavy grain patterns that can create blotchiness. I would stain on top of a sealer coat to prevent this. Make sure the stain is light-fast (no dyes; earth pigments only) But with an exterior exposure you need a top coat with the highest amount of UV protection, so you aren't having to revarnish every year. With a top-quality varnish you can extend this to three years between re-coats. If you wait too long it will have to be stripped and start fresh. Aside: sapelle is quite a bit darker than Sp. Ced. to begin with, and a small amount of color will render an amazing mahgany or walnut color. Casey...See MoreShould the interior and exterior of a front door match?
Comments (3)I'm not an old house expert, but I'd be surprised if the outside on many old doors was the same as the inside; they would have made the outside more ornate, so folks could see it. The inside would probably be plainer. At least that's what I'd think....See MoreShould Front Entry Hardware and Exterior lighting finish match
Comments (1)Those items do not have to match, but they should correspond. And in this case I would not put ORB with reddish brown. If you're going to do two different metals that close to each other, they need to be different enough as to not look like you tried to match and failed. Either use the same metal or something strikingly different....See MoreDoug Hucker
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