Your best bet would be to call a garage door company who is willing to provide you with many options and variety. You are the customer and if they want your business, they won't mind spending time with you to help you with your purchase. Also I would recommend a company that uses more than one supplier.There are so many options out there today from custom reserve wood doors to carraige house barn door and a variety of wood and steel combination doors. If you are in the philadelphia area, I would highly recommend Arrow Door. They will spend the time to help educate you and assist you with your purchase. I have used them personally and highly recommend there services.

If you are using a storm door, make sure it has operable panels to vent. You'd be surprised at how much heat can build up between the entry and storm door with non venting storm doors even on moderate, sunny days southern exposure. Heat can be real hard on most any entry door type. Strom doors can actually help warm the house when facing south as a passive solar effect entry door open on certain days of the year. All dependent on your geographical location.

Thank you for choosing ProVia as your entry door choice. I am glad to assist you regarding your questions. First, let me explain that the fiberglass woodgrain texture feels and looks like a true woodgrain. It will take to a stain or paint beautifully giving your entry way a look of beauty and elegance. For an entryway, we recommend our fiberglass door. We have several glass options and stain options that will best complement your 'painted lady' home. Secondly, if you choose a textured steel woodgrain, it will have an embossed pattern that will look like woodgrain, but not a deep grain that the fiberglass woodgrain offers. Our steel doors are excellent for both security and beauty. Please visit our website to see all of the available door options you can choose from. You can also call our excellent customer service department to find a dealer nearest you. Our customer service is available Mon - Fri. 8am - 5pm Eastern Standard Time. Again, thank you for choosing ProVia. ProVia's Mission: To serve, by caring for details in ways others won�t Here is a link that might be useful: Signet entry doors

Ksc36 - I disagree with you about the composite door jambs. Do you actually have a door with them? I drank the marketing Kool-aid when I ordered my new door, and chose the composite door jambs that replaced the 25-year-old wood door jambs. I am wondering if you did same. The wood jambs are heavier, feel solid. The composite door jambs feel light, and not solid. I should have realized that the composite door thing is a way for door companies to charge more for something that is much cheaper for them to manufacture, and so they made up a bunch of hooey to make people buy them. Sounds great in the brochures though. The owner of the door contracting company told me he has begun steering his customers away from the composite jambs now that he's had some experience with them.