4 Popular Types of Front Doors

Your front door doesn’t need to be boring. In fact, upgrading your front door can impact how your house feels, inside and out. Whether you want it to be a showpiece or a style supplement, there are more trending types of front doors than ever before.

At Choice Home Remodeling, we’re the Lancaster home improvement company that installs the doors that transform your home. In our latest blog, we’re breaking down the most popular types of front doors, including craftsman, modern, and more. Read on to find your front door style — or request your in-home consultation & quote today!

Most-Common Front Door Designs

A bland and ordinary front door is a huge wasted opportunity to show the world your sense of style. Whether you’re watching HGTV or driving through Lancaster County, you’ll see countless gorgeous front door designs. Explore some of our favorites and find the one that best complements your sense of home style:

Craftsman Door — One of the most popular types of front doors on the market today, the Craftsman style goes with much more than just a Craftsman style house. You can recognize this style from the raised panels in the center of the door frame as well as the top glass panels. Generally, those signature panels are built from a leaded style of privacy glass. In addition to the standard Craftsman style front door design, the shaker style of Craftsman doors features flat panels for a simpler look.

Craftsmen style front door

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Ornate Door – A true style-showstopper, ornate doors are easily recognized by their use of decorative glass on the door frame itself. This type of front door matches very well with both colonial and farmhouse aesthetics. Primarily, ornate doors are ¾ light, meaning that about 75% of the door is glass. The glass patterns come in a huge variety of geometric, curved, and even flowery shapes. Ornate doors also add to their decorative style of glass with metal caming in black nickel, silver, or brass to blend with the hardware or light fixture accents. For maximum safety, all of the ornate doors we install are built with a handmade piece of glass between two pieces of safety glass.

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Modern Door — A front door design that you’ll either love or loathe, modern style doors are plain and function without paneling or molding. That doesn’t mean they are anywhere close to plain, though! You’ll be able to recognize these doors by their small, square windows running down the frame. While 3 or 5 windows are the main modern door style, some options feature a full light pane of glass.

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Solid door — A simple and practical door, this style doesn’t feature any glass but is instead a piece of solid steel or fiberglass. This option provides maximum privacy, yet can still look very attractive. While you don’t have the options for glass with this front door design, you can still customize the pattern of the panels. Generally, homeowners like to match the panel pattern with their interior doors —whether it’s a 6-panel, a 4-panel, or a 2-panel door, we have it. Plus, since the Craftsman door style is so popular right now, we also offer solid Craftsman-style doors that feature panels instead of the signature windows.

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Fiberglass Vs. Steel Doors

While picking your preferred style is essential when looking through all the types of front doors, the material is another important factor to consider. The two main door materials on the market are steel and fiberglass. While both options can look and perform extremely well, we prefer fiberglass — approximately 90% of the doors we install are fiberglass doors.

These are the main differences between steel and fiberglass doors:

Durability — While both steel and fiberglass doors are strong, fiberglass doors are more durable than their steel counterparts.
Warranty — The fiberglass doors we install come with an unbeatable lifetime warranty. On the other hand, steel doors often have a 5 or 10-year warranty.
Authenticity — If an authentic looking wooden door is your style, fiberglass features a convincing and beautiful wood grain. Steel doors look nice, too, but they just can’t truly mimic wood.
Price — Steel doors are still the most budget-friendly option that can give you very reliable performance.

Ultimately, both steel and fiberglass doors are each a great option – however, the advantages of fiberglass make it the popular choice for our area.

Getting new windows too? Learn about the trending window styles.

Explore Our Showroom and See All of Our Types of Front Doors

Seeing all of these gorgeous different types of doors —and finding your favorite — is the first step to changing your home. However, if you want to take a more hands-on approach, we’d like to invite you to visit our local showroom.

You can peruse our inventory of gorgeous entry doors and get a feel for exactly what you’d like. Plus, our exteriors designers will be there to help you refine your project and find the perfect fit. Feel free to drop by!

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I recently hired Choice to replace 12 windows and a sliding glass door in my home, and they did excellent work. I want to provide this review for anyone in the Lancaster County area looking for new windows: save yourself some trouble and just hire Choice. The original windows and sliding door in my house were cheap builder grade units that were ~25 years old and all failing in one way or another. I did my due diligence and requested quotes from five different contractors, including a big box home improvement store and a couple of the national window chains. To make a long story short, Choice was the best price, the best product, and the most comprehensive installation work! Everyone who I worked with at Choice, from the sales, finance, and install teams, was extremely friendly and professional. They installed wonderful, PA-made Okna windows and doors, and they installed them properly; no shortcuts taken (unlike some of the other contractors who I received quotes from). The install team were great; they had all the work done in exactly the time they quoted, and they were very mindful of being as clean as they could. They also informed me that some of the existing windows were installed very poorly, with very little insulation and flashing. They installed the new windows correctly, and the difference was immediate and incredible. I could not be happier with the work they did and the products they provide. The new windows and door at my house are such a huge improvement over the old ones. If you're looking for a contractor for your next home improvement project, look no further!

Response from the owner:Thank you, Devon, for the wonderful review! We work hard to provide not only quality products and expert installation, but also an easy and helpful experience from the very first contact. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share about your experience with us!

Choice Remodeling was professional from start to finish. They were prompt, informative and did excellent work replacing the windows in our whole house. I would recommend them for any job!

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The new storm door with roll up screen and the new sliding door for our deck look wonderful. The sales person, Tim Simmers, was great to work with and the men doing the installation work were terrific. I will be using Choice Home Remodeling for all my future projects!

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I can't rave enough about my experience with Choice Home Remodeling! After a long search for a team that was not only professional and knowledgeable but also friendly and patient, I found exactly what I was looking for. Tim, Nate, and the entire crew did an outstanding job installing a new sliding door in place of an existing bay window on my block-style home. From start to finish, they answered all of my questions with confidence, kept me informed throughout the process, and completed the work with exceptional care and craftsmanship. Choice Home Remodeling earns my highest recommendation!

Response from the owner:Karen, thank you for your five star review and kind words. It was a pleasure working with you and we are happy to hear you felt the same way! Please let us know if there is any thing else we can partner with you on in the future.