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Home designers through the ages have always sensed the need for the extra bit of quality and luxury provided by arched front doors and they are now available to you in much more durable forms than your ancestors ever saw.
Nothing gives a home that special sense of class like arched front doors. Modern composite doors can be shaped into many different kinds of arch, whether it's a fanlight over a single door or arched French doors.
Stylish Possibilities Consider the possibilities. Of course you have a choice of a broad range of colours for your arched front door, and they will be textured with a pleasing wood grain effect. Don't forget that the doorframe can be of an entirely different colour; this can add interest to your home.
And then there's the design itself. Do you want the doors themselves to be arched, or would you like a rectangular door with a fanlight? As long as you're considering a fanlight, how about a sidelight? You could have it on just one side for an interesting asymmetrical effect, or on both sides for that classic look. You could choose a basket top so that the arch extends down the sides of your door and ends a metre or so above the ground; or you might like a keyhole, which goes even farther down but still ends shy of the doorjamb.
Given adequate space, you might choose French doors. You could still choose arched front doors with this idea, or you could choose the same kind of fanlight and sidelight options as we have already discussed.
If you are to have glass in your arched front doors, this presents many possibilities as well. Clear glass goes well with many doors, or you could choose any of a number of different obscured glass. Some doors have details that look like crystal, and some have blinds actually inside the double glazing, so that they never need to be cleaned!
Hardware styles can provide the perfect complement for your arched front doors. Would you like a mail slot? Choose a white, black, chrome, brass, or brushed finish, and don't forget that you get to choose that mail slot's placement. Door levers and lever pads come in the same finishes, as do knockers.
Never forget that you are limited by very little in your choice of arched front doors, and never accept less than the ideal design that you envision.
Find your perfect arched door by checking out the great range of composite doors and cottage doors available to buy online.
