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How to Choose the Right Front Door for your Home

Styling Tips·Naomi Findlay·May 9, 2025· 2 minutes

Let’s talk about doors!

Specifically, your front door. You can tell a lot about the house by just the front door. It is the setting of the tone and vibe of your house without even entering inside.

From timber ones, to steel even to fiberglass– there are endless options and colours of doors to choose from!

Choosing the right door for your home can often be quite difficult and daunting. What style do you want to represent the front of your home? Is it secure enough, from stopping someone unwanted from entering in?

Today, we share our tips on what to think about before changing your front door.

Naomi Findlay Shares tips on Front Doors

STYLE:

When choosing the right front door for you, you need to think about what type of style you’re after.

What type of story am I trying to tell? How do I want to represent my home?

This is the time you really need to think outside the box.

Jump online, get onto Pinterest or Instagram and check out the amazing doors that are available for you.

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Image via Norsu Interiors

PURPOSE:

Lets face it our doors serve a purpose.

In terms of choosing are front door, we need to consider security.

Making sure that you’re choosing a solid core external door that can keep someone from breaking in.

MATERIAL:

Whether choosing a more traditional or contemporary style for your front door, changing what type of material can impact the look.

Nowadays you can get doors made of pretty much anything from steel or fiberglass synthetics and naturally beautiful timber.  

COLOUR:

Often people stray a way from bright and bold colours.

However, we often forget that our doors don’t always have to be black or white even brown.

There is a whole array of colours available that will work with the neutrals and greys and creams façade of our houses.

So, our top tip is be bold and creative.

Colours are a great way to express and set a tone to the rest of your house!

Front Door Using Soft Apricot Pink.

To watch the full video on changing a front door, click the link below and check out our latest videos on our Youtube page!