If we lived on a busy street and our door was in direct eyesight of the street, I might not love having a glass front door. That being said, when the door rings, it's pretty visible from most spaces in our home so there's no hiding from anyone who is at the door. So, privacy of a front door with glass is not a problem for us. Our home is situated on the top of a small hill, away from the street. My Go-To Fake Front Porch Plants | Aged Zinc Outdoor Wall Sconce One potential negative of a front door with glass Click to read my privacy and disclosure policy. I'm so thrilled that we did this project. They allow so much more light in to our foyer. I'd honestly say yes just based on the way our glass entry doors look from the outside and the inside. Yes, especially if you are leaking heating/cooling and have other issues that can't be fixed by updating. It just didn't make sense to proceed forward with the old doors. It was going to be around $450 (2017 pricing) to get the front door glass installed and enlarged but then we had all the other issues to address.
You know, fixing for the time, being but not really fixing the problem.Īfter weighing our options, we ultimately decided that a front door glass replacement wasn't going to be the way to go for us. Some of those issues could have been fixed completely and some could have been fixed with "band-aids". Someone, at sometime, had installed interior doors (on accident?) as our double front entry doors. The chipping on the bottom could be fixed but, hilariously enough, the "exterior doors" weren't actually exterior doors. To help determine what our best course of action was on the exterior glass doors, we had a recommended custom door and millwork company come out to talk through the issues, what we wanted and all of our options.įrom them, we learned that the double "exterior doors" themselves also had problems. The glass panels were in good shape but they blocked all light in the foyer. The door window panes were higher-end, back in the day, but definitely not our style. LOLĪs you can see, the doors were dated and a bit rough looking in a few different ways. Let me just give you the beautiful visual so you can understand. I was hopeful still, that the wood doors could be salvaged but I wasn't sure. In the winter months, you can feel air coming through the doors. On top of those problems, in the summer months, the wood doors would stick together and be extremely difficult to pull apart. Another problem that I wanted to address was that someone installed the door hardware unaligned with each other. On the top of my list was to have our wooden front doors with glass updated by replacing the front door glass inserts. Another reason for doing this was that the storm doors just added more bulk and ugliness to the front porch.Ī few years after that, I set out to make some changes to both the foyer area and the front doors. Pretty early on in our home journey, I took off the storm doors (below) to see if that helped bring more light in to the foyer. Or, I knew it could be such a cool space with more light. They provided no light into our foyer, which is such a cool space with the circle staircase.
When we moved in to this house, I knew pretty early on that something had to be done about our original glass front doors. I'm obsessed with our new doors but to really appreciate them, keep reading to see where we started! The backstory on having low light issues with frosted glass front doors. Considering glass front doors but not sure on the what the front door replacement cost will be? What about changing the door glass size with door glass inserts? Sharing about our ¾ lite glass exterior doors and the process we considered when wanting a larger front door glass insert installed.
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