Blinds between the glass, in a door that has to look old

Raise it, lower it, tilt it

The blind sits sealed between the panes. It raises, lowers and tilts. A magnetic switch on the inside works it.

She can drop it for privacy, tilt it to filter some of the sun, or close it all the way. There is no cord, and nothing hanging on the door to swing and bang.

Privacy in a side door, with the grids to match

Another customer had an old house and wanted a side door with glass and privacy. That one is a 7-0 door, so it is much taller than a normal door. We put a half lite in it with the blind between the glass.

All their windows had grids, so they wanted grids on the door. Those go between the glass too, with the blind, in an energy-efficient low-E unit. From the street it matches the windows.

Glass that looks like old glass

An architect brought us a stainable fiberglass door with a triangular transom he had designed above it. He wanted everything to read as wood, so the jambs are composite and stainable, and the whole door gets stained.

He also wanted the door light to look like individual pieces of glass. We did that with a simulated divided light bar. Look at it on an angle and you see a spacer bar between the panes. It is one sheet of low-E glass, and it looks like an old school door once it is stained.

One panel or two

The same thinking goes into the solid doors. Most doors come with two traditional panels, and that pushes a house toward a modern look. One customer wanted to match the old door, so we built it with one panel. It is unusual, and it took the house back to where it started.