The modern British home is filled with items that we don’t spend much of our time thinking about – that is, until the day that they malfunction. And there are few pieces of equipment that fit this description more closely than a internal door handle. When they’re working, they largely get taken for granted. When […]
How to Decorate your Door for Christmas
Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without the trimmings and decorations that set the season apart from the rest of the year. Install a tree into your living room during April, and your friends and family might begin to think you peculiar. Fail to do so during December and you’ll likely inspire the same reaction. The […]
What’s the Difference between Solid Wood, Engineered, and a Veneer Door?
When you’re shopping for a door, it’s easy to get bogged down in considerations about how the door looks. If you’re shopping online, then this is understandable, as you’ll be gleaning your first impressions from an intangible image of the product, rather than from touching, pushing and pulling it. But perhaps just as important as […]
Preparing your Doors for Winter Weather: Avoid Winter Door Problems
Winter is a season that can have a seriously deleterious effect on your home and the items within it. Among the most important of these items are doors – of both the internal and external variety. In response to the changing climate, wooden doors exhibit a range of symptoms, which, if not addressed, will steadily […]
Traditional Doors: How to Create a Period Look
If you’re the owner of a period property, then you’ll want to make sure that your choice of front door is appropriate. After all, a brilliant-white uPVC door is going to undermine the look of an otherwise Victorian cottage. If you’re to achieve consistency and avoid your property’s exterior looking like a confused mess, then […]
The Top 10 Colours for Front Doors
Of all of the doors in your home, it’s the front door that visitors will see first – and so special consideration should be given to choosing the appropriate colour. Traditionally, certain colours carry certain symbolic weight and significance. Some of these traditions come in a heavily-structured set of guidelines, such as those found in […]
Stress Reducing House Moving Hacks
Moving house can be exciting, especially if you’re moving somewhere you feel is bigger or better. It might be something you’re doing to relieve daily problems like not having enough space, shortening the commute to work or moving closer to friends and family. So just why do we need to reduce the stress of moving […]
The Door Dictionary: Door Terminology Explained
In whatever field you find yourself stumbling into in life, there will undoubtedly be a fair amount of jargon to decode before you can truly understand what’s going on. Jargon is the lingo we use in order to make ourselves feel like experts, when in actuality, all it does is distance us from one another. […]
Wooden Door Troubleshooting: Warping, Cracks & Common Problems
Wooden doors are not only beautiful and strong, but each one is as unique as a snowflake. No one door will ever be exactly the same as another, and perhaps it’s for this very reason that they have spent literally hundreds of years as the favoured means of entry for homes and places of business […]
