Arched or Square, Smooth or Textured??

The next time you go into someone house take a look at their front door, I know it's strange, but once you've really looked at it try to guess how long it took them to pick out.  Whether the people you are visiting are the original pickers or they purchased the home existing, someone picked the door.  Someone walked into that door shop and had an anxiety attack because there were sooo many options and they just knew that their husband was not going to agree with anything they liked.  Okay, maybe that someone was me and it was my husband that was standing next to me at the Wheelwright Lumber door shop.  Still, doors are harder to pick than you might think.

The house is going to be light grey stucco with grey rock so white was the logical choice for entry door color, we both agreed on that point.  We went on our lunch to pick a front door and interior doors.  Ha!  After about 10 minutes it was clear there was no way we were picking doors this afternoon.  The salesman was very nice and patient.  There were wood doors (if you're a millionaire), fiberglass doors (these seemed nice), and steel doors (Mark's choice).  Textured doors (NO), smooth doors (very nice). And the panels...  Six, four, two...  Square or arched?

And then there was the glass.  How much do you want?  Whole door?  Half the door?  How opaque do you want to go?  Yes, these are the questions that nice man was asking.  Do you think we had any idea what the answers were?  Hell no!  After about twenty minutes we decided to take the catalogs with us and contemplate at home, unfortunately reality tv is at home which is not helpful when you should be making decisions.

I have decided on Craftsman style for the front door and interior doors.  The back deck door will have the blinds in between the glass so that one should be easy.  For those of you who don't know what Craftsman is, it's the type where there is a square on top and then generally there are long rectangle panels under it.  Craftsman is apparently squares and columns.  Usually one to one and a half stories.  I guess we are craftsman type people because that pretty much describes our house.  Here are a few samples:

 

Now I just have to get Mark to focus for five minutes and we might have a decision.

 

Shingles, stucco, and rock are the next decisions that need to be made in the next few days.  Let's hope this goes smoother than the doors.  I'm sure doors are really the least of our disputes with each other.  Kandis is no help, she thought we were nuts when we asked her opinion on the front door, so much for involving her.  She's a little pre-occupied with her first dance coming up on Thursday.

 

Meanwhile on the building front, framing should start tomorrow 7 am...  We'll see,  I'm not holding my breath, nothing else has really started on time with this whole building project.