Want to know why the front door is the most important part of your home? It’s because the front door is the “mouth” of your home.
A house takes in its food and nourishment through the front door.
The first thing to do is to look at is where the door is. Is it facing the street? The side? Or is it ’round the back?
Ideally, you want your front door to be facing the street so that energy and opportunities can easily come off the road and to your door. However, if you don’t have that luxury and your front door is hidden on the side. Hence, you can always put lights or plants all the way from the street to the door. Your goal is to direct the energy to your “hidden front door.”
If you happen to live in an apartment and have to make your way through dark hallways in order to get to your door. Therefore, make sure that between the entrance to the building and your front door there is a clear pathway.
You can put a few plants along the corridor leading to your front door. If that is not possible, then perhaps you can put one or two outside your own door, so that your energy is lifted when you see your home.
Curb Appeal
The first thing that catches your eye and the last thing you see when you leave, the front door, is a centrepiece of your house. There are a few things that you can do to boost the curb appeal of your house, upgrading the front door is one of those things.
Your front door design, condition, and colour are extremely important for curb appeal. A wrong design decision could sink the visual appeal before someone even steps foot inside.
Therefore, it is important to have one that is not only aesthetically pleasing to you and complements the architecture of the home, but one that is strong, secure, and will stand the test of time.
Maintenance
The front door is generally the most used door of a home and requires the right components and construction to make it last. Traditionally doors were always made from wood, and a majority still are. However, technologies have changed to allow for other compositions that require less maintenance. Wood doors can be beautiful, but they require lots of upkeep such as cleaning and refinishing every few years.
Currently, the market moved to steel-clad doors for a number of years, and they are still a commonly used product due to their low cost. But these doors give poor energy performance, and also lack durability. If you run into a metal door or bump it with a hard object, the door can be forever dented.
Installation
Another key component to a strong front door that has the most lasting effect on the future of the door’s performance is its installation. You can have the best door in the world, but if it isn’t installed correctly it will be less energy efficient, harder to use. And will give the door abnormal wear which may cause additional problems down the road.
You want to use a professional installer who knows what’s involved in ‘hanging’ a door. A good installer will use the proper tools for the job. The correct screws for the application, a proper membrane to make sure the frame of the house is protected, the right flashing to ensure rainwater is draining away from the house, and proper insulation to make your door as draft-proofed and energy-efficient as possible.
Security
Why else should you invest in your front door? For the safety and security of you and your family. A common way a thief will break through a door is to break it. A great way to defend against that is to make your door an out-swing door. There are a number of additional options your door professional can offer you to add to the strength of your door, such as a striker plate, keyed ball bearing hinges, or multi-point hardware.