The front of your home sends a message to everyone driving by or visiting your home. It is a welcome that speaks to your style, your taste and your preferences. With a log home, a cabin or even a rustic farm-style home, creating a natural yet unique look to a door can be particularly challenging if you are limited to today’s modern styles and designs.
For a more balanced and harmonious look with the exterior designs of log homes, cabins and farm-style homes, the different styles of rustic front doors are the perfect match. These doors are solid and dependable looking, giving a feeling of a warm welcome that is only possible with traditional designs and the look of natural wood.
Carved Wood
A classic look in a rustic door for the front of your home is a carved door. These can depict images of nature and become a true work of art for the front of your home. The best companies offering these types of doors will use the traditional method of hand carving to create the amazing detailed designs in their stock or custom ordered doors.
Popular options include scenes of elk, deer, bears, geese or ducks, forested landscapes, mountains and other images. Of course, you can also choose your own image and create a custom carved door that will be truly one of a kind.
These doors can include a full panel carving or a half panel carving. Either option provides an eye-catching option. These can be stained using a natural color to highlight the wood colors and styles, or they can be custom stained to match your home.
Wood and Glass
While many of the rustic front doors are solid wood, there are wood panel and glass door options that are also a perfect option for any type of home. These doors can offer the look of a French door or have a series of smaller panes in the top third or half of the door.
Other combinations of glass and wood, or even a solid wood panel door, are also perfect for all home styles. They can be paired with a full sidelites to add additional light to the interior of the entrance and to expand the look of the front of the home from both inside and the outside.
Talking to a specialized door manufacturer will help you to get an idea of the possibilities for your home. The hard part is then going to be trying to narrow down the choices to just one.
