I'm looking for a door...

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Tegan, I had the urge for a new front door, and had it fitted in the summer. Here is a photo, the middle one, from the brochure. It is a dark anthracite colour, composite material, and is white on the inside.

Someone was handing out leaflets from a double glazing firm at Wickes a while back. I arranged for someone to come out and give me a quote but when I said it was only for one door and I didn't want it doing immediately they decided not to come. I think the doors were aluminium and that would have sorted out the worry of another dog eating it.

I thought from the thread title that you couldn't find the latest door on your Advent Calendar

Have you tried one of the very large double glazing firms who also do doors? (It begins with A).i think they might have what you are looking for and they can fit to any doorspace.

Oh joy; DD gave me the number of her joiner and he says he knows exactly what I want and he can supply it. She says he's a real craftsman and always prefers to work with good quality stuff. Dread to think how much it's going to cost, though#gettingquiteexcited

Is your joiner very young?
My husband asked a young man to help him fit our new kitchen as he can’t lift like he used to.
I think the young man learnt a lot.

Our windowsills were always white even with brown wood inside. Then we painted the wood frames white inside too until they got too bad and had to be changed.

I think if it had originally been painted white inside it would have been ok. At one time we had brown upstairs and white downstairs; dread to think what the neighbours thought about it! Condensation has made some of the inside wood a bit grungy so I think painting it might open a can of worms. Most of the windows have blinds on them so I only see the window sill. I could actually paint those white perhaps.

We had dark brown wood but it was soft wood and we had to replace them all. I don't really like PVC but we couldn't afford hardwood.
We have brown outside and white inside - I never thought of it being odd. It does mean that indoors is lighter, especially the hall with white inside and brown outside blends in with the rest of the houses in the road.
But I do want a wooden front door.

All of my windows are dark brown solid wood and I would love to replace them with white Upvc; the dark brown draws all the colour out of a room. I could paint the inside woodwork white but the wood just has to be stained and it is low maintenance [and having brown outside and white inside would trigger my ocd tendancy]. But I do like doors to be wood if possible [although I'm constantly having to shave bits off the front door so I can get in]. What has caused all this is that, when the S.O. bought a little house in Northumberland he gave me free rein to decorate it, so I stay in a house that I'm really happy with and then come home to my own house that's desperately in need of refurbishment and I don't have the expertise or cash to do what I want to.

This thread has made me realise that I'd like a new front door - and a new back door

Definitely a new front door, I find ours rather tacky; it was done when we had the double glazing done.
(goes to chat to DH, you may all hear the inevitable NO!)

It may prove easier to actually move house, one with a door you like.

That is one attractive door. I didn't even realise I wanted to change ours till I saw it.

When we were first married a local joiner made us a door to my specifications, postbox red with a brass letterbox. He had reservations as all the doors around were much plainer and all white, but he liked it so much he ended up making a similar one for his own house!

I have this door as a back door but it is white Upvc, I chose it deliberately because previous wooden doors warped, cracked and jammed on a regular basis. Five years ago I changed everything in the house to low maintenance and boy was it the right decision.

My neighbours had a similar problem to me in that they wanted a new front door but couldn't ever find quite what they wanted [they said that one day they were driving somewhere and saw just what they wanted but, like me couldn't find where to get it from]. Annoyingly, the people that have moved into their house have had all the doors replaced and I'm sure there were doors in that house that I would have loved. They were all gone by the time I realised what was happening.

Painful, that Granny23!

How can people call themselves JOINERS if they can only fit ready-made doors? My DH when he was working made many bespoke doors for customers, but when our own front door needed replaced he ordered a bog standard one from Wicks and trimmed it to fit. I asked why I couldn't have the customised door that I wanted and was told that as I was only a poor joiner's wife, I couldn't afford a bespoke door.

Knowing my luck they'd take the door with them ...

You could go round looking for a door you like, then knock on it and offer them a price for the house

...actually, the window isn't square, is it....

It was in Alnmouth lemon, so nearly in Scotland. It's so frustrating. I don't want a pattern in the glass; the glass has to be square and I want it in solid pine, not veneer or composite. I've got so many things in the house that are not quite right, so this has to be spot on. the daft thing is that, as it's a kitchen door hardly anyone will ever see it except me. At least I know it's called a 'cottage door', which is a start.

Wickes have some that are similar, not quite the same though:
www.wickes.co.uk/Products/Doors+Windows/External-Doors/Front+Back-Doors/External-Timber-Doors/c/1000649?q=%3AtopSellers&show=All&perPage=15

www.theenglishdoorcompany.com/english_door_company/cottage-doors

It looks like a Scottish door to me.Is it?
Try a Scottish firm, if so?

I'm sure 'next door' have a similar door iyswim!
If I remember I will take a look tomorrow. What a pity, I have already posted their Christmas card, I could have inspected it then.

J52.Even when the glass has go a crack right across the middle and it's held together with that patterned sticky stuff you can buy at Homebase? Mind you, I can market the house as having genuine 1960's plywood doors ..