People buy custom exterior wood doors for a number of reasons, and the priorities differ depending on what the buyer deems most important.
Some may be swayed by its durability. Others may be tempted by its high natural insulating properties. Others may still feel that giving their home a truly unique look is the most important factor.
Having custom exterior wood doors designed and installed is one thing, and it will almost certainly give your home a unique style right on your street, but it’s the extra trimmings that make the real difference.
However, if the design elements you are adding to your exterior doors are the same as the others, the custom element you paid for will be lost behind them.
You need trim as unique as your wooden exterior doors.
And if you need ideas, you should keep reading.
Fancy flower holders
Hanging foliage on wooden exterior doors is nothing new, as we see with wreaths during every holiday season, but neither holly nor mistletoe look as good in warmer months.
The brightly colored blooms bring life, energy, and the joys of spring into your home, and the bunches can be stored on your front door until early fall.
However, what will really set your home apart is the receptacle you use to hold them.
There are a number of brilliant, cheap and unique options. Some of which you may already have somewhere in your home.
Children’s rain boots, folded umbrellas, or even old watering cans can add a colorful or rustic touch to your door when filled with real or even artificial flowers.
Other door frame
If you are an artistic person, or even a family, and want to give visitors a clue as to the type of home they are entering, consider hanging an empty but otherwise decorated picture frame on your front door.
Artificial or real flowers can be used again to add color and life to your exterior wood doors by incorporating them into your picture frame designs, while dried or fabric flowers will give a more vintage or rustic look.
Cut out wooden letters can be used to give a positive message to visitors or even passersby, while numbers can be used to help these visitors or delivery people locate your home.
Alternatively, a mirror can be attached to the frame. This is an especially useful addition if you have friends who you suspect would like to do their hair before you open the door for them.
Leave a message
When choosing unique trim for your wooden exterior doors, you may very well change your mind after a while and want to change the look or message that your door is giving to visitors.
However, when hanging a chalkboard, your decorative addition will already have this functionality.
Leave a message for your expecting visitors, an inspirational quote to lift the spirits of passersby, or just your house number when you have nothing more to say.
The slates on the wooden exterior doors can also be used to leave messages for non-social visitors. This can be so that expected delivery people call a number in case you are not there, or so that unsolicited callers do not disturb you when you are.
If you are shopping for wood exterior doors to take advantage of its bespoke style, adding an ordinary décor will negate its inherent unique appearance.
To make sure they stand out as much as possible, get creative with what you hang from them with some of these unique embellishments.