Why Every Project Needs a Statement Door
With each commercial design project, regardless of how big or small, you want to make your mark. Likewise, your clients want to leave an impression on all who visit or work in their building. There are numerous options for where to put the focus on the exterior of a building. Inside, a perfect opportunity to make a statement is with interior doors. Far more than simply functional, interior doors set a tone and style that affects how inhabitants experience a space. Let’s take a look at why and how a statement door enhances a design.
Make a Statement with Stile and Rail
Stile and rail doors make a smart investment for their combination of function and aesthetics. Wood stile and rail doors add a touch of luxury and class that works for everything from office buildings to medical facilities. They’re often a good choice when you’re trying to achieve historical authenticity. More importantly, however, you can customize them to fit just about any style or brand standards.
You can get different looks by customizing the number, shape and size of panels or replacing some of them with glass. A single stile and rail door, or a pair of them, can stand out as the entrance to a conference room or executive suite. Stile and rail doors look great in schools, as well, such as entry ways for libraries, auditoriums or executive offices. Choose from various wood species and wood cuts to help your doors either blend with or stand out from the elements around them.
Create a Focal Point with a Custom Door
Stile and rail doors make a smart investment for their combination of function and aesthetics. Wood stile and rail doors add a touch of luxury and class that works for everything from office buildings to medical facilities. They’re often a good choice when you’re trying to achieve historical authenticity. More importantly, however, you can customize them to fit just about any style or brand standards.
You can get different looks by customizing the number, shape and size of panels or replacing some of them with glass. A single stile and rail door, or a pair of them, can stand out as the entrance to a conference room or executive suite. Stile and rail doors look great in schools, as well, such as entry ways for libraries, auditoriums or executive offices. Choose from various wood species and wood cuts to help your doors either blend with or stand out from the elements around them.
Whether you choose a stile and rail or flush wood door, customize it to make a statement. Even if you choose to keep many of the doors in a project fairly standard, you can create a focal point with a custom door. In a hotel lobby, you might highlight the entry to the bar or restaurant and incorporate the hotel’s branding. For an office, you might use the company’s logo color or print the company values directly on a conference room door.
Grab Attention with an Oversized Door
Oversized doors are a popular design trend that’s guaranteed to steal the show in any building. Large doors can be functional, such as for a cross-corridor door where large items need to move through. However, there is also a trend of large, attention-grabbing doors for aesthetic reasons.
Oversized can work in almost any type of commercial space. For example, Masonite Architectural chose an oversized entry door to the main common area when updating a historic building for our offices. A true statement piece, the door is the first thing that most employees and visitors notice upon their arrival. A large wood door can also look striking in a hotel lobby or an event space in a school.
To make an oversized door truly stand out, consider a trendy option for hanging it, such as barn door-style or on a pivot. These striking options are also practical, allowing adjacent spaces to be joined together for specific needs.
Find Your Statement Doors at Masonite Architectural
With the right statement door, you can tie together a whole design with a dazzling visual. Visitors will go away remembering it. For any size budget, working one outstanding wood door into a design makes for a relatively small investment that makes a big impact., Explore our stile and rail buyers guide or our flush wood doors guide to see more statement door ideas. Or contact Masonite Architectural today to request product samples.