Welcome back to the continued postings of My Door Company, builders of Custom Handcrafted Doors and Cabinets. We return today to close out the month of April with a profile of a recent remodel by My Door Company in the Cherry Hills Village area of Englewood, Colorado. Englewood is a much-established suburb of Denver, and the Cherry Hills area has some of the most beautiful homes and open areas in the city.
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The previous entrance began with a standard double door unit (pictured directly above). The new door unit is almost 7 feet tall and over 6 feet wide with the actual door itself resting at 2" thick and about 40" wide. Though this is only 4 inches wider that a standard 36" front door, those extra inches make a huge difference. Given this was originally a double door unit, My Door Company had plenty of room to widen the door and add adjacent sidelites to give the entrance a much bigger and more open feel and appearance.
As you can see from the images, the exterior and interior have different finishes. As we have discussed in earlier posts, not only is the finish different on either side, but the wood we manufacture the unit from is as well - on this door, the exterior is built from Select Alder, and the interior is made from Poplar. Again, Alder is an extremely stable species that looks great with most any type of stain and topcoat, and Poplar is a perfect paint-grade wood given its consistent and subtle grain patterns.
This door is also suited with 4 insulated glass units - 2 lites in the door and 1 in each sidelite. For all our exterior doors that contain glass, My Door Company uses nothing but insulated glass units. Insulated glass units increase your R-Value (measurement of thermal resistance) for greater energy savings, reduce sounds transmissions, and has increased durability.
My Door Company is proud to be part of remodels like this project, as well as new construction - we have done a fair share of both in our years in business. In this case, we worked directly with the homeowner on the design of the new door unit, built the new unit in our facility, then removed the old door and jamb from the existing home and installed the new one on-site. This homeowner already had a painter lined up, so we installed this unfinished and did not coordinate the finish ourselves. Though as part of our offerings, My Door Company can provide and coordinate everything from design to installation to finish, or we can just build and deliver if you have a general contractor taking care of the rest of the details. So if you are a homeowner or a general contractor, or whether you are working on new construction or a remodel, My Door Company is the best place to find Colorado's finest Custom Handcrafted Doors and Cabinets.
And as always, please contact us or visit http://www.mydoorco.com/ for more info. Thanks again.
-rh@mdc
