How To Make Your Grand Entrance (Or Your Entrance Grand)

Entering and exiting your home is something that is taken for granted each and every day. You leave in the morning, re-enter later in the day, maybe exit again sometime after dinner, re-enter yet again at night… and if you've got dogs God only knows how many times you're in and out that front, back or side door every single day! How many of you take a good long look at your entryway during any one of those uses? Then again, you see it all the time. What is there to look at, right? 


A sense of pride

Take a good long look at those doors again. What do people see when the go in and out of your humble abode (or not so humble depending on your idea of that whole grand entrance thing)? Do you have one of those old metal doors on the front of your house? Has it been kicked, propped, slammed and shoved until it's all dented and bent? Nice. Very pretty! A front door says a lot not only about who lives there but gives a huge first impression.

Those who take the back road…
… or the back door. If you are fortunate enough to have an area off your back porch in which to grill, picnic, party or simply sip a morning cup of coffee chances are your friends and neighbors are more than familiar with your patio doors. So how about it? What do those poor old sliders say about you and your decorating sense? How many greasy barbeque fingerprints ‘embellish' that door? Nice. Very appetizing.

Time to shake it up a bit!

Sliding patio doors can be dressed up and comprised of more than just wood, glass, nuts and bolts. You're probably going to spend money on window treatments anyways. What if you just went ahead and had internal mini blinds installed? Imagine it… blinds with no dusting and never having to clean those greasy, barbeque finger prints off of each and every slat.

A barely detectable slope in the sill will help prevent water build up it the track which will in turn keep that specially treated stainless steel track operating smoothly as the day it was installed. Exclusive water treating will also help keep cold, heat and moisture out of your home. But because nothing lasts forever (especially with guys and kids slamming in and out several times a day) wouldn't it be great if the working parts were easily replaced? They're out there.

Dress up your home without a complete overhaul by dressing out your doors!

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