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We bought a post modern home that has a beautiful, 21 raised panel, very heavy wooden entry door. It is 3 1/2 feet wide by 7 feet tall and stained either solid cherry or redwood natural color.
My question is would this be an appropriate door for a 1970s modern home or would I need to change it to keep a consistent architectural theme? If it isn't modern, what style is a 21 panel door? spanish maybe?? I can't find any pictures online of this style door on a modern home. Most doors are slab style with picture glass inserts.
Sorry, I can't post any pictures yet. Camera is still packed! If you google "21 panel" front door (with quotes around 21 panel) a few pics pop up to see similar doors.
The images that came up on google are not really consistent with what I would call "post modern" -- seven rows of three panels each strike me as something that Mike Brady's architectural firm would call groovy in the 70s... When I think post moden I think stuff like Arquitectonica Headquarters | Arquitectonica in South Florida.
Anyhow I can see how a "Mediterraneannstylw" fits with this door especially if the stain is like a dark walnut...
If your door is Douglas Fir which typically has an orange / peachy hue that can look appropriate with a wide range of styles including California Arts & Crafts, traditional Colonial, Mission, Greek Revival, Italianate and lots of of "transitional" contompories
Last edited by chet everett; 03-03-2013 at 08:58 PM..
...If it isn't modern, what style is a 21 panel door? spanish maybe...
That is an interpretation of a "haveli" door. They were usually made of teak. The "style" has been around a few hundred years.
Not exactly "post" modern!
maybe you can save the door and have someone put glass into the panels for you?
Yes, that is the door.
Thank you for posting the pictures and link, findinghope. Your Bing images are beautiful and certainly seem much more appropriate for the style of the house than the raised panel door I have currently.
This is my first modern style home and am having fun researching the era in order to transform the mish mash of styles currently in this house from years of unfortunate choices by previous owners into a unified style. We've always had prewar colonial houses. I was ready for a change and have fallen in love with the sleekness of modern design after decades of crown mouldings, chair rails and wood shakes.....
Last edited by texan2yankee; 03-04-2013 at 06:15 AM..
That is an interpretation of a "haveli" door. They were usually made of teak. The "style" has been around a few hundred years.
Not exactly "post" modern!
I didn't think so, but wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming this.....now the fun begins of finding a new door!
The images that came up on google are not really consistent with what I would call "post modern" -- seven rows of three panels each strike me as something that Mike Brady's architectural firm would call groovy in the 70s... When I think post moden I think stuff like Arquitectonica Headquarters | Arquitectonica in South Florida.
Anyhow I can see how a "Mediterraneannstylw" fits with this door especially if the stain is like a dark walnut...
If your door is Douglas Fir which typically has an orange / peachy hue that can look appropriate with a wide range of styles including California Arts & Crafts, traditional Colonial, Mission, Greek Revival, Italianate and lots of of "transitional" contompories
Thank you, chet. While it certainly is a "groovy", well made, and expensive door, our new home is decidedly architecturally modern, so out it goes as soon as I can find a more appropriate replacement.
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