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Best in class: Making an entrance

Front doors

Sat 4 Mar 2017
This bronze door is top of the range, made of a manufactured wood composite that includes steel. The door is then sprayed in a choice of metal finishes. There are three options to choose from; bronze, pictured here in a beaten effect, silver or copper which can be treated to protect the colour or left to oxidise. The UK-based company, Urban Front, will work from architects’ drawings and can supply to Ireland. Prices for this bronze door start from about €14,200 for a door of standard size. 

urbanfront.com
This bronze door is top of the range, made of a manufactured wood composite that includes steel. The door is then sprayed in a choice of metal finishes. There are three options to choose from; bronze, pictured here in a beaten effect, silver or copper which can be treated to protect the colour or left to oxidise. The UK-based company, Urban Front, will work from architects’ drawings and can supply to Ireland. Prices for this bronze door start from about €14,200 for a door of standard size. urbanfront.com
This door is a contemporary take on traditional tongue and groove panelling. Made from accoya, a manufactured wood composite using mainly Radiata pine, it shows off the wood’s natural grain and colour. The door includes security hinge claws and deadlocks that combine with shoot-bolt. This Fairco design features horizontal strips set into an engineered hardwood frame and sidelights of high-impact security glass. Prices for the style pictured start at €3,000.

fairco.ie
This door is a contemporary take on traditional tongue and groove panelling. Made from accoya, a manufactured wood composite using mainly Radiata pine, it shows off the wood’s natural grain and colour. The door includes security hinge claws and deadlocks that combine with shoot-bolt. This Fairco design features horizontal strips set into an engineered hardwood frame and sidelights of high-impact security glass. Prices for the style pictured start at €3,000. fairco.ie
This glazed panel front door leads into the period interior of the Old Skool House, in Watlington, Oxfordshire. Designed by Peek Architecture the glass panels let light into and frame the entranceway. Red is one of the most popular door colours in Ireland, according to Senator Windows. Sandtex’s Cranberry Swirl is a gorgeous glossy red that is similar to that pictured. The door style is similar to a solid mahogany style from Doors Direct called Downham. 

doorsdirect.ie; senatorwindows.ie; peekarchitecture.co.uk
This glazed panel front door leads into the period interior of the Old Skool House, in Watlington, Oxfordshire. Designed by Peek Architecture the glass panels let light into and frame the entranceway. Red is one of the most popular door colours in Ireland, according to Senator Windows. Sandtex’s Cranberry Swirl is a gorgeous glossy red that is similar to that pictured. The door style is similar to a solid mahogany style from Doors Direct called Downham. doorsdirect.ie; senatorwindows.ie; peekarchitecture.co.uk
This Scandinavian timber design by Carlson features two double-glazed panels that stream light into the hall but maintain privacy and security. The door hardware pictured is satin anodised aluminum; polished brass is also available. The door has a multi-point locking system, is available in any RAL colour and can be ordered as a single or double door that opens in or out. As pictured, it costs from €2,500, ex-VAT. 

carlson.ie
This Scandinavian timber design by Carlson features two double-glazed panels that stream light into the hall but maintain privacy and security. The door hardware pictured is satin anodised aluminum; polished brass is also available. The door has a multi-point locking system, is available in any RAL colour and can be ordered as a single or double door that opens in or out. As pictured, it costs from €2,500, ex-VAT. carlson.ie
A popular story with Dublin tour guides trying to explain the city’s colourful doors is that after the death of Queen Victoria Irish citizens were ordered to paint their doors black. They rebelled by painting them every colour of the rainbow. This six-panelled double door is painted in Mister David from Little Greene. The low-sheen eggshell is self-priming and one litre (€38) will do a door. You may be able to source similar original doors from The Stripy Paint Co in Leitrim, or have a joiner make one; look up the Irish Georgian Society’s Traditional Building Skills register. 

igs.ie/conservation/register
stripypaint.ie
littlegreene.ie
A popular story with Dublin tour guides trying to explain the city’s colourful doors is that after the death of Queen Victoria Irish citizens were ordered to paint their doors black. They rebelled by painting them every colour of the rainbow. This six-panelled double door is painted in Mister David from Little Greene. The low-sheen eggshell is self-priming and one litre (€38) will do a door. You may be able to source similar original doors from The Stripy Paint Co in Leitrim, or have a joiner make one; look up the Irish Georgian Society’s Traditional Building Skills register. igs.ie/conservation/register stripypaint.ie littlegreene.ie
This timber-fronted door, pictured in a dark architectural grey but available in 15 colours, features a long central vision panel and is flanked by sidelights that sit flush with the door. Above the portico the rectangular toplight, a modern interpretation of the semi-circular fanlight on Georgian doors is an additional light source. It’s designed and fitted by FGM Windows and Doors Ltd, in Leopardstown, which recently supplied very cool pop-out-and-glide doors for an apartment development on Grattan Street East for Ailtireacht Architects. 

fgm.ie; ailtireacht.ie
This timber-fronted door, pictured in a dark architectural grey but available in 15 colours, features a long central vision panel and is flanked by sidelights that sit flush with the door. Above the portico the rectangular toplight, a modern interpretation of the semi-circular fanlight on Georgian doors is an additional light source. It’s designed and fitted by FGM Windows and Doors Ltd, in Leopardstown, which recently supplied very cool pop-out-and-glide doors for an apartment development on Grattan Street East for Ailtireacht Architects. fgm.ie; ailtireacht.ie
This front door and surround by Energlaze comes with the promise that it will not rot, bow, warp, crack, swell or shrink. It is doubly weather-sealed, comes in 12 colour options and a range of classical and contemporary door styles and glazing options. All doors features an eight-point hook-locking system with a dead latch. Pictured is the CD2, painted fire-engine red with leaded glass side panels and a fanlight. It costs €2,800, ex-VAT. The door hardware featured is in brass finish but is also available in bronze, chrome, satin grey or silver finishes. 

energlaze.ie
This front door and surround by Energlaze comes with the promise that it will not rot, bow, warp, crack, swell or shrink. It is doubly weather-sealed, comes in 12 colour options and a range of classical and contemporary door styles and glazing options. All doors features an eight-point hook-locking system with a dead latch. Pictured is the CD2, painted fire-engine red with leaded glass side panels and a fanlight. It costs €2,800, ex-VAT. The door hardware featured is in brass finish but is also available in bronze, chrome, satin grey or silver finishes. energlaze.ie

More Home & Property Galleries

Forget draping fringed scarves over side lamps to create a bohemian look at home – the latest way to create this ambiance is the artful layering of patterned wallpapers on patterned furniture and furnishings as per Designers Guild’s new Au Theatre collection by Christian Lacroix. Launched last week at London Design Week, Dún Laoghaire-based Brian S Nolan (briansnolan.ie) expects to have sample books in early April. Talisman Arlequin, the fabric on the sofa and chair costs €266 per linear metre. Fetiche Arlequin, the wallpaper panels, to the right and left of shot, cost €371 per metre and Paseo Canetille, the fabric on the foot cushions to the front of shot, costs €245 per metre.

House Proud: Hippy chic

Mc Donnell Properties is seeking €950,000 for four-five-bedroom Ballard Lodge on 4.5 acres with paddocks and stables in Ashford, Co Wicklow

Take five for €950,000

This bronze door is top of the range, made of a manufactured wood composite that includes steel. The door is then sprayed in a choice of metal finishes. There are three options to choose from; bronze, pictured here in a beaten effect, silver or copper which can be treated to protect the colour or left to oxidise. The UK-based company, Urban Front, will work from architects’ drawings and can supply to Ireland. Prices for this bronze door start from about €14,200 for a door of standard size. 

urbanfront.com

Best in class: Making an entrance

Architect Pamela Sandler worked with interior designer Elena Letteron of Germain Interiors to create this fairytale arrangement in a lakeside summer home. The beds stand taller than bunk beds you might buy from a furniture shop and were designed to take advantage of the extra ceiling height, so that climbing to the top bunk feels like a real retreat. Painted in Benjamin Moore Dove White, Letteron also used the additional headroom to give each bunk its own reading light.

sandleraia.com
germaininteriors.com

Best in class: Bedtime storeys

Sliding doors help maximise the interior space of a pantry. Elfa, available at The Organised Store in Dundrum Town Centre with the full range on view at its sister showroom in Newtown Business Park in Newtownmountkennedy, has some very smart internal solutions including this range of ventilated metal shelving overhead, shallow spice trays, wire frame and fine mesh glide-in drawers which costs about €800. The sliding doors pictured are not supplied by the shop, but it can recommend local fabricators. 

the-organised-store.myshopify.com

Best in class: Larder than life

This butterfly-roofed extension by architecture firm Brennan Furlong (brennanfurlong.ie) has a very Californian kitchen. Made of pre-finished, double-layer birch ply, it evokes the halcyon glamour of mid-century modern. Freshflowers, a harlequin set of chairs in off-beat shades, and strip lighting overhead lift the look. Expect to pay from about €15,000 for something similar, says Seamus Furlong.

House Proud: La La Land

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