Tiny
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Post by Tiny on Jan 12, 2020 14:29:12 GMT -5
Just throwing this out there - there are all sorts of magnetic curtain rods - which can be used on steel doors. Most back doors around here have windows (and either open into a "hall" or "mud room" or directly into the kitchen - so having a window (for light) and then adding some curtains usually dress it up alittle.
I have a fancy glass "window" on my steel front door. I thought the combination of frosted glass and plain glass design would be OK... but it felt like a total loss of privacy. I tried curtains - but it clashed with the style of the door and window... So, I covered the entire "window" with a window film (I think it's a frosted design? for privacy?) it still lets in light but feels better mentally/emotionally to me. And it doesn't look like a "band-aid" solution.
Just throwing that out there if you do go with a window on your kitchen door.
Now that I'm thinking about friends' homes with attached garages - they all just have a plain door (no window) that matches the rest of their interior doors leading to their garage. Especially when the garage door opens into their "family room" or "dining room" area. When the garage door is in the entry way with their front door - the garage door more or less matched the same style (but windowless) of their front door.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 12, 2020 18:19:25 GMT -5
Just throwing this out there - there are all sorts of magnetic curtain rods - which can be used on steel doors. Most back doors around here have windows (and either open into a "hall" or "mud room" or directly into the kitchen - so having a window (for light) and then adding some curtains usually dress it up alittle. I have a fancy glass "window" on my steel front door. I thought the combination of frosted glass and plain glass design would be OK... but it felt like a total loss of privacy. I tried curtains - but it clashed with the style of the door and window... So, I covered the entire "window" with a window film (I think it's a frosted design? for privacy?) it still lets in light but feels better mentally/emotionally to me. And it doesn't look like a "band-aid" solution. Just throwing that out there if you do go with a window on your kitchen door. Now that I'm thinking about friends' homes with attached garages - they all just have a plain door (no window) that matches the rest of their interior doors leading to their garage. Especially when the garage door opens into their "family room" or "dining room" area. When the garage door is in the entry way with their front door - the garage door more or less matched the same style (but windowless) of their front door. When I bought new storm doors for the front and back doors, and for reasons only important to me,I had the door installer relocate one of the old storm doors to the kitchen doorway to the attached garage. Repurposed storm door.
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hoops902
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Post by hoops902 on Jan 13, 2020 9:41:48 GMT -5
Some great suggestions. I think we're going to start with the metallic kickplates and just making some kind of "paneled" pattern on the doors to start with. Mostly because that's super simple and not permanent if we don't like it.
I don't really want to paint the doors right now because I just want the builder to get things put up and not have to wait around for us to paint doors (it's cold here, and the construction will be done largely in the cold), and we've got more important things to take care of ourselves during construction. I don't think the kickplates are the final solution, final solution is probably some kind of paint or wrap or something that we can do when we've got more time and the weather is better.
We may have them painted one solid color, probably a burnt orange (that's the front door color but most of the door is glass), but the longer term solution might be more of a pattern or something.
The window vinyl decal things are a good suggestion, but that's probably going to happen no matter what we do because my kids are obsessed with those things, so that's going to happen but they'll probably end up on the inside of the door more than the outside.
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toomuchreality
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Post by toomuchreality on Jan 13, 2020 18:42:09 GMT -5
Some great suggestions. I think we're going to start with the metallic kickplates and just making some kind of "paneled" pattern on the doors to start with. Mostly because that's super simple and not permanent if we don't like it. I don't really want to paint the doors right now because I just want the builder to get things put up and not have to wait around for us to paint doors (it's cold here, and the construction will be done largely in the cold), and we've got more important things to take care of ourselves during construction. I don't think the kickplates are the final solution, final solution is probably some kind of paint or wrap or something that we can do when we've got more time and the weather is better. We may have them painted one solid color, probably a burnt orange (that's the front door color but most of the door is glass), but the longer term solution might be more of a pattern or something. The window vinyl decal things are a good suggestion, but that's probably going to happen no matter what we do because my kids are obsessed with those things, so that's going to happen but they'll probably end up on the inside of the door more than the outside. I like the kick plate idea. I think it will look nice, yet still leave your options open, so you can change it in the future, if you want to.
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