In 2019, builders will need doors that go big and tall, and light on the paneling and moulding. Patio doors remain in the spotlight and are tracking bigger than ever.
For painted finishes, darker blue shades are trending strongly for exterior doors, and warmer reds are making a showing.
The continuing style trend is toward really clean lines, with any glass glazed directly into the door. the moulding surrounding door panels, is going away. If there is a panel, it’s one panel, but no ogee, all straight lines.
Eight-foot doors were becoming the new normal, and now the 10-foot door is becoming the 8-foot door. People are starting to demand 10-by-6-foot doors. They’re massive! These big doors are also using pivot hinges which looks amazing when open. Doors are your first hello to the house, and this is doing something interesting with them.
When it comes to patio doors, sliders are growing to enormous proportions, thanks to homeowners’ intensifying desire for a connection to the outdoors. The extreme popularity of this trend is such that even production builders are adding multi-panel sliders a total of 8 to 12 feet wide.
For interior doors, the trends are the same: clean lines, no sticking, and taller doors up to 8 feet, rather than the 6-foot-8-inch door that was the norm in the not-so-distant past. Interior doors used to be either painted white or stained but now you might see them in the same dark color as the walls.
Barn doors remain a huge trend on the interior. Because the doors hang from a hardware system mounted above the opening that allows them to roll open and shut, the size of the opening doesn’t dictate the size of the door. In a nod to their popularity, production builders have also jumped on the barn door trend.
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