Making an Entrance

A period-friendly front door should be appropriate to the period and style of your house, and to the house’s degree of formality.

Nicely framed, a doorway on a new house in Durango, Colo., lends a warm welcome. Peter J. Campbell

On another house of the Arts & Crafts Revival, this one in Flagstaff, Arizona, a lovely Southwestern arch is a recurrent motif, both at the entry and on interior doorways and windows. Tim Fuller

A bungalow like many others, this one in Marin County, Cal. No detail was overlooked in its meticulous restoration, which included some improvements to the entry. Douglas Keister

Garage Door Styles

Period-appropriate garage doors, too, are now available to enhance your Craftsman Bungalow or Tudor Revival.

Garage doors suited to a bungalow, a Norman Revival cottage, and a Foursquare, from Clopay.

garage doors tudor revival

Patricia PooreAuthor

Patricia Poore is Editor-in-chief of Old House Journal and Arts & Crafts Homes, as well as editorial director at Active Interest Media’s Home Group, overseeing New Old House, Traditional Building, and special-interest publications.

Poore joined Old House Journal when it was a Brooklyn-brownstoner newsletter in the late 1970s. She became owner and publisher and, except for the years 2002–2013, has been its editor. Poore founded the magazines Old-House Interiors (1995–2013) and Early Homes (2004–2017); their content is now available online and folded into Old-House Journal’s wider coverage. Poore also created GARBAGE magazine (1989–1994), the first unaffiliated environmental consumer magazine.

Poore has participated, hands-on, in several restorations, including her own homes: a 1911 brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and a 1904 Tudor–Shingle Style house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she brought up her boys and their wonderful dogs.

Making an Entrance

A big part of curb appeal and an important design statement is a period-friendly front door.

Patricia Poore

Garage Door Styles