The detail on it is incredible and painted in that beautiful Coventry Gray (BM), it really makes the entry feel so welcoming.
I love the idea of refurbishing an antique door for an entry and we did just that on our old 1850 stone home back in 2005...
The front door when we bought the home was in pretty bad shape, completely deteriorating along the bottom and in desperate need of replacing.
Rather than just pick up something from Home Depot, we went on a hunt at architectural salvage places for a "new" door that would be in keeping with the age of our home.
I don't have any before pics {this was before blogging} and this isn't the greatest after pic either, but you get the idea. It was a door from an old home in the late 1840s and we stripped it down, resized it a bit, filled in all the gaps and holes, sanded, primed, painted and fitted it with antique hardware. It was a lot of work, but it became my favourite feature of our home {I especially loved how the warm red really popped}. I want to do this again on our future home - it gives the entry such personality and I love to wonder who owned this door before and what kind of life they lived.
If you don't want to go through all the effort of installing an antique entry door, how about using one inside to inject some vintage personality?
as an entry mirror...
a pretty backdrop to a vignette...
or as big art to fill an empty corner...
Have you used any antique doors in your home?
lisa
[first pic: homeandharmony; last three: fixingitfancy; houzz; flickr]