Fall Home Show: Open the door to design
Credit to Author: Mary Beth Roberts| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:20:05 +0000
Good design considers how to use space well; it’s a concept the Vancouver Fall Home Show is demonstrating this year by using the entryway to the show to talk about… entryways.
The idea was inspired by a remodel being undertaken by a member of the team running the show and reveals the wide range of door options in today’s modern marketplace, from custom colours to window placement to different door hardware.
“When you’re building or renovating, you should consider that the front door is the first and the last thing that visitors see—it’s the entryway to the soul of your home,” explains Tyson Kidd, show manager of marketplace events. “We wanted to take the opportunity to feature a bunch of showstopping doors, at the front of the show.”
The Okanagan’s Everwood Custom Woodworking is pairing up with ASI Iron Doors for the exhibit. Elemental Gardens is providing the landscaping, designed to reflect different Lower Mainland microclimates and seasonal options with their choices of foliage, flowers and stone. The “Entryway Envy” display involves four doors in total, designed to prompt consumers to consider materials and layout in ways they have perhaps never done before.
The aptly named Giant Pivot is a behemoth in walnut wood, standing nine feet tall and six feet wide. The pronounced grain of the wood is deliberately contrasted with five sleek horizontal bands of metal spaced at even intervals down the height of the door. A single oversize vertical bar handle provides a handhold for both the tall and the small, with custom mounting hardware promising to make opening the door smooth as silk.
Meanwhile a cocowood door—made from timber harvested from coconut palm plantations, which has been gaining popularity as a hardwood alternative—seems to glow with its own inner light, thanks to beautifully variegated wood tones and swirling grain patterns. It’s almost as if a tiger’s eye stone has been framed out into a beautifully contemporary door.
The other all-wood door in the display evokes nothing so much as high-end cabinetry, with a central milk-chocolate-toned door flanked on either side by full height side lights; they almost look like transom windows stood on end.
Finally, the all-metal iron door is a sturdy secure choice for those looking for options. It’s been designed with insulation and to not retain extreme heat or cold.
“It’s time to think about the wow factor in all areas of your home; a door can be a piece of art both when you’re inside and outside,” says Kidd. “It’s another statement about your taste and design savvy—it shows how homeowners view themselves and where they live.”