10/20/2026
People decide how they feel about your house in about thirty seconds, standing at the front door, usually holding something. 🚪
That's not a design principle. That's just how arriving works.
Which makes the entry door the single highest-leverage exterior decision in a renovation — and the one most often chosen last, in a hurry, from whatever's available.
We'd rather you took your time with it. Select TruStile, a Marvin Brand, when the house calls for a cleaner line. Species, panel layout, glass, grille pattern, hardware, sidelights, transom — specified together so the entry reads as one idea rather than six decisions that happened to meet.
Forty-seven years of fitting doors to Connecticut houses has taught us that proportion matters more than style. A beautiful door on the wrong scale still looks wrong, and everybody can tell even if nobody can say why.
Bring a photo of your entry to Oxford, Woodbury, or Dayville. We'll start there.
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