Looking for some inspiration for ensuring your home has kerb appeal in 2023 and beyond?
As an experienced doors, windows, and conservatories company, we keep our finger on the pulse of fashionable fixtures and fittings, interior and exterior.
In this blog, we’ll talk you through some of the biggest door trends of 2023, explain the benefits and drawbacks, and provide insight into which are likely to last.
Interior and Exterior Door Trends for 2023
Just as with fashion, housing features such as windows and doors have style trends. Whether it is the materials they are made from, the colour, style, or accessories, door trends change and evolve.
Unlike fast fashion, doors are a significant purchase and probably not one that most people will change within ten years.
Therefore, it is important to choose carefully and check it works for your lifestyle before committing.
To Glaze? or Not to Glaze?
One of the questions you need to ask yourself is whether you want your door to include glazing or be a solid unit. Interior and exterior doors can include glass panels, but neither has to. It’s a question of taste, plus your privacy and security requirements.
The fashion for glazing in internal doors is fading, but if your rooms are dark, glass panels are a good way to maximise natural light. We offer a wide range of glazing options designed to suit your needs, from obscure glass perfect for your bathroom door and shower to noise-reducing acoustic glass.
What is the Most Popular Interior Door Style?
There is a bit of a divide between glazed internal doors with slim frames and wooden interior doors with no glazing with or without panels.
Which you choose will depend on your existing decor and personal taste. You should also factor in the door’s location, and how much natural light the rooms get to decide which style works better for you.
What is the Most Popular Interior Door Colour?
After a few years of grey being the top choice for interior doors, black internal doors are enjoying a resurgence. However, natural wood or wood effects remain popular for the kitchen and bathroom, while white never goes out of style. Other popular colours for interior doors this year, include apricot, deep blue, and sage green.
5 top front door trends transforming homes in 2023
We’ve primarily focused on internal doors, but your front door says a lot about you. It should welcome visitors into your home while providing security and a flourish to your facade.
Full of Character
Homeowners want their doors to express the ‘personality’ of their property. Doors with lots of character, such as those with textured designs and natural wood grains, have been a big hit in the first few months of 2023.
Tenderhaus
The pandemic created a longing for more natural, nurturing environments. This is reflected in a greater use of natural woods and glass to facilitate natural light. A softer colour palette features warmer whites and golden shades.
Back to Black
Black front doors have always existed in the UK. After all, Downing Street has had a black front door since it replaced the original green when London hosted the 1908 Olympic games and it was repainted for the occasion. However, homeowners are increasingly choosing black over white or another colour for their front doors. Unlike white, black doesn’t require constant cleaning. It also goes with everything. Scandi, Art Deco, Edwardian, or contemporary, black looks just right with any style.
Understated Functionality
Primarily, a door is a mechanism to allow you to divide and secure spaces. While some people like to make their doors a feature, others prefer a more understated look. We’ve noticed a rise in customers wanting concealed handles, and flush panels, which help the door blend into your existing decor.
Two-Tone
2023- 2023 has also seen a rise in customers wanting doors to be one colour on the inside and a different shade externally. Many of our doors can be sprayed with any RAL colour or colours, inside and out. This flexibility gives you the option of a brighter tone for your interior doors than the outside facing, or vice versa.
Oversized
While larger doors aren’t new, they have increased in popularity. Oversized doors make a statement, creating a showstopping entrance. They also have practical applications. For example, the standard door height in the UK is 6’6, giving most people plenty of headroom. However, if you’re 6’4, or taller, you may still struggle. Wider doors can also help big families, such as young children in large pushchairs, and are great for those with mobility needs.
Raised Elements
Doors with raised elements and a 3D appearance have proven very popular in late 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.
The different types of doors that are transforming homes in 2023
We’ve talked about trends, but one material that is big news in 2023, is aluminium. Durable, sustainable, and versatile, aluminium is the ideal material for modern doors.
Aluminium Entrance Doors
Aluminium is wind and rain resistant, just one of the main reasons thousands of customers choose aluminium entrance doors. They can also be made to any width or height, tying in with the oversized trend.
Aluminium Internal Doors
Alternatively, aluminium internal doors provide an attractive way to divide spaces while allowing plenty of natural light to flow through. Our internal and external slimline aluminium doors offer ultra-slender sightlines for maximum natural light and beautiful uninterrupted views.
Aluminium Slimline Heritage-Style Doors
A modern material, aluminium doors can also work in a period setting. Our aluminium slimline heritage-style doors are perfect for achieving a blended look. Available in bespoke designs and a variety of colours, these beautiful doors can be made even more secure with laminated glass and Ultion door barrels.
Custom Aluminium Doors
Because aluminium is so flexible, and we want to cater to your needs, we offer custom aluminium doors. You choose the style, size, colour, configuration, finish and hardware to create the aluminium door of your dreams.
More FAQS
Should I Choose Trendy or Traditional?
If you are likely to want to sell your home in the next couple of years, it’s best to avoid anything too outlandish.
However, you can still follow some of 2023’s hottest door trends. For example, we’re seeing a lot of coloured interior doors this year.
Internal doors can be painted any colour of the rainbow, from regal purple to oceanic teal, go as bold as you like.
This is a relatively new trend that will likely fade over time. However, it is easily rectified if and when you grow tired of your coloured door. Providing it is a wooden interior door, you can simply paint it white and start again.
You can also paint your exterior doors, depending on the material, though it may be slightly more tricky due to weatherproof sealants. However, you should check if there are any rules about what colours the external doors in your neighbourhood can be. Small villages and conservation areas, in particular, may have an approved list.
How Can I Upgrade My Doors on a Budget?
If you don’t want to paint your doors, a cheap and easy way upgrade option is replacing the handles and hinges with new, high-end accessories. We offer a wide range of hardware and accessories, from simple, elegant handles and hinges to bold, characterful door knockers, in gold, chrome, black, white and more.
How to Get in Touch
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