The front door is often the focal point of a home exterior – a door is the first thing guests see when they arrive; it’s the last thing they contemplate after leaving. It’s visited daily by mail delivery, giving potential buyers something to remember the house by. An ordinary home can become “the house with the red door” with nothing more than a simple coat of paint, while a magnificent piece of architecture can rely on a unique door style to tie its exterior design together. Why settle with typical? This post features 50 modern front door designs with expressively tailored personality and style.
01. Modern Front Door Inspiration
Architect: Stuart Silk Architects
Let’s start with a modern take on a classic. Smooth horizontal wood panels gain a contemporary update with a silky black handle guard that runs from top to bottom.
02. Door Idea For Modern Houses
Architect: Sanders Pace Architecture
Here’s a wood door formed from a solid sheet of veneer, integrated within matching boards that wrap around on the side and ceiling.
03. Slatted Modern Entry Door
Via: Sean Myers
Doors that reach from top to bottom make entryways look more significant than they are. This one is exciting because the handle guard continues sideways with room for a mail slot.
04. Wood And Black Front Door
Architect: SBCH Architects
Warm wood panels jump out from the neutral home exterior, and horizontal matte black panels provide extra decoration.
05. Matching Wooden Door And Walkway
Architect: ONG & ONG
Vibrant wood tones add natural character to concrete exteriors. A matching walking path further differentiates the entryway from the paved parking and patio tiles.
06. Textured Wooden Front Door
Architect: McClennan Architects
A natural door can have a bolder effect on an industrial exterior like this one. This one has a textural exterior to stand in contrast with the concrete and steel surrounding it.
07. Modern Vertical Door Pull In Modern Home
Architect: Atelier M+A
This classic door seems to float weightlessly between frameless sidelights.
08. Heavy Wooden Door For Glass House
Source: Daniel James Hatton
Camouflaged within its bordering panels, this door makes a dramatic first impression by offering a substantial, weighty look with a perfect glass-clad exterior.
09. Chevron Wooden Door
Via: Martha Stewart
Chevron wood panels are a nice break from traditional horizontal or vertical wood planks. Fiery orange is an excellent finish for a modern Californian home like this one.
10. Wood Door With Glass Slats
Designer: Joseph Douglas
Timber planks and alternating glass strips allow for guarded visual continuity, allowing sunlight to filter through an otherwise heavy-looking door. The extended door pull is another interesting touch.
11. Contemporary Pivoting Door
Source: Bramco Builders
Incorporating artistic glass is another way to make a front door stand out. These textural sheets of glass coordinate well with the home’s textural exterior, providing extra privacy that ordinary panels could not. Note that this door also opens on a pivot to save space on the interior.
12. Farmhouse Patio Door Style
Designer: Jute Home
Garden-facing doors don’t need much bulk, so something with glass panes like this is perfectly workable. It’s the perfect solution for an entryway with a farmhouse vibe like this one.
13. Amazing Oversized Glass Doors
Architect: Sculp[IT]
Wow! These oversized atrium-height doors are breathtaking. Mechanized hardware allows designers to overlook the weight of the doors so the homeowners can go as big and bold as they want.
14. Dark Wood And Steel Front Door
Source: Borano
Deep rose tones are traditional and sophisticated, while the brushed steel door guard incorporates modern styling.
15. Futuristic Front Door Designs
Designer: Keratuer
This Red Dot Design Award winner gains admiration for its enhanced security, keyless entry options, and distinctive styling. Exotic woods like the ones used here always catch the eye.
16. Minimalist Black Front Door
Designer: Axolotl
The ideal door has a minimalist exterior – this sleek and modern design uses uncomplicated modern materials, its stripes serving up just a touch of decoration for visual interest.
17. Inspiring Artistic Wood Door
Designer: Minarc
Wavy wood panels flow and interweave for an artistic effect. The ultra-tall and wide design opens on a pivot, making it stand out in terms of looks and functionality.
18. Futuristic Front Door Pattern
Designer: Axolotl
This part of the door tour takes us through several highly artistic and up-to-date options. This futuristic door incorporates a textured print on top of a cloudy finish.
19. Textural Tiled Front Door Design
Designer: Axolotl
Unusual materials can transform an ordinary front door into an actual focal point. This one goes for a bold approach to texture, with stone-like panels varied by tint and height.
20. Blocky Wood Door Pattern
Via: Casa Vogue
Designed by Deborah Aguiar and executed by Joinery Piñeiro, this door transforms ordinary wood panels into a daring sculptural arrangement. Even the mail slot plays an integral role in the design.
21. Laser Engraved Floral Door Inspiration
Designer: Axolotl
Laser-carved doors give homeowners endless possibilities for self-expression. This floral imprint continues along the frame to either side to stretch its effect on the home’s exterior.
22. Awesome Map Inspired Front Door
Designer: Axolotl
Here’s another laser-carved door, this time featuring an aerial view of the client’s home and neighborhood in the finest detail. Its aluminum coating contributes substantial visual weight.
23. Laser Engraved Snake Skin Front Door
Designer: Denai Kulcsar Interiors
Even snake scale texture looks right at home on a modern front door. Edgy and elegant.
24. Natural Modern Front Door Theme
Designer: Axolotl
This door combines cutout branches with a multi-tone finish for a perfectly up-to-date result. The handprint on the door pull is a neat idea, too.
25. Rustic Front Door With Tiny Panes
Designer: Michael Fullen Design Group
Check out this flattering take on pane windows, with small squares of amber glass embracing an open view without compromising security. This would be a lovely door for an updated take on a classic exterior.
26. Wood Door With Tiny Glass Panes
Architect: Mahoney Architect & Interiors
Here’s another take on tiny panes, this one with frosted glass to provide ample privacy while still retaining a bright and sunny appeal.
27. Artistic Front Door Design
Architect: Silvas Studios Architecture
Are you looking for a way to incorporate natural themes without sacrificing your modernist aesthetic? This starburst pattern draws the eye immediately; its distressed, bright blue paint keeps the personality friendly and casual.
28. Modern Screen Door Inspiration
Architect: MCK Architects
Screen doors can boast plenty of styles too. Here, decorative strapwork creates a guarded but attractive boundary between the front door and the street outside. Fresh air filters right through to cool the home, but the hot sun doesn’t get very far.
29. Glowing Onyx Front Door
Architect: Dick Clark Associates
Designed by architect Dick Clark and constructed by Gary McFarland, this artistic door glows brightly from within thanks to the ethereal lights sandwiched between semi-transparent onyx panels.
30. Mid-Century Modern Front Door Design
Designer: Mark Tessier
The mid-century Scandinavian vibes are strong with this door! Natural shades of orange and green blend flawlessly with the nearby furniture and decoration while livening up the home’s concrete exterior.
31. Natural Minimalist Front Door
Architect: Workroom
Natural materials meet minimalism in this gorgeous entryway.
32. Herringbone Front Door Design
Architect: Chamberlain Javens Architects
Sideway herringbone patterns aren’t typical for front doors, making this one even more noticeable. The golden ratio-inspired sidelights reinforce the artistic elements at play here.
33. Ultra Glossy Black Front Door
Designer: Jennifer Post
Glossy doors are uncommon as well. White stripes offer a response to the black strips along the exterior walkway. Inside, glossy walls and floors continue the highly polished theme.
34. Glossy Cardinal Red Front Door
Via: Minha Casa
This cardinal red door uses its extra-wide stature and pivot construction to make a dramatic statement every time it sweeps open.
35. Pivoting Door Inspiration
Designer: Denise McGaha Interiors
Pivoting doors always seem to create a stir among visitors. This method can turn even an ordinary door into a show-stopper.
36. Wood And Steel Pivot Door
Architect: Furman + Keil Architects
Some doors don’t have much of a pivot to them at all. This lovely example could be mistaken for a traditional hinged door. Still, the lack of visual hinges makes it an excellent option for those seeking minimalism in exterior design.
37. Creative Front Door Within A Door
Architect: Olson Kundig Architects
It’s impossible to overlook this creative modern door. A pivoting outer frame reveals a smaller door within, the smaller doorway adhering to traditional sizing, and the outer door blurring the boundaries between inside and out.
38. Ultra Modern Hot Pink Front Door
Designer: Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid’s innovative Ring front door design won a Red Dot Design Award, partly thanks to its unique opening mechanism: a ring hiding inside the volcano that opens when activated.
39. Futuristic Handle Free Front Door Design
Designer: Karim Rashid
The gorgeous Blow door, also by Karim Rashid, curves outward to provide a visually stunning alternative to a traditional door handle.
40. Colorful Front Door Inspiration
Source: Inside Out
Now let’s move on to a collection of doors that emphasize color. This bright blue door stands out against the surrounding potted plants, a cool drink of water within a desert-inspired garden.
41. Bright Yellow Front Door Idea
Via: Skona hem
Bright yellow is a cheerful and welcoming color, perfect for a front door.
42. Famous Pink Front Door
Architect: Moises Esquenazi and Associates
Photographer: Studio DIY
Do you recognize this famous entryway? The creatives at Studio DIY noticed this bold door making waves on Pinterest and became so obsessed that they took the time to hunt it down.
43. Matching Front Door And Garden
Via: The Transcontinental Affair
Color is a great way to embrace bright flora growing nearby – these blossoms would have outshined any other door, so now the entrance gets to share the spotlight.
44. Amazing Curved Front Door
Architect: Matharoo Associates
Constructed from 40 planks of Burma teak, this door contains fabulously intricate inner mechanisms, including a wire rope and hidden counterweight to create its dynamic opening effect. It looks like an ordinary oversized door when closed but fans out into a beautiful curved opening.
45. Vintage Starburst Front Door
Via: Permahaus
This door offers another fantastic example of construction turning ordinary materials into something magical, such as a lovely starburst pattern extending the door framing on either side.
46. Contemporary Front Door And Stair Combo
Photographer: Toni Kaarttinen
This wooden door is incredibly unique. Its wood body continues beneath the stairs and off to the sides to create the illusion of one large door, with a set of varied stairs floating in front.
47. Modern Solid Stone Door
Architect: Peter Zumthor and Gottfried Böhm
What could make you feel more secure than a stone door? This work of art is carved from solid basalt.
48. Carved Front Door Inspiration With Owl
Via: Livemaster
Woodcarving can come in handy for artistic expression as well. This door takes its owl motif to the next level by including a sculptural beak and tinted windows for eyes.
49. Creative Painted Front Door Idea
Source: Decoesfera
While this is not a home, the idea is still solid – the door is an ordinary style, but the streetlamp painting gives it a distinctive artistic frame.
50. Unique Classical Door Position
Via: Photobucket
Wow! This door is built into a round window, its unique shape and proportions ensuring undivided attention.
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