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If you want to make your log or
cedar home
as beautiful as possible, it needs a gorgeous hand-carved door — not a
run-of-the-mill door that you can buy at any lumberyard or Home Depot.
Here are some handmade doors that we made for customers who wanted truly spectacular doors. |
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Carved door portfolio |
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This
is an extra-wide (53¼") door made for a customer in Michigan. After
the door was installed, the owner reported that some people were evidently so fond
of it that they drove by her home every evening to look at it! And when
her guests pose for pictures, guess where they stand! In front of her
door, of course! The owner says that many people exclaimed, "I've
never seen such a beautiful door before! Who made it?"
The trees are 3-dimensional (not flat), and are carved by
hand to gracefully blend from the door slab into the window area. Upon
request, the trees can be stained green at no extra charge.
The stained glass window shown is optional. Besides
stained glass, we also offer etched glass windows that can reproduce any
image. Just submit the picture to us, and we will do the rest!
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This
is a close-up of the window area of the door shown above. The stained
glass window shows two majestic snow-capped mountains in the background, and
rolling hills in the foreground. If you order a stained glass window for
your door, virtually any design can be reproduced. We can work from a
sketch or photograph submitted by you, or we can suggest other designs.
For an especially dramatic effect, the window can be illuminated by a
proprietary technique so that the window appears to always (or whenever you
wish) have sunlight streaming through it!
Besides the stained glass or etched glass windows (each either
with or without illumination), we also offer a deeply etched plastic window
bearing a design that is illuminated by hidden LEDs (light emitting
diodes). The glow of the etched pattern is subtle during the day, but
beautifully luminous at night. Almost any color can be used for
illumination (white, blue, red, green, yellow, orange, amber).
Furthermore, the illumination can be static (the colors stay the same) or
programmable (the colors are programmed to change either automatically or in
response to an external trigger). For example, if your window showed the
sun, it could shine bright yellow during the day, then emit an orange-amber
color to simulate a lovely sunset. Or if a stream or lake is shown,
programmable illumination can simulate waves.
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Here is another picture of the door after it was mounted in a
rough frame. |
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This
33"-wide door was made for another customer. The carved trees are
very similar to the design shown above, but we can carve many other designs (a
deer, moose, bear, dog, cat, bird, cabin, sailboat, sun, snowmobile, skis, a
maple leaf, etc.) into the
door near the window. Other window sizes and shapes (round, square,
rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, octagonal, etc.) are available in addition
to the oval window shown. While most customers think that knotty pine doors
(shown) are the most beautiful way to accent a log home, we can make doors using
virtually any other type of wood. Satin, gloss, and semi-gloss finishes
are available. We can make doors of any width and height for
your home, garage, or shed. Custom brass, copper, or wrought iron door hardware is
available.
We spend hours hand-selecting the best and most beautiful boards
from which the doors are made, and we usually go through a hundred or more
boards just to find one that meets our standards and the tastes of our
customers. Therefore, if you have a preference (more knots or less knots,
more heartwood [the darker streaks] or less heartwood), we can accommodate your
wishes. You won't find such attention to detail in any mass-produced door.
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This is a close-up showing how the
tree carving smoothly blends into the door slab. |
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