Wow, so many doors would look beautiful.

I'm seeing a glass pivot, not sure where you are located. You mention there is an over hang.

Therma Tru offers wood look modern doors:

We're trying to avoid a pivot (though they are very cool) to maximize the door opening since this is the main entrance to the house through which all furniture, appliances, etc. have to come (we have no double doors anywhere, and only two other exterior doors on the main level - garage and deck).

I hadn't thought of doorknob in the center, but I love the idea. Not sure if I can sell my husband on it (though it is more symmetrical, which should appeal to his engineer's love of order and symmetry).

This is our front door and we love the look of it. It is solid wood. There are grooves on it that give it a bit of character. We are not set on colour yet but tentatively have onyx listed.

Furniture is not something that is moved in and out often. So a wide door in the garage could allow a more interesting modern main entrance door for guests. Or for the large piece the entrance door can come off the pivot for full width access.

That's beautiful, Alison. What type of wood is it?

The doorknob in the center is cool (I had one in a home I owned), but to be honest there is a loss of leverage in opening the door because of the shorter distance from the knob to the hinges.

Interesting feedback on color. We're consciously avoiding gray (even though I love a good warm gray) on the inside of the house, out of fear that it could feel gloomy during the rainy nine months of the year, but the consensus seems to be it's fine for the outside. The main concern I've seen raised is that if one is in the sunny half of the country, the gray can present heat problems, but that's not really an issue where we are. Where are you building? If you were on the east of the Cascades I could see it maybe being more of a concern, but I was just in Bend and there are a lot of houses with this color scheme and no obvious problems.

Interesting, Mark. I suspect we'll have a more boring side knob. As part of our process of deciding whether to build or buy (and likely renovate) I toured a beautiful home (well, more accurately home that had the potential to be beautiful - it was in terrible shape) from the 1930s. One of it's incredibly cool features was the original Art Deco double front doors with centered knobs. They would never work for us, style-wise, but I loved them.

We are in North Vancouver, up in BC Canada. I also look around and see many homes in grey and love it. I made a post a few days ago about colours and feedback was pretty overwhelmingly anti dark grey but possibly ok for lighter.

We are going with grey inside too. But I have a friend whose house is just done and grey inside and it is stunning. Grey owl is the colour.

Splurge on the entry door. It 'makes' the house. I'm north of Chicago with a north-facing wood entry door behind a 5-foot deep roofed stoop. It needs some refinishing now, after 17 years.

Natural wood finished exterior doors require regular periodic maintenance to deal with the weathering effects which naturally happen over time.

If you're OK with regular maintenance, then go for a naturally finished wood door.

On the other hand, if lots of regular maintenance is not your thing, then look at other door alternatives.

There are lots to choose from.

Virgil - we we decide we don't want the maintenance of wood (still under consideration), what would you go with?

Any reputable manufacturer who doesn't use wood in their doors.

I think I can handle that. I’m going to ask the door guys for a quote on a solid (as in no windows) wood and a solid fiberglass and see what they come back with. For this type of thing I think they tend to use Simpson and ThermaTru - both sufficiently reputable?

The last time around they quoted custom doors from Rogue Valley Door, and while they were lovely, they were too rustic and seemed like overkill for what we need.

Your house is Modern and, thus, your front door should follow suit. The simplest approach might be a simple solid core door, with a nice painted finish, and a really nice lock and latch set which is also Modern and matches your other metal finishes. Good luck!

What about this for your front door hardware with a simple solid core door like Virgil has suggested. https://emtek.com/multi-point-lock-trim/modern-style-11-keyed-euro

Thanks, Alison - that's a great one. Exterior door locks are outside my jurisdiction, however, as my husband has some specific things he wants for security. I have just said he has to find something that's both secure and not ugly.