Creating a Statement with Your Front Door

I enjoyed reading my friend Elizabeth's post (over at The Little Black Door) about her glass front door --- and how she feels about it.  It got me thinking about my front door, and the front doors that I'm currently designing for my clients.  

I love a front door that makes a personal statement.  Here is my front door.....


If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that I'm originally from Hawaii -- and now living in California. And when we remodeled our home a while back, I wanted my front door to speak a little bit about Hawaii and my past.


Collaborating with my friend and designer extraordinaire, Marion Philpotts of Philpotts Interiors (yes, I've written before about her -- we are dear friends and were classmates at Punahou School).......this front door is one of my favorite parts of our home.

Marion picked up the gecko door handle on a trip to Bali, and put me in touch with a metal worker to create a copper basket weave inset in a custom mahogany door.


I always like to use tropical looking plants in my front door pots, and I smile every time I look at the Bufo frog sculptures that were in our home in Hawaii.  The Buddha sculpture was a gift from my BFF and reminds me to remain 'in the present' and that life is beautiful!



What about you?  Does your front door make a personal statement?  Email me a pic!  I'd love to see it!