Beautiful antique wood doors can add style and charm to the vintage home as well as the newly constructed residence. Antique doors are available in a wide variety of styles suitable for a broad range of architectural designs, and antique doors may come from this country or from others, most notably those in Europe. Antique doors can also be used to dress up the interior of your home as well, adding a stylish look of patina and age that makes your home unique.

You will want to spend some time looking for the perfect antique entry door. There is an antique entry door suitable for both residences as well as apartments and other historic buildings. Better salvage doors may be made of solid wood, or solid wood embellished with a window. These types of antique doors may also benefit from the addition of a transom light as well as sidelights, which are typically little narrow windows that surround the antique wood doors and help to bring natural light into the interior entryway of the home. The architectural salvage doors may also best fit into an elaborate door surround. This might feature ornate moldings used around the door itself, as well as other design features such as columns supporting a roof leading up to the antique doors.

Antique doors may also be used inside the home. With a vintage home, it is very difficult to find modern doors and hardware that really fits in well with the historic interior design motif, and for this reason salvage doors are often used. You can also dress up an older door with restored door hardware. Crystal doorknobs add a gorgeous touch to a door leading to the bedroom or dressing room, for example, or you could select a handcrafted door escutcheon and knob that have been designed to match those used in the time period in which your home was built, for an authentic historic look in your home.

It is also a great decorating idea to age the look of a new home by adding architectural salvage doors. Newer homes can look a bit stark and without personality, but that can be easily remedied with the addition of antique salvage pieces used throughout the home. By adding in a historic element, it gives an instant look of an earlier time period, and with it comes memories from that time period, which adds to the grace and elegance that you want to achieve in the look of the home.

An easy way to begin learning more about architectural salvage items is to visit websites that offer these products for sale, because there you can look at detailed pictures and see specific sizes and shapes of doors and other types of salvage that you might find useful in your home.