The Perfect Door for Your Period Home

The hardest part of renovating a period home isn't the budget or the build. It's the doors.

Standard sizes never fit. A 1930s cottage doorway is rarely 762mm. A Victorian townhouse has openings that curve and settle in ways no catalogue accounts for. So you either compromise with a hollow modern door that looks wrong, or you pay a joiner to build from scratch and wait months.

There's a third option, and it's the one we built Period House Store around.

We make traditional oak and pitch pine doors to measure. Send a photo and dimensions, and you get a quotation. Ledged and braced cottage doors, four and six panel, the cleaner Oak Mexicano line, plus FD30 fire doors where building regs demand them.

Every piece uses kiln dried timber, so it stays stable through central heating cycles instead of warping two winters in. Handmade construction means authentic joinery detail, not a veneer pretending to be period.

The practical workflow:

Measure the opening at three points, width and height. Note the reveal depth. Photograph the existing door and frame. Send it over.

That's it. No showroom visit, no guessing at standard sizes, no six month lead time on a bespoke joiner.

If you're restoring a cottage, a townhouse, or anything with walls that have opinions, made to measure is usually the cheaper path once you factor in filler, rehanging, and regret.

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