What Are the Benefits of Front Door Sidelights?




When visitors approach your home, they make their first impression of the feel and tone of your most sacred space. If you plan to build your home or do renovations, your focus should be creating a welcoming and eye-catching entry to your house. The door placement, style, and color are essential elements of building your dream entryway. But another thing to consider is adding sidelights to your front entrance.

 

A sidelight is a thin, vertical window that sits directly next to your front door. Commonly, sidelights come in pairs, with one sidelight on each side of the door. It is appropriate to put sidelights next to any door in your home, but they are predominantly found at the home's main entrance.

 

Sidelights bring homeowners a variety of benefits, including:

 

Natural Light  

Sidelights allow warmth and brightness into the home through natural light. They light the entry space and can make the entire house feel brighter.

 

Curb Appeal 

Sidelights are becoming increasingly popular, as they can make your entryway look much more prominent inside and outside your home. Match the style of your sidelight to your front door and architectural style to pack a punch when it comes to curb appeal.

 

Additional Sightlines

Another thing that people love about sidelights is that they allow you to peek out your front entrance without opening the front door. Taking a quick peek out through the sidelights is especially helpful for parents who want to see their kids playing without disrupting them or furry friends who like to come in and out of the house frequently.

 

Home Safety

That peek out the sidelight of your entrance can also benefit your family security, allowing you to see who is approaching your home without opening the door. Sidelights also have options for privacy glass and glass patterns that can promote more security in an attractive look.

 

As you consider your options for your new home build or renovation, consider the plethora of options sidelights can add to a welcoming entrance into your home.

 

The Window Depot offers and installs premium doors from top manufacturers. One of our representatives will be happy to visit your home in the Tampa Bay area to review options and answer all your questions.

  

The Window Depot is an exterior home remodeling company based in Tampa Bay, Florida, offering the best in windows, doors, siding, and more to update our customers' homes' beauty, value, energy efficiency, and safety. We specialize in enhancing a home's beauty, making it as energy efficient as possible, and improving its defense against the forces of nature, such as hurricanes.

 

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