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MAR 2026 · DETAIL · 6 MIN

The case for a heavy front door

A door that weighs ninety kilos changes how a person enters a house. They slow down. They use two hands. They arrive rather than walk in. Here is what it costs and why we specify it anyway.

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ALL ENTRIES08 · 2023–2026

JAN 2026Notes on siting a house against a north slopeSITE→NOV 2025Why we stopped specifying white wallsMATERIAL→AUG 2025The forty seconds between the gate and the viewSEQUENCE→APR 2025On the pool we refuse to heatLANDSCAPE→DEC 2024Fumed oak, five years on: what actually happenedMATERIAL→JUL 2024Three commissions a year, and the ones we turned downPRACTICE→SEP 2023What a season on site actually tells youSITE→

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