My front door is 36"x87" which seems to put me in the realm of "custom" doors. I found this one at HD that fits our turn-of-the-century house's aesthetic pretty well, seems rather well built, and for a decent price. But it looks like custom doors (and not in this design I like) start around $350.
There must be alternatives, but I've never door shopped before. Any insight?
I think my dad just installed one for my sister over in Clifton Heights. He had to pull the wood frame around the door and re-do it all, but I'll be seeing family today. I may ask what the dillio was.
I've given some thought to re-framing for a standard door. I like the idea of the transom window - we have one in stained glass already, but something that complements it could work in addition to it.
buy steel security door you want, use welder to add 7" of new Z bar and a decorative kick plate? i might even have some steel security door z bars laying around that i could cut you a couple chunks from to do the adding.
otherwise you're looking at custom. custom = $. an 87" tall door sounds awesome though, and i would not get rid of it. the first time you try to wheel a fridge through on a hand truck and hit the top of the 80" jamb you'll be cursing yourself for taking out that cool tall door.
It is a cool old house (1880s!) that's in really solid shape, and I don't want to screw it up too bad for the next owner.
The additional kickplate is a good thought. They'd have to extend the door frame too, but that shouldn't be difficult.
Cheap door with window plus cheap door without plus cutting and welding and painting.
Alternately, glass is cheap and anyone with a table saw or router can make a wood or dimensional PVC frame and glaze the glass into it.
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