Solid wooden front doors can be significantly more costly than engineered wood doors, depending on how fancy you go and whether or not the door is prehung (already mounted in the frame).

With a large decorative window in each panel and supporting wood stiles (vertical) and rails (horizontal) edge supports, less than 40 percent of the door is actually insulated.

A. Front doors with decorative sidelights are very popular today. As you have found, the sidelights, which are fixed in the door opening, experience much less wear and tear than the door itself.