Not every home has a standard-size entryway. Older homes, historic properties, custom builds, oversized openings, and unique architectural designs can all require a door that is made to fit rather than pulled from a typical store shelf.
If you are searching for a custom-size exterior door, Nick’s Doors offers custom wood entry systems built around real-world openings. Nick’s Doors can create single doors, double doors, sidelights, transoms, arched entries, and other configurations for both replacement projects and new construction.
Why Standard Exterior Doors Do Not Always Work
Most big-box stores focus heavily on standard door dimensions. That can be limiting when an existing opening is wider, taller, older, out of square, or designed around architectural features such as sidelights or transoms.
Trying to force a standard door into a nonstandard opening can mean additional framing work, changes to the surrounding trim, or compromises in the final appearance.
Nick’s Doors builds custom exterior doors to match the opening instead. Their custom process is designed for unusual dimensions, historic replacements, and projects where proportions and architectural character matter.
Nick’s Doors Can Build to Your Opening
A major advantage of ordering from Nick’s Doors is the ability to customize more than just the door slab.
Their team can configure a complete prehung entry system so the door size, jamb, handing, sidelights, and transom work together for the specific opening. Their solid mahogany entry systems, for example, can be custom-sized for both replacement projects and new construction.
Custom sizing can be especially helpful for:
- Older homes with uncommon openings
- Historic renovations
- Oversized front doors
- Extra-wide entryways
- Tall 8-foot doors
- Double-door entries
- Homes with sidelights
- Entries with transoms
- Arched or radius-top openings
Nick’s Doors also offers certain sidelight widths specifically to help accommodate different rough openings and replacement projects.
Custom Doors Can Include Sidelights and Transoms
A custom-size exterior door does not have to mean simply changing the width or height of a standard design.
Nick’s Doors offers complete entry combinations with:
- Single doors
- Double doors
- One or two sidelights
- Rectangular transoms
- Half-round transoms
- Elliptical transoms
- Arched configurations
- Radius-top doors
Their custom entry systems can be built using different component sizes to better match the width and proportions of an existing opening.
This is especially useful when replacing an older entryway and you want to preserve its overall size rather than rebuilding the surrounding structure.
What About Arched or Round-Top Exterior Doors?
Arched openings can be particularly difficult to replace with an off-the-shelf door.
Nick’s Doors builds custom arched and round-top doors with options for different sizes, wood species, glass, ironwork, sidelights, and transoms.
These doors can be useful for homes with:
- Radius-top entryways
- Arched double doors
- Arched transoms
- Mediterranean architecture
- European-inspired designs
- Custom or historic openings
Nick’s Doors has also produced oversized radius-top entry systems with sidelights and transoms that are prehung and prepared for installation.
You Can Customize More Than the Size
Once you move into a custom exterior door, you can also personalize the appearance and features.
Nick’s Doors can customize elements such as:
- Wood species
- Door thickness
- Panel layouts
- Glass
- Carvings
- Distressing
- Stain and finish
- Hardware preparation
- Multi-point locking systems
- Sidelights and transoms
Their custom door process allows homeowners to start with a sketch, photo, inspiration image, or architectural plan. Nick’s Doors can then create a design proof and quote before the door is built.
How Do I Order a Custom-Size Exterior Door?
You do not need to live near the Nick’s Doors showroom to order.
Nick’s Doors builds its custom wood doors in Crown Point, Indiana and offers nationwide shipping.
To get started, it helps to provide:
- Approximate opening dimensions
- Photos of the existing entry
- A sketch or inspiration photo
- Preferred door style
- Sidelight or transom preferences
- Desired wood species
- Any special glass or hardware requests
The Nick’s Doors team can review the project details and help confirm sizing, swing, and configuration before the order is finalized.
Order a Custom-Size Exterior Door From Nick’s Doors
If a standard front door will not fit your home, you do not necessarily need to redesign the entire opening.
Nick’s Doors specializes in custom-size exterior wood doors and complete prehung entry systems built for both standard and unusual openings. Options include single doors, double doors, sidelights, transoms, oversized entries, and custom arched designs.
Whether you are replacing a historic entry, working with an unusual rough opening, or designing a completely new front entrance, Nick’s Doors can help create a system around your measurements and style.
Call 219-663-2279 or contact Nick’s Doors to discuss your project and request a custom exterior door quote.