Cyber Monday - Shop Doors: Contractor's Guide to What's Trending

Cyber Monday isn't just for holiday shopping. For contractors, remodelers, and builders, it's an opportunity to plan upcoming projects, compare materials, and find potential savings on interior doors, exterior doors, and installation hardware.

Whether you're purchasing Shaker doors for a whole-home renovation, exploring French doors for a client's home office, or sourcing new front doors for exterior remodeling projects, choosing the right products can make a difference in your budget and installation schedule.

This guide explores popular door styles, practical configurations, and product considerations to help contractors plan their next projects with confidence.

What Contractors Should Watch This Cyber Monday

Door to Door's interior doors cover a wide range of styles and configurations. Identifying a repeatable selection early in the season can simplify estimating and ordering across multiple upcoming jobs. A few things worth thinking through before you shop:

• Popular door styles: Identify which styles your clients are requesting, including Shaker doors, French doors, and raised panel doors.
• Project requirements: Determine whether upcoming jobs require interior doors, exterior doors, or both.
• Door configurations: Review whether each opening requires single doors, double doors, or bi-fold doors.
• Material preferences: Consider primed, unfinished pine, and knotty pine options.
• Product quantities: Estimate how many doors you'll need across upcoming projects.
• Availability: Review inventory, processing times, and shipping requirements before scheduling installations.

If you work with Door to Door regularly, the contractor partner program is worth reviewing for volume ordering and trade support options.

Shaker Doors Remain an Easy Choice for Modern Projects

If there's one door style that consistently works across project types, it's the Shaker. Shaker doors suit modern, transitional, Craftsman, and farmhouse interiors without fighting any of them, which makes them the lowest-risk specification for bedrooms, bathrooms, offices, closets, and whole-home renovations.

Primed options are ready to paint on site. Clear pine options are available for stained or natural finishes.The 2 Panel Shaker Style Door (Primed) is a clean, versatile starting point that works well across a wide range of applications.

French Doors Bring More Light Into Interior Spaces

Not every room needs to feel completely separated from the rest of the home. French doors offer a way to define individual spaces while allowing natural light to pass between rooms.

These glass-panel interior doors are worth considering for:

• Home offices: Create a defined workspace without closing it off visually.
• Dining rooms: Maintain an open feeling while separating entertaining spaces.
• Living rooms: Add architectural detail between adjoining rooms.
• Bedrooms and bathrooms: Consider frosted glass when greater visual privacy is needed.

The 15 Lite French Door is one of the more popular glass interior door options and is available in clear pine.

Natural Wood Doors Fit the Shift Toward Warmer Interiors

There's been a consistent move toward warmer, more textured interiors over the past few years, and natural wood doors fit that direction well. Pine and knotty pine bring visible grain and natural character that painted or primed surfaces can't replicate.

Unfinished doors give contractors and clients full control over the final look. Stained to a rich walnut tone, sealed clear to let the natural grain show, or left with a lighter finish for a more casual feel. The same door slab works in multiple directions depending on the finishing choice.

Where it works well:

• Rustic and farmhouse-style renovations
• Cabin and mountain home projects
• Warmer traditional interiors with natural material palettes
• Spaces where clients want visible wood texture rather than a painted finish
• Barn door applications where the knotty grain adds to the overall character

The Z-Brace Knotty Pine Barn Door is a strong example of how knotty pine works in a statement door application. See the full barn doors collection for additional knotty pine options.

Raised Panel Doors Bring Traditional Detail Back Into Projects

While minimalist designs are common in contemporary renovations, many homeowners still prefer the depth and decorative appearance of traditional raised panel doors.

These interior doors feature panels that extend outward from the surrounding frame, creating additional dimension and visual interest.

Contractors can choose from different panel configurations depending on the home:

• Two-panel doors: A simpler traditional appearance that also works in transitional interiors.
• Four-panel doors: A balanced design with additional panel detail.
• Six-panel doors: A classic choice for traditional bedrooms, hallways, and living spaces.

For renovations involving older homes, raised panel doors can help preserve an established architectural style while replacing worn or damaged doors.

Explore Door to Door's selection of raised panel doors, including the 6 Panel Raised Double Hip Pine Door.

Barn Doors Still Work When the Application Makes Sense

Barn doors have settled into their place in the market. They're not the right choice for every room, but when the application is right, they're hard to beat.

The spaces where barn doors genuinely add value are ones where a swinging door creates an obstacle: pantries, laundry rooms, home offices, and closets where floor clearance is limited.

What contractors need to confirm before buying a barn door:

• Enough wall clearance beside the opening for the door to slide fully open
• Enough overhead clearance for the track and hardware
• A compatible hardware kit specified alongside the door slab
• Client expectations set on privacy: barn doors are not airtight and leave a gap at the edges

See the full barn doors collection and pair with our hardware for a complete project specification.

Contractors Should Not Overlook Functional Door Styles

Not every door is a design statement. Bi-fold and louvered doors solve specific functional problems and belong in the specification toolkit alongside the more visible style choices.

Bi-Fold Doors

Bi-fold doors fold against themselves rather than swinging into the room, which makes them the practical choice for spaces where floor clearance is tight. Closets, laundry rooms, and pantries are the most common applications, and Shaker-style bifold options let contractors maintain a consistent design language across the project.

See our bi-fold doors collection including the Single Panel Shaker Style Bifold Door (Primed).

Louvered Doors

Louvered doors allow airflow through the slatted panels, which makes them particularly useful in utility spaces where ventilation matters alongside appearance. Closets, laundry rooms, and mechanical utility areas are the most common applications.

See our louvered doors collection including the 2 Plantation Louver Panel Door (Primed).

Single vs. Double Doors: Build Around the Opening

Door configuration should follow the opening, not the other way around. Specifying the wrong configuration relative to the available space is one of the more common ordering mistakes on multi-room projects.

• Single doors work for standard openings in bedrooms, bathrooms, offices, and hallways. Most interior door specifications default to single doors.
• Double doors work for wider openings in offices, dining rooms, and large closets where a single door would look undersized or create an awkward clearance.
• Paired French doors add decorative presence to wider openings and are a good fit when the client wants glass and a more open feel between spaces.

See our single doors, double doors, and French doors collections to compare configurations before specifying.

Front Doors Are Another Opportunity for Contractors

For contractors specializing in exterior renovations, replacement front doors represent another opportunity to help homeowners improve the appearance and functionality of their homes.

Unlike interior doors, exterior doors must be appropriate for outdoor exposure and the installation's weatherproofing and security requirements.

Door to Door offers a selection of wood exterior doors featuring pine and fir designs.

Glass-Panel vs. Solid-Panel Front Doors

When helping clients choose new front doors, consider the appearance they want along with privacy, natural light, and installation requirements.

Glass-panel front doors can bring natural light into the entryway while adding decorative detail to the home's exterior.

Solid-panel front doors offer a more traditional appearance and greater visual privacy.

Two options contractors can explore include:

• 9-Lite Glass Wood Fir Exterior Front Door Over Two Raised Panels
• Solid Pine Exterior Front Raised 6-Panel Door
  

Before ordering exterior doors, review each product's materials, dimensions, finishing requirements, and installation instructions. Confirm whether a door is sold as a slab or requires additional frame and hardware components.

Don't Forget Door Hardware

Hardware is part of the project, not an add-on. Specifying it alongside the door slabs prevents delays when the doors arrive and the hardware isn't ready. Everything needed for a complete installation should be in the order at the same time.

Hardware to account for by project type:

• Hinges standard interior doors typically use 3-1/2" hinges; heavier or taller doors may need 4".
• Knobs and levers coordinate the finish with other hardware throughout the space.
• Handlesets and deadbolts required for all exterior and front doors.
• Barn door tracks and rollers must be specified alongside the door slab for a complete install.
• Bi-fold hardware track and pivot hardware required for proper operation.
• Door stops prevent doors from swinging into walls.

See the full hardware collection to find hinges, knobs, levers, handlesets, barn door hardware, and accessories.

Plan Upcoming Projects With Door to Door Co.

Door to Door carries a wide range of interior doors and exterior doors in styles from Shaker and French to raised panel, louvered, barn, and exterior wood. All doors are built from solid engineered pine or knotty pine with primed and clear unfinished options available.

For contractors ordering across multiple projects, the Door to Door partner program is designed to support trade professionals with volume ordering and project planning. Reach out at (770) 686-8446 to discuss what your upcoming project pipeline looks like and how Door to Door can support it.