Wood Species & Architectural Factors

At RealCraft Carriage Doors, we’re proud to build our customers beautiful solid wood doors. Sourced both locally and throughout the world, we use only the most premium quality wood. We have a core collection of twenty wood species! With so many options to choose from, you’re sure to find exactly what you need for your unique space.

And when we say solid wood, we mean it literally. We build 100% solid wood carriage doors. No veneers, nothing engineered, just top-notch woods. Because using 100% real, solid wood is the most beautiful and the most robust way to do it.

Real wood contains natural variations in color and grain pattern. But that’s one of the reasons why we build with it. The uniqueness of natural materials is totally unmatched. If you want to see samples of the unfinished wood species vs what it looks like with our Clear Satin finish, we made an interactive wood species visualizer!

Check out the graphic below to see more about each of the species that we offer. The right side of the wood sample has a clear finish, and the left is unfinished.

Interactive Wood Species Visualizer

Click and drag left and right on the image to see how the wood species look Unfinished vs. with Osmo Clear Satin EuroFinish.

Slide Right ➡ to see the Unfinished Wood Species.
Slide Left ⬅to see the Osmo Clear Satin finish.

Wood Grain Patterns

Environmental & Architectural Factors

When designing your Real Carriage doors, it’s important to consider environmental factors in combination with the architecture of your application.
Various factors play a role in the life and care of your wooden doors:

EXPOSURE: Do the doors face North, South, East, or West?
CLIMATE: What region of the United States are you in?

Hot and dry desert: Southwest like Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
Mild and wet: Pacific Northwest
Hot and humid summer with dry winters: Midwest / East Coast
Coastal climates with salt, moisture, and sun: California, East Coast, Pacific Northwest
Hurricane zones and high winds: Florida, East Coast, southern states on the coast.

PROTECTION: Will the door have any protection from sun, rain, etc. by way of an
overhang, trellis, awning, shade tree, or hood?

Below are some examples of how you can incorporate protection into your home design. Real Carriage Door does not offer these designs at this time; however, with proper planning, they are simple accents to add with the expertise of your architect, builder, or contractor.