The Astoria Series includes Shaker, Arts and Crafts, Old World and Craftsmen style doors.  These doors lend themselves well to both interior and exterior doors and can be mixed and matched to meet the homeowners taste.

While people tend to use the terms Craftsmen, Shaker, Arts and Crafts interchangeably, we have distinguished between them as follows:

The Arts and Crafts doors include lites (glass) .  An Arts and Crafts door can be created with or without shelves and corbels.  Generally speaking, Arts and Crafts doors do not have distressing or patina applied as a finish. 

The Old World or Craftsmen style doors are made with multiple smaller flat panels and work well with clavos' (round, split strap or diamond shaped).  A distress added to this style door makes it more of and Old World style door while a the clean sharp lines of no distress make it more of a Craftsmen style.  With or without the distress the doors look great.  A patina, or antiquing, applied to an Old World or Craftsmen Door System really makes the entire system come to life!

Shaker doors have flat panels and square sticking.  The doors have a clean sharp look.  While shaker doors are generally not distressed, they do look fabulous with patina added.  Two common a shaker door layouts are: 

      1 - three flat panels (one on top, two on bottom)

      2 - three flat panels (one wide, three high, evenly divided)