Rail & Stile Doors

A wide front door with one generous pane of glass can change how the whole entrance feels. It gives the door a clean, simple look from the street and brings more daylight into the foyer. At Lusso Design, we use rail and stile fiberglass panels to create custom entry doors for openings that call for more width, more height, or a different balance of glass and frame.

What Is a Rail & Stile Fiberglass Door?

The rails are the horizontal pieces across the door, and the stiles are the vertical pieces along its sides. Together, they form the fiberglass structure that surrounds the glass.

A slim 4-inch profile puts the emphasis on the glass and suits a contemporary entrance. A wider 5½-inch profile gives the glass a more substantial border and works well when the entrance calls for a more traditional look.

Made for Oversized Entrances

Depending on the configuration, we can build door panels over 10 feet tall and over 4 feet wide. That takes us well beyond the size range of conventional steel and fiberglass doors and closer to the scale of European aluminum entry systems.

Those proportions give you more ways to design the entrance. A single wide door can work in an opening where you might otherwise consider double doors. A taller door can make better use of a high opening and give you room for a larger pane of glass. We work through the dimensions, glass and finish with you so the door feels in proportion with the rest of the house.

Hardware That Fits the Door

Oversized doors can still be fitted with a multipoint lock, which secures the door at several points along the frame. On smaller doors, a conventional tubular lockset is also an option where the configuration allows. That flexibility gives you more choice in handles, levers and finishes, so you can carry the look of the entrance through to the hardware.

Featured Project · A Nearly Four-Foot-Wide Entry Door

For this recent installation, we built a single fiberglass entry door nearly four feet wide with one large pane of glass. We worked with our supplier to fine-tune the glass dimensions and edge finish. The result is a wide, understated entrance that lets the glass and the proportions of the door do most of the work.

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