AIBU to be upset about having to pick a front door I don't like?

My front door is non standard too.

It was made by a local carpenter and is exactly what I wanted. I would never pay £2000 for a composite door.

The door looks fine. Don’t let your partner railroad you into any more decisions though. It’s your house.

Voted YABU, not because of the door itself, but because you allowed yourself to be railroaded into buying something you don't like for YOUR house. Why did you not stand up for yourself? Your bf does not get to dictate your choices in your own home, and he needs to learn to take more care of your cats.🙄

Its a front door, how it looks us unimportant as you will only look at it for a few seconds walking up the path. What is important is how secure it is and how long it will last.

2k isn’t a lot for a composite door and frame.

Yeah it's your house that you've bought and now a man has moved in and taken over and told you to do something and it's not what you wanted. I'd be upset. You know for the future to put your foot down and not he bossed about.

I don't understand how the door is so difficult to source. You get a solid wood door and cut it to size, surely? We've cut and made loads of our doors.

I think overthinking it. If the choice of doors is limited without paying a fortune for a made to measure one, then just think of it as job done. From your photo though I think it's nice and cheerful, the style is fine and the colour is fab.

I have a victorian terrace, same door just im black. Looks fine. Various meigh ours have similar.

Ultimately you either go for a high security modern door or you spend £££££ on a proper joiner and get a bespoke wooden door.

If you can’t learn to love it , you can save and have a bespoke one made by carpenter

I don’t think your house looks particularly Edwardian due to the windows and flat front (it’s giving me more 80s vibes), so I really wouldn’t worry about not having an Edwardian door, I think that would look more out of place.

Doesn't help you now. But wedodoors can make basically any size door! Ours is much wider than standard and they made it to size.

Can you give any more details about how he pushed you along to make a decision?

The door is ok, but I know what you mean about not in keeping with house.

Won’t it also be very dark without windows? I’d have gone for more glazing myself. At that cost I am also guessing you have a composite / UPVC door.

Why didn’t you ask a joiner to make you a wooden door instead? You can drop them right down in width as they are made to order. See ‘narrow front doors in London’ for inspo. The natural materials mean you can drop the side width right down on each side, perhaps around a central light. Yes you need to paint the door and protect it, but they last for years.

Exactly, the neighbours door is ideal.

I actually think that looks really nice ! I love the yellow . To be honest your windows aren’t in keeping with the period either so I wouldn’t get too hung up on that .
I do understand how you feel though. We are building a house and the windows that come with the kit are upvc and to be honest I really dislike them . We’ve chosen ones with the slimmest simplest frame possible so they’ll be ok . But I really hate all the front door choices !So again we’ve gone with as much glass as possible, and clear glass panels each side to detract from the fake plastic wood effect ! I am very much a real wood person, however, cost comes into it and also I’m getting too old to be re painting and maintaining wooden windows! So I’m reasonably happy.

It looks okay to me. If you aren’t keen when it’s fitted just paint it

Why didn’t you ask your neighbours where they got their doors? Or look at architectural salvage places?

What's an airlock in this context? How does the door type help the cats not get out?

I think the door looks fine.

Forget about the doo @Delara for a moment.
I’d be worried about the partner who has just got his foot in the door ( sorry, I couldn’t resist) and is dictating to you what you are to get for your house but won’t be paying for any of it.
Hmmmm

Front doors are very important. I wouldn't get it fitted but would sell it on locally to someone less fussy with a similarly narrow doorway
Why would someone be less fussy, when they just may prefer that style?

But also, having read other comments, I would ask whether you sometimes take too long to make decisions? Are you a bit of a perfectionist, procrastinator or dreamer?

I can be great at having all the ideas e.g. finding the perfect reclaimed door but not pushing on with it quickly enough to discover that (for example) the chances of finding one the right size are low, getting it adjusted and fitted too expensive, so reaching the realisation that the ‘least worst’ new option is the way to go.

So it’s possible that the bf has been a catalyst to necessary action for you. But also possible that your ‘capitulate then resent’ response is an unhealthy habit you need to examine.