Find out why wood could be the best option when it comes to your home’s fenestration

This New- England style home features Westbury Joinery’s standard casement windows (from £500), along with a feature unit made with solid glazing bars and individual glass panes, plus an engineered oakboarded door and screen (from £5,000)

Your choice of windows and external doors will go a long way to setting the tone for your home’s aesthetic – both inside and out. In the past, wood’s merits as a durable, readily available and easy-to-work material made it a natural choice for all manner of construction work, including fenestration. Today, those qualities combine with modern production techniques to ensure timber doors and windows team great looks with state-of-the-art performance.

Style & materials

Fundamentally, any kind of door or window installation you can envisage is achievable with timber – whether you’re after a heritage casement, contemporary feature window or a stunning statement entrance. “We make everything from traditional sliding sashes through to flush and stormproof casements, tilt-and-turn windows, bifolds and other external doors,” says Ralph Croxford from Croxfords.

You can choose between keenly-priced off-the-shelf designs, made-to-measure ranges or a fully bespoke service to suit your budget and project requirements. In addition, many suppliers now offer the complete spectrum of RAL hues (a colour-matching system spanning a huge variety of options for paints and stains). So you can rest assured there’s something to suit every self-builder or renovator’s tastes (as well as the planners preferences).