Door sidelights are a stylish and practical way to transform the appearance of your home while increasing natural light throughout your interior. Designed to sit alongside front doors, patio doors, or French doors, sidelights feature decorative glazed panels that create a brighter, more welcoming entrance without compromising privacy.
Using frosted, bevelled, or decorative glass designs, door sidelights allow natural light to flood into your home while maintaining security and privacy. They are ideal for homeowners looking to create a modern, elegant, and visually striking entrance.
Create a brighter, more welcoming entrance with our Sidelights Range, designed to complement external doors while allowing additional natural light into your home. Door sidelights are a stylish and practical way to enhance an entrance, particularly where you want to make a doorway feel wider, brighter and more spacious without changing the main door design.
Our range of external door sidelights is suitable for a variety of residential and architectural applications, including front entrances, side entrances, porches, extensions and traditional property renovations. Available in a selection of styles and glazing configurations, sidelights can be paired with a wide range of external doors to create a coordinated and attractive entrance.
External Door Sidelights
External sidelights are glazed panels positioned alongside an entrance door, helping bring more daylight into areas that may otherwise feel dark or enclosed. When installed beside a front door, they can transform the appearance of the entrance while creating a stronger visual connection between the interior and exterior of the property.
Front door sidelights are particularly popular for larger entrance openings where a standard door alone would leave additional space around the frame. Combining a main entrance door with one or two sidelights can create a balanced, bespoke-looking entrance while making better use of the available opening.
Glazed Door Sidelights
Our glazed sidelights can complement both traditional and contemporary external doors. Clear or decorative glazing can be selected depending on the desired appearance, privacy requirements and overall design of the entrance.
For properties where natural light is a priority, glass door sidelights can help brighten entrance halls and adjoining rooms. They can also provide an elegant architectural feature, particularly when matched with the glazing style and finish of the main external door.
Sidelights for Front and External Doors
Choosing the right sidelights for front doors allows you to create a more substantial entrance without compromising on style. They can be especially effective alongside timber external doors, glazed entrance doors and traditional-style front doors.
When specifying an entrance with sidelights, it is important to consider the overall opening dimensions, frame configuration, glazing specification and compatibility between the main door and sidelights. The complete doorset should be properly measured and installed to achieve the required fit, appearance and performance.
Most commonly installed alongside front entrance doors, sidelights help create:
A brighter hallway or entrance
Enhanced kerb appeal
A more spacious feel
Improved exterior aesthetics
A premium architectural finish
Available in a variety of styles and glazing options, sidelights can complement both:
Traditional homes
Contemporary properties
Modern architectural designs
Luxury entranceways
Front Door Sidelights for Modern & Traditional Homes
Front door sidelights are especially popular in modern home design because they combine functionality with visual elegance. Frosted and obscure glazed sidelights enhance light flow while maintaining privacy from outside visibility.
Popular sidelight glazing styles include:
Frosted glass sidelights
Bevelled glass panels
Clear glazed sidelights
Decorative patterned glass
Contemporary minimalist glazing
Patio Door & French Door Sidelights
While sidelights are most commonly associated with front doors, they can also be fitted alongside patio doors and French doors to maximise natural light and improve the overall appearance of living spaces.
Adding sidelights to patio or French doors helps:
Increase daylight in living rooms
Create a more open feel
Enhance garden views
Reduce the need for wider door systems
Save valuable wall space compared to large French door openings
This makes them ideal for:
Open-plan homes
Modern extensions
Conservatories
Garden-facing living spaces
Benefits of Door Sidelights
Maximises natural light
Improves kerb appeal and entrance design
Maintains privacy with frosted glazing
Creates a brighter and more spacious interior
Suitable for front doors, patio doors, and French doors
Available in modern and traditional styles
Enhances luxury home aesthetics
Whether you are upgrading your front entrance or enhancing a living space, door sidelights provide the perfect combination of:
Style
Natural light
Privacy
Architectural elegance
Making them a timeless addition to both contemporary and traditional homes.
FAQs
In addition to matching the colour of the door, the sidelights should have the same material or stain. You can, however, incorporate one or more of those colours around exterior doors if your home has a colour scheme that includes multiple colours that work together.
A front door is typically 36 inches wide but can be ordered in 2-inch increments in either direction. Similar to front doors, sidelights are typically built in 2-inch increments, usually 12 or 14 inches in diameter.
You can add beautiful sidelights to your home by adding them to either side of a door or other fixture. The sidelight curtains can cause privacy issues, so installing sidelight curtain rods can help but this can in turn reduce the amount of light that enters the home.
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