Taos Door & Hardware Co

Specialties

We design, fabricate, finish, and install handcrafted doors built in the old world tradition. All our doors are built using 3 inch deep mortise and tenon construction. We work in solid wood only. (no veneers). We prefer to prehang the doors in their jamb at the shop, install the latch, lock, weatherstrip, threshold, and door bottom, so when it arrives onsite, the door is ready for installation and use. We can also supply a dunnage door if you wish to remove the finished door until construction is complete. This protects the finished door from damage. We also fabricate heavy duty screen and screen/​storm doors that match the design, texture, and finish of your entry door. All the glass used in our doors is saftey glass, not tempered glass. We find the saftey glass is much more difficult to break and does not make a mess of small pieces if ever it does break. We also can do stained or leaded glass inside the thermal saftey glass. We also have a metal shop and do our own forged ironwork.

History

Established in 1989.

I started this business with a marketing partner that worked in S. California for higher end houses. I came up with a method of deep wire brushing and weathering that was popular at that time and place. It was a good run, but soon learned that partners were for dancing. I slowly built up the business and my wife joined the business in 1996. We opened a small retail space in Taos and started growing from there. We bult a new woodshop about that time to expand the manufacturing end of things. We closed our in town showroom in 2008 and set up hardware and door displays at our woodshop and residence. This makes for a much more relaxed and personal approach to our services. We enjoy what we do.

Meet the Business Owner

Peter B.

Business Owner

I grew up on a small dairy farm in upstate NY near a small town called Bovina. You may have already guessed that there were a lot of dairys in the area. I learned how to do physical work there and developed a love for the outdoors. A carpenter by the name of Henry Monroe was hired by my Mom and Dad to buld an entryway closet and storage in the old farmhouse. He built it from ½″ AC plywood and put some nice thumbpush latches on the swinging doors and one door was a slider. He inspired me. After high school I went to Canton SUNY in Nothern NY, not far from the St. Lawrence Seaway. Never been so darned cold. The wind blows so much, all the trees have a permanent lean. I went to work for a construction outfit in Delhi, NY, where over the next few years I learned to build a house from bottom to top. Well, I got the idea anyway. Moved to Taos, NM in the fall of 1977 at the age of 23. Haven’t left yet.