Interior Doors made from straw?

Press Release

Homestead Interior Doors, an Ohio based company, introduces doors made with agricultural fiber bi-products, a.k.a. straw. You heard it right, straw!

The straw is specially processed and mixed with environmentally friendly resins and glues to create an exceptionally strong, urea-formaldehyde free, particle board substrate known as "Microstrand" wheat. This wheat based particle board is used as a core for the door components. Real wood veneers and edgings are then overlaid onto it to create beautiful wood doors in a myriad of wood species. This process reduces the amount of wood needed to build a door by up to 80% yet still giving consumers the look and feel of an all wood door.

Pricing of wheat core doors is comparative to doors made with traditional particle core construction but is substantially less than doors made with solid wood construction. Don’t worry, Homestead Doors is still offering their beautiful solid wood doors for the traditionalists, but with the addition of the wheat core doors are now able to give their customer base more options for LEEDS credit projects and environmentally conscious consumers. For more information and literature on Homestead’s beautiful wood doors please contact them at info@HomesteadDoors.com .