Screen doors let pleasant air roll indoors. "Screen doors evoke an instant nostalgia," says Steven Momrow, co-owner of Moose Creek Ltd. in Colonie, N.Y. "They are the best of the old and the new.

The perfect storm could be as close as your front door. But today’s storm doors aren’t your grandmother’s painted wood or silver-gray aluminum screen doors, says Steve Melman, spokesman for the ...