Choosing interior doors is not as easy a task as it might seem. What material and what type of construction to choose, and how to correctly fit the door into the design of the room - read our detailed article. Compilation the best photos attached.
Interior doors are certainly extremely important element design of any room and apartment in general. After all, it is the doors that connect the two spaces that must be in harmony with both rooms, regardless of whether they are made in one general style or inspired by completely different ideas.
So, when in the process of repair you are faced with the question of choosing interior doors, you should pay attention to a few basic rules.
Doors made of fiberboard, or in other words fiberboard, are relatively cheap option. Unlike chipboard, which contains formaldehyde resins that emit toxic fumes over time, fiberboard is a more environmentally friendly material. It is a slab made from pressed wood dust, the particles of wood in which are steamed during the manufacture of the slab, and therefore they speak of production by wet pressing.
Do not think that fiberboard doors look like rear walls Soviet wall cabinets. In the production of doors, fiberboard is ennobled by pressing with special dyes. In addition, the material undergoes the so-called strengthening process, which also positively affects its external and functional qualities.
In general, MDF doors are good economical choice, which has a number of other advantages: fiberboard doors are resistant to moisture and strong enough to serve you for a long time.
MDF is an excellent compromise between the price of the product and its quality. Not only is MDF environmentally pure material, so everything else, it has an excellent texture that allows you to make any carved elements from it. So if you want a door with interesting decor, MDF will perfectly cope with this task.
MDF can be an excellent "stuffing" for an interior door. Exterior finish in this case, you can perform, for example, from natural veneer. If you are considering more budget options, then you can opt for faux veneer or lamination.
In addition to the advantages associated with possible design refinements in the performance of the door leaf, MDF has other advantages, including:
If you want the doors in your apartment to look expensive and noble, serve you for a long time, and at the same time you are ready to pay the appropriate price for it, your choice is solid wood interior doors.
A wonderful natural material, wood, has a number of advantages:
But this material, unfortunately, is not without its shortcomings:
Most often, in mass production, the surface of doors made of solid wood covered with thin sheets of natural veneer - to improve moisture and heat resistance and increase the service life. With this task veneered wooden doors are doing great!
Many modern styles, such as hi-tech or minimalism, are not too fond of natural materials such as wood or artificial imitation of wood canvases. Futurism similar styles dictates the choice of completely different materials - metal, plastic, glass.
And if metal doors- not the best choice for dividing rooms, then glass ones, on the contrary, do not look pretentious and somewhat simplify and facilitate. The matte surface makes it easy to fit them into any room and use them, including as a door for and.
In addition, the possibilities of decorating glass sheets are multifaceted! The combination of frosted glass with ordinary glass, stained-glass windows, sandblasted drawings - all this will help you choose a truly unique door for a unique interior!
Exists a large number of options for interior doors, including classic swing doors, and more interesting designs - sliding or folding. About all the details - below.
Swing doors are the simplest and most familiar type of doors. The design of such a door consists of a door leaf and a box. But also such simple doors currently boast some variety of options.
A similar design and type of opening is currently used everywhere: both as interior doors and as entrance doors.
Such a popular type door structures how sliding doors came to us from Asia, where they have been used since ancient times. Their main advantage is ergonomics.
The design is a door leaf, which is attached to a guide with rollers installed inside a beam attached to the wall. The rollers are attached to the top of the door with a special bracket.
Sliding doors are able to fit into the smallest room, allowing you not to save precious meters.
Let's highlight the main advantages sliding type discoveries:
The main disadvantages include low sound and heat insulation, as well as more high cost compared to classic sliding doors.
One way or another, sliding doors are stylish and modern version performance of interior doors. We invite you to familiarize yourself with interesting examples in our photo gallery:
Compartment doors belong to a subgroup of sliding doors, however, they differ somewhat in design from the classical type, and therefore we singled them out as an independent group.
The design of such doors is similar to classic doors. But of course, interior sliding doors differ from cabinet doors in weight and strength. In addition, do not forget about the presence of a handle and a lock.
Compartment doors are more ergonomic than classic sliding doors due to the fact that when opened, the sliding doors not only move to the side, but also overlap each other.
one more interesting view sliding doors are doors with a sliding mechanism. Such structures are perhaps the most ergonomic option of the possible ones, because the sliding of the opened door does not occur along the wall, but inside it!
The wall in this case is made of drywall, and requires partial redevelopment for mounting a U-shaped groove into the wall. The groove is best made of metal.
Installing sliding door, do not forget about the correct location of the handle!
Such a door looks very interesting in the interior of any room and has useful property tightness compared to a conventional sliding door.
Roto doors are a kind of compromise between a swing and a sliding door. The peculiarity of the roto-door is that in the process of opening the door leaf unfolds a little and in open position becomes perpendicular to the doorway.
This type of opening allows open door occupy less space and how is the design sliding door serves to save space in a small room or.
Roto doors have the advantages of soundproofing and tightness, and are the perfect solution for the bedroom!
An interesting design solution seems to us to be the design of folding doors.
An accordion door can perfectly fit into the interior of a living room or bedroom, as well as become great option in the matter of space zoning (for example, separating the bedroom from the dressing room).
Wood or plastic is often used as a material in the manufacture of an accordion door, but other options are possible.
The design of a folding door is a connection of several elements using movable hinges, and one of the ends of such a door is equipped with rollers moving along a guide, as is the case with a classic sliding door.
When choosing interior doors to an apartment, we are faced not only with the choice of material and type of opening, but also with the choice of style, which, as often happens, should “combine the incongruous”. What are we talking about? Let's tell you more.
If you are doing repairs in a separate room and together with interior design If you want to change the door as well, you are faced with the task: how to choose a door that would simultaneously fit into the new interior of the bedroom or living room and fit into the corridor? However, such a question haunts those who create a design project for a future apartment.
After all, it often happens that on the same living space in different rooms they get along completely different styles! Bedroom in style gentle Provence, a modern living room with its natural motifs, a laconic kitchen in the style of mimalism and a retro entrance hall - and each room has its own requirements not only for furniture and interior design but also to the door!
Of course, if you plan to choose a uniform style to decorate an apartment, then you won’t have to puzzle over how to fit the door into two interiors at the same time. If you decide not to go the easy way, then we can advise you to make interior doors to order - so you can arrange them on the one hand to match the design of the hallway, and on the inside - choose a finish that is more suitable for the chosen style of the room.
You can also choose doors in neutral colors and neutral design, which will allow you to fit them into any interior of your choice without any questions!
We are accustomed to the standard doorways, on average not reaching the ceiling 30-50 cm (depending on the height of your ceilings). However, designers are increasingly offering us interesting concepts with the use of high doors in the interior - literally from the floor to the ceiling! What are the advantages of such structures, in addition to an unusual design solution?
Installing interior doors with your own hands is not the easiest process, which, however, allows you to save a lot during the repair process.
Of course, the nuances of assembly and installation directly depend on the type of construction you have chosen and it is impossible to identify a universal algorithm suitable for any case.
We tried to compile for you video tutorials on installing interior doors various types to make this process as hassle free as possible! So, let's watch the video:
Swing door installation:
Sliding door installation:
Folding door installation:
Installation of rotary doors:
Since the times of the Soviet past, many have remained convinced that it is almost impossible to make fundamental changes to the situation in a typical apartment of an old panel house. Today, such doom no longer threatens to create a comfortable and stylish interior!
The standard choice of interior doors is complemented original models door leaf of any length, size and configuration.
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apartments can become truly exclusive. AT last years completely new ergonomic designs developed living rooms who skillfully decorate high doors in the interior of an apartment, the design of a house or a cottage.
There are many ways to decorate a room, make it more voluminous and spacious. Light walls, large window openings and the presence of glass surfaces in the house can radically affect the visual expansion of free space.
Most often, ceilings standard apartments have a height of no more than 2-2.50 meters and it seems that such a limit does not allow ordering the length of the doorway above the usual. Our creative designer Irina Romanova and a team of her professional colleagues will be able to prove to the customer that everything is fixable and there are no limits to modern design reincarnations!
Tall new interior doors under the ceiling, created by custom order- will decorate any interior with dignity! To install such a canvas, the master cuts out a high opening, decorating the upper wall with a spectacular ceiling molding or border. The design of a high door in the interior of an apartment can be made sliding with a “coupe” mechanism or with a cassette box that allows you to hide the canvas inside a special niche covered with drywall.
High exclusive doors from floor to ceiling will help to give any room an elegant and spectacular look, add light, space and air to the room. The mobility of such structures will ensure the creation of an ergonomic interior, and save usable area your housing.
If the room requires reduced light insulation (nursery, bedroom), it is necessary to order high, but opaque interior doors to the apartment - made of wood, plastic, metal, tinted glass, etc. Such an option will visually increase the area and height of the ceiling, but will create a comfortable darkened atmosphere for sleeping or relaxing.
1. Partition doors
Monolithic concrete walls between the kitchen and the dining room, the living room and the study, they significantly hide the square of the room and the free space. We suggest using interior glass doors in such cases. sliding partitions, combining different residential areas into one functional room.
2. Door in the form of a window
tall structures transparent doors allow sunshine beautifully fill the room, illuminating it from different angles. The glass sheet can be supplemented with thick hanging curtains (roleta, blinds or fabric). This design of doors in the interior allows you to effectively imitate a large number of windows and change the layout of the house in different variations.
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In most cases, speaking of door leaves reaching the ceiling, they recall their ability to visually “raise” the upper plane, to make the room higher. Really, - it is a noticeable and effective vertical, which is able to orient the layout of the interior.
However, the possibilities of non-standard canvases are not limited to this, and if ordinary sliding doors are simply convenient and do not take up much space, then higher similar designs allow you to instantly transform the space by combining or isolating rooms at will.
Often, as an argument against buying ready-made or purchasing high doors to order, they mention the impossibility of increasing the size of all openings in the room. If there are several openings in the hall, corridor or passage room, one of which must retain its dimensions, different height doors will not look good. Indeed, not every opening can be changed, but in this case, high interior doors with a transom can be an excellent solution.
A transom is called a “superstructure” above the canvas, which, like the rest of the structure, can be made of almost any material, be deaf or glazed, have a rectangular or arched shape.
If you want to install high structures in a “difficult” room, doors with transoms are mounted in the modified doorways, and the opening, which has become a “stumbling block”, is equipped with an identical design standard size, after which an overlay imitating a transom is installed above it.
However, transom doors can be chosen without the need to solve complex problems. They are spectacular and perfect if there is a desire to install structures up to the ceiling, but there is no desire to open bulky canvases. Such high doors in the interior can be not only classic or retro, designs with an additional top element are also available in modern design.
The transom must be identical to the door leaf and frame, they are:
made from the same material
have the same finish
match in style.
The only difference may be the presence or absence of glazing. So, deaf doors can be crowned with an arched element with glass inserts. If glazing is also present in the leaf, the type and color of the glass must be the same.
Doors to the ceiling are most often made to order, after accurate measurements. This allows you to create a canvas and a box that matches the height of the room as much as possible. Except ordinary apartments or apartments of improved planning with high ceilings, non-standard doors can be installed in cottages or houses created according to special projects, at any height of the room or hall.
More recently, by chance, I got to a master class widely known in our country, and even beyond its chapels, decorator Irina Dymova. She cited a case that happened on one of her projects as an example. She got a large spacious hall, also known as a living room, in a country house. The problem was that at the end of this hall there was a small door leading to the kitchen. Not only did the size of the door not correspond to the size of the hall, but it was also somewhat to the side, not on the main center line. Irina found some interesting solutions how to level the space. Among other things, she made a false door, in which only one part of it was a passage (highlighted in red in the photo), and the rest is decor.
I liked this idea and decided to explore other ways to change the doorway to make it appear bigger, wider, taller, depending on the decorator's goals.
A fairly common technique is to add small windows on the sides or top. If the door were the size of the entire door+window opening, it would be too heavy, bulky and expensive. And in this case you can put a standard door.
The most simple and budget solution. Most importantly, this method, unlike the previous one, can be applied when the repair is already completed. With the first method, such a number will not work, for it you need to expand the doorway, which means a lot of dirt and dust.
Just as a headdress makes a person taller, so skirting boards, platbands, capitals, portals and other decorative elements, depending on which side they are attached to, make the opening either visually higher or wider.
This decor can also be attached after the main repair.
Unlike the first paragraph, here we are talking about inserting glass or mirror into the door leaf itself. If the design of the door allows, this can be done even on an already installed door. The glazing beads that hold the panel are carefully pulled out, and glass or a mirror is installed in its place.
The effect, I think, is clear: glass / mirror adds depth to the doorway, and it psychologically seems larger.
Of course, the effect of an enlarged doorway will occur if the door moves from the outside, and not retracts into the wall. Then the opening seems to be double. We see the passage itself and the shifted door. There is an effect of a big double door.
Our perception is limited and easily deceived. If you don't have the ability to physically enlarge the space, you can visually resize it.
