Just like the main entrance door or your external door, internal doors to have their own set of functionalities! You have doors for opening and closing your cupboards. You require flush doors for your bathrooms or toilets. You need doors for your bedrooms. This way, you get an enhanced degree of privacy while you stay with your partner. Kids have their private rooms too. Their rooms are also buckled up with stylish variety of internal doors.
Let us delve into different types of internal doors by featuring their design, texture, layers of material used.
Flush Doors
These are known as flush doors as they are primarily designed for your washrooms and toilets. You can follow a minimalist design else go in for the aesthetics. In general, these doors have a plain facing edge across both the sides. You have a core material that is used to design each side of the door.
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You will need a door-lock hinge to open and close doors in a hassle-free manner. You can have the core taking the shape of wood, hollow or stave. Wooden doors are sturdy and solid. Hollow core flush doors however offer minimal support between the door-skin and the frame. While stave core flush doors offer intermediate durability between wooden and hollow flush.
Panel Doors
These are the most preferred variant on internal doors, you will come across. Panel doors offer you with an easy to use silhouette. These doors look stylish and trendy in any kind of home. You have panels layering from 2 up until 12. You can create styles and layers depending on your customized preferences. You can stack the panels either horizontally or vertically. Plus, the more panels you add, the more contemporary the design looks like. You can also make the panel doors glazed ones. This way, you allow more light to penetrate inside each room of your house.
Cottage Doors
Cottage doors are made from oak wood, teak wood or mahogany. The finishing touches of these doors can be spectacular to the eye. The doors suit the traditional outlook. You can also mix and match designs and shades to lend a contemporary look, to the whole décor. You can also lend a rustic style to cottage doors. These can be designed for external cum internal door-facing primate.
These doors usually feature vertical planks, which run through the full-length of the door. These planks can also run from edge to edge or be styled encasing a border.
Ledged Doors
You can have a ledged door frame for your cupboards and shelves. The construction is the same vertical facing one, like cottage doors. But you discover horizontal ledges covering the entire skew of the door. You can have two horizontal ledges or three. In case of two, you have the ledges facing the top and the bottom. For a three ledged door, you have three horizontal ledges running through the door. However, these are evenly spaced.
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Ledge and Brace
Ledge and brace are similar variants to ledged doors but with the inclusion of a brace. The ledges are placed horizontally. You have the braces running through the angles connecting the corner of one ledge to that of another. This is done via a 45-degree plane.
Fully Finished Doors
You can opt for fully finished internal doors where there is no additional work from your side. All you do is, attach the handles and hinges to the same. You need to have a door-rung in place. You can ask the carpenter to apply a stain paint or varnish based on the shade preferences you have in mind.
Semi-finished Doors
Some home-designer architects prefer handing over semi-finished doors so that you re-create them using your imagination. These are highly customized in nature. These are semi-designed matching that of a canvas. You can work around with wood-oils, varnish paints, wax shades, oil colors and lot more. This way, you customize a typical finishing look to your brand-new doors.
Primed Doors
Primed doors again allow you to customize the design, shade and type of material used. These can take panels, cottage, glazed or unglazed. You can either lend these doors with an ultra-urbane touch. Or make them appear traditional and contemporary.
These are the different styles of internal doors you can dabble upon. Have fun exploring each one of these!
Just like the main entrance door or your external door, internal doors to have their own set of functionalities! You have doors for opening...
