Internal Glass Doors
Rooms inside a house are separated with internal doors. How stylish is your house is also known from your internal doors. Better the quality and style of your internal doors, more expensive will their price be, but at the end is all worth it.
These are usually made of wood, that is one of the reasons for its high price, the quality of wood. Wooden types give a more natural feel and look definitely very classy. The type of wood used can be:
Oak-they are popular due to lighter timber, long lasting, color can be made to your choice.
Mahogany- they are popular because they have more redness than other woods
Walnut- they have more color than oak
Bamboo- they are the most recent trend in household.
The most popular kind of wood used are oak and mahogany. Internal Wooden doors are advantageous as they help to prevent sound from travelling through them, creating a sound proof environment. They also need very less or no maintenance because of the moisture or also because they are not directly exposed to external factors. Even if the texture is spoilt, they can easily be varnished or painted.
Internal doors can be of the following types:
1) Sliding doors- these are great for small places with less space. they are opened horizontally by using special type of rollers that enable the door to open smoothly. These can be made using wood, glass, aluminum, etc. some of the these types are:
• Pocket doors- these disappear into a compartment built inside the wall, when they are opened.
• Bypass doors-these slide one behind the other, as generally seen in wardrobes. You cannot fully open such kind of doors.
• Sliding French doors-these kind of French doors give you the look of French doors, but slide instead of swinging in or out.
• Shoji screens-these doors give a typical Asian look, these sliding doors are made using wood and translucent paper.
• Patio sliding doors-these are like the standard sliding doors that open onto an outside area of the home.
• Standard sliding doors- these are where the door will slide over a part of the wall once you open it.
• Louvered sliding doors-these type of sliding doors louver or shutter in their design.
2) French doors- these were first used in France, to allow direct sunlight to enter a home or room as in those days there was no electricity. The traditional French doors were made by using wood, however today they can also be found made of glass and aluminum. Where the metal or aluminum doors are more durable and light in weight, the fiber glass doors come in a variety of colors. The classical French doors are generally hinged and swing in or out of the room or opened by sliding to either side of the wall in case of sliding French doors.
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