subject: Dress Up Your Interior With New Doors [print this page] A major architectural and design feature of your home are the interior doors. Whether youre renovating or redecorating, installing new doors can change the entire look of the space. Dress up a room or accentuate an interior entranceway with stylish new doors and the details that go along with them. Youll be amazed at what this small change will do.
Budgetary Concerns for This Project
The budget of your project will depend heavily on what type of doors you choose. Simple white primed doors come in both hollow and semi solid designs. These are an affordable option although they provide very little sound protection and might be considered to have less character.
Solid pine or oak interior doors make a fine statement. They have both the charm and the solidity to dress up an area and muffle sound. Carved with straightforward patterns and available with glass and without, installing these new doors is a customized option that will be appreciated for a lifetime.
Different Styles and Materials
Hollow doors also come in a bi fold style, ideal for closets and in tight spaces where a traditional swing door wont work. The light weight and flexible design of this product makes it perfect for this situation. In certain circumstances you may also need a PVC interior door. Although its often a special order, most door retailers will carry a quality PVC door manufacturer.
You might also want an interior door with a glass insert. Excellent in the dining room or simply to add natural light, youll need to look for a glass insert that is pre-glazed. Patterned glass is available with smoked colours, etching and other marks that set the glass insert apart from a regular, common interior doors.
Coordination
Be sure that you plan your interior door project well. It would be a shame to put in new doors that do not fit in well with the surrounding dcor. Look for a panel design or a shape that is echoed in the room somewhere. Or you could use the style of the new doors to bring the room together. Add trim and door hardware to really dress up the entranceway to a room or even a closet. Make it grand or make it subtle there are a number of different combinations that can be from dramatic to understated.
In any case, youll need to match your doors well. Some homes can pull off having different doors on adjacent rooms, but most need to be well coordinated to achieve a flowing look that doesnt distract the eye.
By choosing the most attractive new doors you can afford and coordinating them with the balance of your dcor this project is sure to result in a more appealing space. Dress it up with doors and turn an everyday entrance into something grand.
