As part of designing your bathroom, there is an assortment of doors available to choose from when making selections. Some offer bold, vibrant hues while others are simple yet sophisticated. Door handles also make a difference when choosing the design style of your bathroom.
Modern home designs often incorporate glass doors to allow natural light into a room. Solid core molded doors make an excellent addition to bathrooms as they won’t warp over time due to moisture exposure.
Solid wood
Solid wood doors are timeless classics that provide a high-end appearance. Available in various species such as cherry, mahogany, oak and walnut they can also be customized and carved to suit the aesthetics of any home. Furthermore they act as good insulators while being more soundproof than hollow doors when combined with draught excluders, door curtains or letter boxes.
Engineered wood doors tend to be less susceptible to warping and cracking than solid wood doors, as they can be easily sanded down and refinished if damaged. Unfortunately, however, solid wood doors are more costly and require more maintenance in order to preserve their appearance than other kinds of doors. Furthermore, they expand and contract in response to fluctuating temperatures, making opening and closing them difficult or even impossible; heavy making them challenging to install; they may also become susceptible to moisture rotting them away or moulding over time.
Panel doors
Panel doors are timeless classics that add personality and texture to interior spaces. Their distinctive horizontally and vertically-arranged panels often come together into intricate carved patterns for added visual interest and dimension.
They come in various materials, from classic solid wood to fiberglass and vinyl options. When selecting a wood-panel interior door, it’s essential to consider its species and grain to ensure long-term beauty and functionality.
Flat panel doors create an unfussy modern aesthetic and offer endless design opportunities. Add architectural detail with square stick sticking or molding. When combined with glass inserts, these doors create the ideal balance of natural light and privacy in bathrooms. Strategic flooring and wall paint choices can further amplify this luminous effect for maximum effect – creating a harmonious design scheme between all design elements.
Sliding doors
Sliding doors are more space-efficient than hinged ones and are therefore often preferred in wardrobes, ensuites and laundries where swinging open a door would obstruct movement around furniture or amenities. They have become especially popular as wardrobe doors.
Natural light streams into rooms through windowpanes and can help save on energy costs while giving off a warm atmosphere in your home. They bring natural lighting in to make rooms feel bright and welcoming, saving money and making you feel at home!
Many sliding doors feature large panes of glass to provide stunning views of the outdoors. To increase safety, select tempered glass. It’s stronger than standard float glass, breaking into pebble-sized chunks rather than sharp ones when broken.
One downside of sliding doors is their potential to let in moisture more readily than hinged ones, typically caused by poor seal between their track and door. To combat this problem, make sure your tracks are clean of dirt and consider adding extra weather stripping for seal.
Metal doors
Although “steel door” may conjure images of heavyweight constructions or doors from technical rooms, today’s steel models are both lightweight and attractive – ideal choices for high traffic areas where security and durability are top priorities.
Steel doors come in many styles and materials to meet a range of requirements, from code compliance to hardware compatibility. Look for models with U-value and Rw-value ratings for optimal thermal and acoustic comfort.
Some models feature an invisible wiring core to support electrified mortise locks or panic hardware, while others boast cylindrical latches to accommodate easy to operate cylindrical locks instead of mortise latches. Furthermore, galvanized and galvannealed steel materials offer protection from rust while their dual layer steel construction helps regulate temperatures year-round; typically these steel doors range in gauge from 16 to 24 with thinner doors using thicker gauge steels.