Features of choosing doors

A number of recommendations for choosing:

  • When choosing a color for a door leaf, take into account the tone of the walls, furniture or floor, or create contrasting combinations, for example, a light floor and a dark door.
  • When purchasing a model, you need to pay attention to the size of the room, for example, for a small hall in a Khrushchev-type apartment, swing options are not suitable, as they take up too much space.
  • The design of the panels and the materials from which they are made must match and harmoniously fit into the overall interior design of the hall.

Options for interior doors in the interior

There are several interior models.

Double (swing)

A fairly common and familiar option with high performance characteristics, a wide range of design options and especially solemn appearance. However, these products have a certain disadvantage, because they take up a lot of useful space and use it irrationally.

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The photo shows a blue double hinged door located in the corner of the interior hall.

Sliding (compartment doors)

These models allow you to add originality to the hall and emphasize all the beauty of its design. Due to their practicality, functionality and compactness, they allow not only to significantly save space in a small living room and usefully use the space near the doorway, but can also serve as a partition for a studio apartment.

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Accordion door

It has many advantages, an elegant appearance, ease of operation and a fairly reasonable price. Such folding structures are considered a relevant and traditional solution if you need to save space in a small room.

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Single-leaf

They can have left- or right-hand opening type, be with or without a threshold. Single-leaf one-and-a-half doors are a classic option that fits perfectly into any living room interior.

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Hidden

This model does not have traditional hinges and is an integral part of the wall and is sometimes very difficult to notice. The hidden door design easily complements any interior design and adds a certain mystery to the atmosphere.

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The photo shows a single-leaf hidden door in the interior of a hall in a modern style.

French

They have an elegant, sophisticated and refined look and do not clutter the room, and thanks to the large number of glasses, they resemble French panoramic windows and add lightness, air and weightlessness to the space.

French doors in the living room interior

Hanging

The sliding door leaf on rollers, due to the rail system, is located close to the wall, which allows not to weigh down the living room interior and save space. This mobile solution makes the design not only much more original, but also much more comfortable and functional.

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Paneled

A wooden frame with panels is distinguished by high quality, long service life, excellent performance and a very solid appearance, due to which it is possible to transform the environment, giving it special elegance and expensiveness.

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The photo shows a white hinged paneled door in the interior of a hall in a Scandinavian style.

Door material

The door leaf for the hall can be made of almost any material, the most common are the following:

  • Glass.
  • Wooden.
  • Plastic.

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The photo shows the interior of a modern hall with a white plastic door, decorated with a green frame.

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Products made of natural wood have a truly elite appearance and always look very elegant and expensive. Plastic panels have quality and aesthetic properties that are in no way inferior to wooden models. Glazed doors not only add ultra-modernity to a room, but also make it lighter and airier.

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Color of living room doors

Popular shades that always remain at the peak of fashion.

Wenge

Using this color adds a special aristocracy, luxury and nobility.

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The photo shows a small living room with single-leaf wooden door of wenge color.

White

Snow-white canvases perfectly harmonize with the interior space, filling it with incredible airiness and lightness.

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Brown

Can give the living room not only some sharpness, piquancy and elegance, but also to create an eco-friendly and natural design in it.

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Beige

Beige products will be an excellent option for those who do not prefer radical colors. This design is unobtrusive, elegant and incredibly sophisticated.

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The photo shows a living room interior with a cream-colored paneled double door.

Gray

Gray door panels seem to dissolve in the interior and will not attract unnecessary attention, while favorably emphasizing all the advantages of the living room. In addition, these models in light colors significantly refresh and expand the space.

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Black

Such doors undoubtedly become the central element of the entire hall, giving the room character and exclusivity.

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Door shapes and sizes

In addition to the standard doorway, there are many unusual solutions that allow to give the space even more individuality and originality. For example, the arched round shape of the products will make the design of the living room truly original and expressive. For a spacious hall, a large door will be an excellent solution, personifying convenience, reliability and presentability.

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The photo shows a large white glazed arched door in the interior of the hall.

Door design ideas

For this room, you can choose an interesting door model with all sorts of decor and designer bells and whistles. For example, canvases decorated with patterns, patterned carvings, aluminum and forged elements or structures with inserts of transparent, translucent, frosted or stained glass.

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Doors with an unusual design in the form of painted or airbrushed images have a particularly beautiful and elegant look, harmoniously combining with the surrounding environment, canvases decorated with patterned embossing will add solemnity and expensiveness to the interior.

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Photos of the hall in different styles

Door models in the living room in popular styles.

Modern

For this style, it will be appropriate to use strict and very laconic solid interior products, without unnecessary decorations or glass structures with straight lines.

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Classic

Aristocratic, beautiful, expensive, but at the same time very practical one- or two-door models in natural wood shades, doors made of valuable solid wood or paneled panels with decorative fittings in gold or silver, will be an excellent option for a classic correct, proportional and silent strict design.

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The photo shows dark wooden glazed doors in the interior of the hall, made in a classic style.

High-tech

Geometric, open and possessing good ergonomic characteristics futuristic style, can be decorated with glossy or unobtrusive matte aluminum, plastic, metal or glass products with a minimalist design and notes of modernity.

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Modern

The Art Nouveau style is characterized by wooden door structures with forged elements or panel models with opaque glass inserts decorated with patterns and ornaments. Doors should be distinguished by a special aesthetics and plasticity and have wavy, flowing, smooth or rounded lines.

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Provence

Provencal design implies maximum simplicity and natural perfection. Interior hinged, sliding, folding structures in delicate tones, decorated with forged details, faded patterns or painting, canvases with the effect of artificial and natural aging or doors with glazing, will organically fit into the French interior.

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The photo shows a living room in the Provence style with a light hinged door combined with glass.

Photo in a walk-through living room

The decoration of a walk-through living room with two doors or three passages leading to the kitchen, children’s room or bedroom should be taken especially seriously, so as not to spoil all the beauty of the design. For all doorways, the same design is most often preferred, thus creating a more integral composition in the room.

  • If two or more passages are located on one wall, then it is better to use sliding or retractable models for their design, which will look compact and not clutter the space with such a layout.
  • Hinged products are better chosen for openings located on opposite walls.
  • If the doors are parallel to each other on different sides of the living room walls, then for convenience you can use conditional zoning of the room, for example, put some furniture in the middle.
  • Due to the large number of openings, it is better to purchase mobile, compact or corner furniture for a walk-through hall.

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The photo shows the interior of a walk-through hall in Scandinavian style with hinged white doors located on different walls.

Where should doors open?

There are no strict restrictions when choosing which way the doors should open. However, it is still necessary to take into account that single-leaf or double-leaf doors, when open, do not interfere with or block the space of the hall. According to the philosophy of Feng Shui, it is believed that for the door to the living room it is better to choose an opening inward, to the left of the person entering.

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