Our customer, Dai, is turning an open formal dining room into a media room, and needed doors to separate the space from the rest of the home.  The opening is 10 feet wide, and the top of the arch is almost 9 feet tall.

Dai contacted several contractors before selecting Interior Door Concepts, but each contractor wanted to change the arch in the home by building a partial wall with 2×4 studs and sheetrock, then install a standard door unit in the middle of the opening.

Interior Door Concepts (IDC) specializes in working with the existing opening in your home to preserve the key interior design elements that make your home flow.  Arches are beautiful aspects of the interior of your home, and eliminating them just to put in a pair of interior French doors is a shame.  We’ll save your arch while giving you the doors you need!

In the case of Job 1053, IDC used four style 514 doors from Woodgrain that are built of Ponderosa Pine, and fitted with beveled glass (beveled lites).  These are gorgeous interior doors that are a valuable addition to the home.

We installed the two outer doors as fixed panels, and the inner two doors as the operating doors.  Working with our customer, we determined the way he wanted the doors to operate, and custom built them to meet his requirements.  Our customer wanted the doors to open out of the room and into the entry-way to preserve the space inside the room for the media seating.  We also fitted the doors with ball catches, so the doors will simply push open.  Dummy knobs will give the customer a way to operate the doors without getting finger-prints on the woodwork.

We were able to match the new door knobs for the interior French doors to those the customer already has in his home, thus maintaining the consistency of the interior design throughout the interior.

Our customer wanted to paint these doors himself, so we did not paint the doors before they were installed.  This is very unusual for Interior Door Concepts, as most of our customers opt for us to bring the doors to their home pre-painted with our Sherwin-Williams Kem Aqua paint.

The fixed lite above the doors is one of the key parts of our installation because it preserves the arch.  In this case, we used 3/16″ thick clear glass, and installed it in three pieces because the width of the opening (10 feet) was longer than the longest readily available plate glass.  We caulked the seam between the pieces of glass with clear silicone, which is how the professional glaziers seal large plates of glass on commercial buildings.

If you like the way this installation looks, and would like to have a similar installation in your home, please give us a call at 713-467-3667.

Take care,

Dave