How to choose the doors to the hall?

The doors to the hall play a significant role in shaping the overall look of your apartment. It is important to pay attention to many factors such as material, color, sample design as well as manufacturer. Taking into account each of the listed points, you can choose the most suitable option.

The doors to the hall are traditionally selected not only from swing options. Sliding and folding models enjoy great recognition due to their indisputable advantages.

Speaking of sliding options, one cannot fail to mention the pencil case design. A distinctive feature of this whole variety is that the guides are built into a niche in the wall, and not freely located along the wall.

Folding interior doors can be presented in two designs: "accordion" and "book". Technically, they are not much different, however, stylistically, the difference is obvious. "Accordions" are made of narrower panels and have more kinks than "books".

Single doors for the hall are practically not used. Double in the main room in the house is a much more logical option. Swing pompous specimens will fit well into a relatively narrow opening, but wider ones are better equipped with doors with other design features. For very wide openings in the entire wall, "books" are usually chosen.

In addition to the design, several other factors are responsible for the majestic and elegant look of the doorway, for example, the material from which the door is made, its dimension, as well as the color palette in which it is presented.

In general, the door for the hall can be made of various materials. The most common of these is wood. It is not necessary to choose elite models made of natural solid wood, samples from chipboard with a decorative coated film look no worse. Wooden products give a sense of stability and earthiness. Perfect for both traditional and modern interiors.

An alternative are plastic doors that have appeared on the market not so long ago. Many are prejudiced against plastic options, but in vain. If the model was produced taking into account all the rules and regulations, it will be in no way inferior in quality to a wooden one. Moreover, plastic is much cheaper and less susceptible to negative environmental influences. If the hall is located next to the bathroom, this fact is quite important.

An option suitable for the bold is the installation of all-glass doors. The glass can be either transparent or frosted. Glass partition doors are well suited when you want to combine two adjacent rooms at the same time and maintain their division into zones.

The doors to the hall are primarily determined by the dimension of the doorway, however, as a rule, it is made of an impressive scale and provides for the installation of a double-leaf door. In some cases, the one-and-a-half model can be installed, but this is rather an exception.

There is a set of correlations between the typical sizes of doorways and mounted door panels in accordance with GOST.

Thus, you can always correlate the available size of the door span and the required door.For the hall, gaps are usually made with a height of 2 m and a width of 1.2-1.5 m, depending on the total footage of the apartment.

Most often, doors of classic muted colors are installed in living rooms and halls: white, black and the entire palette of brown shades. You will hardly find a monochromatic design, much more often designers resort to using natural wood textures.

Today, the most popular are the following wood colors:

• oak;
• nut;
• Cherry;
• Red tree;
• wenge;
• teak;
• beech;
• dark angeri;
• ash vintage and some others.

Wood textures are usually made in a matte finish, as this allows them to be shown in the most favorable light. Glossy doors are available in plain colors. They are suitable for modern interiors such as hi-tech or minimalism. Traditionally, black or white models are made, but you can also find colored ones, when the interior disposes of this.

Recently, models with a pattern or photo printing are increasingly used, for example, with large flowers on the doors. This solution cannot be called innovative, however, it is quite bold to make the door the semantic center of the entire composition of the hall.

Traditionally, it was customary that for installation in the hall, designs of various opening systems are used.

These include swing, sliding and folding options:

• Swing doors the most common, they are found in almost every home. Their advantages include high performance characteristics, a wide range of design solutions. The main disadvantage is that they take up a lot of usable space, which could be used more rationally.
• Sliding doors or compartment doors allow you to save space, but require you to leave the wall completely empty to open the sash. The situation is quite different with pencil cases, as a result of the operation of which the panels, when sliding apart, "hide" directly into the wall. You should not choose this option if the entrance to the hall is located directly opposite the front door: sliding structures practically do not protect against drafts and the penetration of extraneous noise.
• Folding doors gained great popularity as a result of the combination of the advantages of swing and sliding structures. On the one hand, they allow you to save space, since they do not need to be opened outward or rolled out along the wall. On the other hand, folding structures look quite traditional, especially when it comes to "books".

For a hall in an apartment, you should not choose a simple door model. There must be a decor and all sorts of design bells and whistles, for example, carving, glass inserts, aluminum elements and the like.

Airbrush drawings can be used as an interesting blotch for glass doors. They look beautiful and elegant, and this is exactly what the audience needs. The subjects of the images are selected according to the environment, but the following themes are most often used:

• Plant motives.
• Abstraction.
• East.

Choosing a plastic door with a wood imitation coating is not the best idea, since the fact that it is a fake is noticeable to the naked eye. It is much better to choose an option with a monochromatic coating and inserts made of matte plastic "under glass".Many of these doors are decorated with patterns and embossing, which looks quite solemn, pretentious and expensive.

When choosing a door to the hall, you need to be guided by the following rules:

• Remember, you need a fancy door. Do not neglect the designs with pictures. If they do not fit into the interior of your home at all, pay attention to models with simple asymmetrical inserts. They look interesting, while being a versatile option.
• Decide in advance on the door system you need. Sliding doors require initial planning at the design stage, swing doors require sufficient free space, and folding options are often not suitable due to a certain interior style. Having decided what you want to get in the end, you will choose what you need much faster and more correctly.

• The hall is a "mirror" of the house and it is important that the framing of the entrance to it looks dignified. Choose high-quality materials from which the door and door frame are made, since this largely determines the appearance of the structure, some time after the start of operation.
• Double-leaf structures are ideal for a living room, and if there is an option to install just such a model, feel free to choose a sample with two doors. Despite the existing variety of single doors, none of them can fully replace the two-leaf doors in solemnity.

Below is a photo gallery of examples showing the scope for experimenting with doors to the hall:

• Folding translucent doors to the hall with dark contrasting inserts look modern and fashionable. They complement the interior well, while not cluttering the space of adjacent rooms. With white inserts, the effect would be different.
• Sliding doors delicately separate the entrance hall from the hallway. The choice in favor of frosted glass allows you to simultaneously divide the premises, and not to focus on the division of attention. Due to this move, the hallway seems larger.
• A one-and-a-half door is an excellent choice when the opening is too narrow for a double door and too wide for a single door. In addition, to this day, one-and-a-half structures remain a curiosity and are not very common in typical apartments.

• A classic large door with an abundance of glass inserts is a source of pride for the owners of the house. Such constructions are "friendly" only with traditional styles, such as classical, colonial, and so on. In place of such a pompous door, it was possible to install a variant with 3 doors, which would also look good.
• The usual double-leaf swing design looks good old-fashioned. Doors like these help add solidity to the room. The effect is further enhanced by the use of patterned glass inserts, also a standard feature in living room doors.

To date, the following manufacturers have gained the greatest popularity among consumers:

• "Volkhovets".
• "Art Deco".
• "Sophia".

• "Ocean".
• PC "Matador".

It is about the listed brands that buyers left the largest number of positive reviews. Many of them note the unusual design of products, good quality and a wide range of products. Overpriced prices, in some cases - irresponsible attitude of dealers towards their customers are called a significant drawback. In addition to the illiterate work of dealers, there is a frequent defect that occurs on ordered models, and in such cases, you have to wait for a replacement for a long time.

However, all of the above does not negate the fact that today each of the above companies offers products with the longest service life and with full certification, which certainly speaks in their favor. It is possible to order your favorite model via the Internet by filtering the option by the selected parameters.

Thus, most of those who bought were still satisfied with the choice, since they received exactly what they wanted. For typical openings, the choice of such models turns out to be the most advantageous, regardless of how wide they are, but for non-standard openings it is better to make a door to order.

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