Types of Residential Interior Doors

French Doors

• Create a soft separation between two rooms by using paned French Doors. You can see much of the other room while giving a small degree of privacy. Both rooms can provide light to the neighboring room.

Pocket Doors

• Save space by using pocket doors. These doors slide into the walls on one or both sides of the door jamb and will go flush into the wall. When you open the pocket door, the passage is completely free from hinges or impediments.

Standard Doors

• You have a broad range of choice in size, composition and style. Standard doors come in 6 foot-8 inch, 8 foot and 10 foot heights. Widths range from 24 to 36 inches. Thirty inches is most common. Expensive doors are solid hardwood. Hollow core doors cover thin framing lumber with a thick particleboard, a thin panel of wood or molded plastic and wood composition. Hang standard doors with hinges or a two-way spring hinge and no latch to allow for a swing between rooms.

Dutch Doors

• Use a Dutch door when you are planning a daycare or religious building nursery space. These doors split in the middle between top and bottom halves. Parents can easily observe what is going on with their child through the open top half while the closed bottom half keeps a mobile baby or toddler in a contained space. Frequently the top half has a window and the bottom half has a sill.

Saloon Doors

• Saloon doors signal food or drink. Mark the entry of your family room, bar or kitchen with a saloon door. You will have easy entry and exit without needing door handles. Spring-mounted on both sides of the door jamb, each door covers half the width of the opening and together they cover half the length of the door but do not reach the floor, and you can see over them.

Folding Doors

• Hide your washer and dryer, clothes closet or pantry behind bifold doors. Make a large space more versatile by installing folding panel or accordion fold doors that can divide the large space into smaller spaces for use by multiple groups simultaneously. You mount folding doors on one or both walls of the room and also have a track on the ceiling to guide the door to where it can close.

Sliding Doors

• Hang sliding doors from tracks in the top of the door jamb, and attach the bottom of the door to a door guide. Choose between a bypass door with two sections or a multipass door of three or four sections. You may find it preferable to install a wall-mounted door. Hang these doors on molding trim that surrounds the door and extends on a wall adjacent to the door opening the width of the door.