Double doors or Single Door with Two Side Panels!

[joshea]

Can some one advise

Which is the better option for internal doors?

A set of double doors

OR

a single door with two glass side panels on either side

 

[NHG]

Depends on the use of the room really...

Will you need to get big furniture in that room which would not fit through a single door?

Personally, I would prefer a wide single door with two side panels as it is more stylish, it also extends the wall space in a room as you can have a nice lamp & table inside the glass on the sidescreen if desired .

The slave door hardly ever gets used on double doors. As the single door would be closing into a more solid frame it is quieter when closing, more draughtproof and less likely to warp.

 

[dubgem]

With double doors you will need space to open them, much more than you will need with a single door (er, twice as much!).

When I was growing up we had sliding doors (sometimes called "pocket doors") between the living room and dining room. When they were open they slid right into a gap between the two walls, so you could completely open the two rooms up to each other, which was great for occasions where you had a lot of people and need to be able to use the two rooms. And they needed no space at all for opening in either of the two rooms.

 

[Staples]

We have double doors between the sitting room and dining room. They're almost permanently open, providing a more open environment and a greater illusion of space. Equally, it's possible to simply close for more privacy or quietness is required.

Whether you want his optional sense of space is of course your own business but I imagine you wouldn't get the same effect with the single door and two glass panels that you propose.

 

[David_Dublin]

I like having our two open doors option too, as Staples says, more feeling of space, opening up the two doors to bring the rooms into one.

 

[NHG]

In my post I was assuming that its from a hallway into a living room and I was visualising a full glass door and full glass to the side panels to allow in light, but as you say maybe its between two rooms, the OP did'nt give us this info yet.

If between two rooms pocket doors as posted in an earlier post or double doors unglazed or with obscure glazing to the top.