8 Types of Doors and How They Transform Your Home’s Look

Flush Door

A flush door is one of the easiest door styles to identify as the face of the door sits entirely flat against the door frame – it doesn’t have any protruding sections.

Householders who admire simpleness will find a lot to admire about flush doors, which don’t exhibit elaborate detailing and instead just display plain lines.

Of its many areas of performance, one of a flush door’s strongest assets is the soundproofing aspect, very welcome if you have a home office where quiet is needed.

Flush doors particularly complement modern apartment blocks and contemporary homes.

Panel Door

Panelled doors have a minimum of one framed panel that will be flat, raised or recessed.

Material-wise, most get manufactured using solid wood, engineered wood or composite materials, and they are seen everywhere from entryways to bathrooms and bedrooms.

A robust solution with good weight behind it, a panel door offers great insulation and some amount of soundproofing.

Installed internally or externally, it’s rare that a panel door won’t stylistically integrate into any home design.

Glazed Door

A glazed door doesn’t need much explaining as it is what it suggests and has glass panels set within a frame.

Having glass panels will entice light into living areas, leaving them feeling more open than they are in reality and noticeably more airy too.

Views from home are best exploited with a glazed door as it will give you an almost fully transparent perspective of them.

Such is the versatility of a glazed door that it’ll fit in seamlessly at traditional and contemporary properties.

Stable Door

A stable door is incomparable to the different doors discussed as none of them are split in two like it is. This facility enables you to open the top half for ventilation whilst the bottom section remains closed to prevent children or pets from exiting.

It has a rustic charm about it, both when crafted from genuine timber or just displaying a wood-inspired effect and is often implemented as a rear entrance door.

If you reside in a cute, quaint cottage or a place way out in the countryside, there’s a lot to like about stable doors.

French Door

Doors don’t come more elegant than a French door. It has beautiful elongated panels that measure practically the full height of the double doors.

You can specify an inward or outward opening. With either configuration, this opening will be vast and lots of householders favour using it between home and garden so they can untroubled transitions to their outdoor space.

To further the natural elegance of French doors, ask for bars to be applied to the glazed inserts or for them to have a decoration pattern of some form.

Traditional or modern, it doesn’t really matter what home you have for a French door to match it.

Fire Door

Fire doors are typically located in between two areas of a building, generally in corridors and stairwells. When a fire occurs, they help stem it from spreading.

Most are built out of steel or specially treated wood and are designated a fire rating so that you can identify the amount of fire protection they provide.

Homes that have a garage attachment and townhouses are popular settings for fire doors to protect the welfare of the people living in them.

Patio Door

This glass sliding door has generous panelled sections and tends to be harnessed as a method of accessing a garden and luring light internally.

Fitted with locking systems that conform to British Security Standards, patio doors have minimal sightlines and therefore impede very little of external views when left closed.

You will be motivated to utilise your garden frequently if you have a patio door for opening the house in summer, applicable to homes old or new.

Bi-Fold Door

Bi-folds can occupy a large span of wall space and give you a colossal opening, ideal for occasions like garden parties or when you want to get a wealth of fresh air into your house.

TWC can configure bi-folding doors with up to 7 panels and to numerous sizes, highlighting just how configurable they are compared to many door offerings.

Uber-functional and immensely chic, just a small push will suffice to get a bi-fold running along its track in a concertina-like manner.

Open-plan internal layouts usually include a bi-folding door in some part of their arrangement, a common setup within modern habitats.

UPVC

Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride is the full name for the abbreviated UPVC, regularly used to craft front and back doors.

Benefits of UPVC range from the weatherproofing abilities it has, capable of resisting corrosion and such, to how excellent it is at promoting heat retention and soundproofing.

Because warping or fading won’t manifest during a UPVC door’s life, you barely need to carry out much maintenance and it avoids the need to repaint the door frame.

There’s no disputing that UPVC isn’t quite as aesthetically pleasing as timber or aluminium, but it’s the most affordable of the three doors.

Composite

Composite doors are called such because they are constructed using a series of materials including a glass-reinforced plastic, timber, UPVC and a foam filling.

The layer upon layer in a composite door frame makes for an immensely resilient design, exactly what’s required to stop a front or back entrance being broken into.

It won’t crack or distort as time progresses as the glass-reinforced plastic skin is weather-resistant and can take whatever the elements throw at it.

You’ll see that it has a very similar look to a traditional timber door, but it’s heaps more secure and doesn’t need close to the same level of maintenance.

Aluminium

You don’t expect a material with the strength of aluminium to be so lightweight, nor so flexible, useful to enable you to create doors in multiple shapes and sizes.

Unbelievably sleek and slim, aluminium doors tend to house abundant glass because of their trim composition, not as achievable with the bulk of door alternatives.

Application of an aluminium door finish entails a multi-stage powder-colouring process, giving it a lasting richness.

Abiding by the recommended door maintenance could prolong the life of an aluminium door to 40 years or beyond.

Timber

As a sustainable company, we endorse the use of responsibly sourced timber – wood is such a characterful and warm material.

Unlike low-level timber, prone to quick decay and rotting due to weathering, it can handle the elements and not deteriorate, minimising the extent of maintenance involved in sustaining its appearance.

Being so versatile also opens the door to lots of customisation, welcome news if you’d like a wooden door in a specific guise to seamlessly fit in.

Timber doors ooze charisma and very importantly, they have the strength and durability to go with it, timeless to a fault.