interior door
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Looking for resources that make and sell mission style/prairie style/bungalow style interior doors.
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<br>Thanks!
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www.alpineglass.com
<br>Click on the link below.
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Kris, there are oodles of places to go for these. But get out a hefty checkbook! Kolbe/Kolbs, International Door, Great NW Screen and Door. Check the internet. You'll have many to choose from. There even available special order from most home center like HD and Lowes.
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<br>I actually had my carpenter make a door for a new linen closet we put in our bath. It's not quarter-sawn oak like the rest of the doors, but he matched it quite well, and it looks very nice. Our interior doors are very simple, flat recessed panel doors. And the bedroom doors have thick beveled mirrors on the interior with quarter round moulding around the mirror. We have transoms over our doors. Is this a common element in most bungalows?
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Do the transoms open? I've seen rectangular openings over doors with grill work or grates on them. They were to allow heat to travel into the rooms in the days before fan forced central heat. Since the heat stays pretty much up at the ceiling, convection currents carry it into the rooms through the transoms. At the same time, cold air exits the room under the door.
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Rick, yes the transoms to do open. There are long metal rods mounted on the door trim. You pinch these two tiny levers, and this releases the rod, and you push up to open. The doors are 82" high, then the 18" transom is above above the door, and the 6" wood trim and crown moulding are above the transom and go up to the ceiling. Reminds me of old school houses. All the bedrooms have transoms, but the closets do not. So makes sense about the heat distribution. Thanks for the history lesson.
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I remember the house I grew up in in Michigan didn't have the transoms and had a floor furnace. In the winter if you shut your bedroom door at night you pretty much froze.
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You can try combinationdoor.com they have a wide
<br>selection of doors. I've never used them, so I can't
<br>personally recommend them. Good luck!
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