Art Deco - Doors

These lovely looking Art Deco doors add a real authentic look to any interior. The overall door is a modern clean looking single large panel. What really lifts the whole piece are the stepped corner mouldings. This door would suit most Deco interiors, and could be made from a variety of woods or painted finishes. You can also mix n match: have a wood frame and painted panel, or vice versa. Or you could have glazed panels, as shown below; which could be either internalor external doors. Double glazed panels are thicker than board panels, so the door frame would need to be thicker. Or you just pick out the moulding in another colour. We've shown one of the doors after being fitted in the customer's living room below. Made to order. We don't give out prices until we've agreed a spec with a customer. Bear in mind these are bespoke doors, engineered to an exact bespoke size, and will always be much more expensive than off the shelf doors (usually knocked out in high volume in the Far East).

One point to bear in mind with this door design is that the door frame may need to be thicker than usual, especially if you want the stepped pieces on both sides of the door. The reason being is the panel has to be a certain thickness for a door, but then you have the corner pieces added, which are stepped in thickness. You can just have the corner stepped pieces on one side of the door to keep the frame thinner.

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Manufacturing the doors;

Making doors requires good joinery skills as these have to stand up to daily use for years. Whilst it's always good to see finished designs, it's interesting to see doors come together, and exactly what you are paying for. The doors start off as a pile of rough sawn lumber, and get machined up to the rail sizes next, then mortice and tenons joints are cut, and the doors dry assembled to make sure the joints have a good tight fit. Then the panels are cut, sanded and fitted and the whole door is glued and clamped up usually over night for a good solid door frame. The vertical rails are always left over length until assembly is compelet then cut to length. The bottom right photo shows the boards to be used for the corner peices in their raw state prior to machining.

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