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interior door

amybarrall | Posted in General Discussion on February 2, 2011 02:12am

I am looking for ideas for an unusual interior door arrangement.  The doorway is to a 3rd floor and the door currently swings out into the hallway, blocking the entrance to another room and the hallway when it is opened.  It is in a high traffic area.  The door cannot be reversed to swing inwards because there are steps immediately inside the doorway.  There is not really a clean way to install a pocket door and it is questionable whether there is even enough room along the wall  to make this a possibility.  Any other suggestions?

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  1. TheTimberTailor | Feb 02, 2011 03:01pm | #1

    Door swing

    Since you didn' t mention it in your question I'm assuming there is a good reason for not leaving the door to swing out into the hallway but reverse the handing?  Maybe it would be less in the way if it would swing out but against a blank wall rather than blocking the other room or hallway.  Alternatively, with all the retro-chic design these days have you considered hanging beads :-) ?

  2. calvin | Feb 02, 2011 03:07pm | #2

    How about this.............

    If this is not a secure door, one which you need to seal for air or need to lock , but merely to separate the hall from the stair.

    A surface mounted "pocket door".

    Check Johnson Hardware for a pocket door arrangement that you use a surface mounted track (essentially making it a sliding barn type of door).  You can also enclose it on the hall side to make it fully appear as a pocket door-where it would slide into/behind a narrow partition you build on the hall side of the door track.  Finished it would look like a bump out in the hallway wall.

  3. AVR | Feb 02, 2011 03:36pm | #3

    Unusual

    unusual..and entertaining..

    Star Trek style door

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSBUU74SHc

  4. Grantdawg | Feb 02, 2011 04:22pm | #4

    You could go with a closet style door that hinges in the center...

    1. calvin | Feb 02, 2011 06:16pm | #5

      hey dawg

      you talking about a bifold door?

      Johnson does make a bifold hardware that would fold back when open.  A regular bifold would take up half the hallway space-not quite the whole solution.

  5. DanH | Feb 02, 2011 08:33pm | #6

    How about a bead curtain from a head shop?

    Probably some variety of bifold (maybe a double bifold) would be about the best you can do.  (I assume the stairway runs up, so you can't open in that direction much at all.)  But if you can scavenge some space alongside the stairway, you could have a hide-away door similar to what's used on some "home entertainment" cabinets.

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    MarkH | Feb 03, 2011 06:52am | #7

    Woodgrained curtains?

  7. DanH | Feb 03, 2011 07:29am | #8

    There are, of course, various rolling door options, either accordion fold or tambour style.

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    xxPaulCPxx | Feb 03, 2011 11:38am | #9

    I would be helpful to post an illustration of the floorplan here - even a simple drawing in MS Paint helps!

    1. calvin | Feb 03, 2011 07:38pm | #10

      It would be more helpful..............

      to come back and mumble or something so we know you're alive.................

      Really, no offense to the original poster-but something is wrong with a forum that doesn't make it almost impossible to not get a notice of reply as a matter of course.

      There's been a bunch of first timers here that vanish.  Do they think this is a chat room and if they don't get a beep in seconds they might as well go ask "this old house"?

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