Folding interior door-book: original design and space saving

Frosted glass folding door in the bedroom

Interior door design

Folding doors are a folding structure consisting of one or two leaves, each of which, in turn, is divided into sections. When closed, these sections move on rollers along the upper guide, additionally equipped with a lock and a stopper (to fix the extreme positions).

There are two ways to attach a folded door to a door frame. In the first case, the canvas is attached to it using ordinary loops. The advantage of this method is that there is no gap between the door and the frame of the door frame. In the second case, special supports are used, which are attached to the upper beam and the floor. The canvases themselves are connected to each other with loops. The strength of the entire structure depends on the quality of the fastening of the leaf to the vertical beam of the door frame and sections to each other.

Design interior door-books

Types of folding doors

Folding doors are distinguished by the number of sections:

• book;
• harmonic.

Photos of the book door on the Internet explain how their name came about. They have two doors and fold like a book when closed. Folding doors consist of a large number of sections (about 10 cm wide) and outwardly resemble vertical blinds.

Helpful advice! Folding doors are often more popular, as they look much more solid, and due to the smaller number of sections, they are also more durable.

Folding flap door between living room and bedroom

Folding doors do not take up much space. They can be installed even in non-standard and narrow doorways, in narrow corridors, in bathrooms, in dressing rooms... Very often, folded doors and accordion doors are used as temporary partitionswhen there is a need to divide the space into functional zones.

By design features, the following types are distinguished:

• unilateral and bilateral;
• symmetrical and asymmetrical.

The folding door is used as partitions between the living room and children's play area

By the type of materials used in the production, there are:

• products from one material (wood, plastic, MDF, Chipboard, metal, glass and even fabric or leather);
• combined products (combine several different materials at the same time, for example, the frame consists of wood or metal, and the gaps are filled with plastic or glass).

Glass door-book between kitchen-dining room and terrace

Folding doors are also divided into types depending on the coating. It:

• painted;
• tinted (previously the surface is covered with transparent or translucent varnish);
• laminated (doors are covered with a special film - paper or plastic);
• veneered.

The main advantage of the fold-over door is that it does not take up much space in the open position.

Design options and photos of interior book doors

The Internet and specialized magazines are good at helping to sort out the choice, and channel creative energy in the right direction. Numerous photos of folding doors-books in them clearly demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of various materials from which they were made.

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Folding door made of wood

Pine is often used to make doors. Its inexpensive, but very beautiful due to its unusual design, the wood looks great in the interior, but it is not hard. Any mechanical impact will leave a dent on it. Therefore, other, more expensive, but also stronger types of wood, such as beech, maple and oak, are often used. Softwoods are also used in the production of doors.

Massive folding door made of natural wood

Wooden door Is a classic that will never go out of style. Such doors are extremely aesthetic, environmentally friendly, they retain heat well. To increase their service life, they are coated with mastic, varnish, painted and polished.

It is not necessary to use heavy wood. Instead, they often use MDF or chipboard. Their cost is lower than that of natural wood doors, however, they also serve much less.

Folding door open and closed

Folding door made of plastic

Another cheaper type of material is widely used now - plastic. Its resistance to adverse external influences, including moisture, allows you to install bathroom doors or in the kitchen.

This material has many color options. For example, a white PVC door will fit perfectly into an ordinary apartment with standard metal-plastic windows. And the imitation of oak, ash, walnut will be appropriate in a classic or ethnic interior.

A plastic folding partition separates the built-in kitchen from the living room

Glass door

Glass as material for interior door it can solo (in this case it is securely fixed on metal or wood lamellas), or it can be paired with wood, aluminum or plastic. Such designs are not cheap, but in the interior they look just great. In this case, the glass can be mirrored, matte, transparent, colored, fusing, polished or decorated with a sandblast pattern.

When installation glass doors, it is important to take care of safety in advance. The best option is triplex or tempered glass. It is very difficult to break them, and even if they are destroyed, they do not pose a threat to health: fragments of triplex will remain glued to the film, tempered glass will crumble into pieces with blunt edges.

Folding door made of glass with a metal frame

Interesting! A more exotic option is doors made of textiles or leather.They are not common and are made to order, but their great advantage is the ability to install them in openings of an unusual shape.

Advantages of a folding folding door

Unlike a standard hinged door, the folding folding door does not take up a lot of space and allows you to significantly save space. When closing and opening, it moves forward only one section width and completely remains within the doorway. This makes it a real find for small one-room apartments or living rooms. Thanks to her, even in the narrowest corridor there is a place for a hanger, shoe holder or a compact but roomy wardrobe.

The same stencil is applied to the walls and folding door in the bedroom

When properly installed, the folding section design is absolutely silent and safe for small children and pets. The non-threshold mechanism allows using it in apartments where people with disabilities live. This door can be easily dismantled without leaving unnecessary marks on the floor.

In specialized stores, a huge selection of interior folding doors-books of various models and colors is presented, which allows them to harmoniously fit into any style - from classics to high-tech. This is facilitated by the variety of fittings, including handles for book doors.

In the closed position, the folding door leaves are located on both sides of the built-in shelving

Disadvantages of interior folding doors

The main disadvantage of such doors is the lack of full-fledged noise and heat insulation. The gaps between the sections and the gap between the floor and the door not only cannot protect against extraneous sounds, but also do not become an obstacle to the penetration of foreign smells, steam or light into the room. This disadvantage cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be significantly reduced using special seals.

Compared to conventional swing doors, flap doors are not particularly durable (you must be especially careful when handling doors with glass inserts). Their mechanism is rather fragile, so it is not recommended to use them in rooms with high traffic or as entrance doors. Nevertheless, they are still more reliable and more convenient. compartment doorsequipped with a bottom rail.

Interior door-book between living room and home library

Often, such doors need to be additionally equipped with a door closer to ensure smooth movement.

Book doors cost more than regular doors. The price range for them on average ranges from 4 (domestic economy class PVC door-book) to 12 thousand rubles (this is how much a foreign-made accordion door costs). The hardware itself for book doors is not cheap, which greatly complicates the process of self-manufacturing of the structure.

Practical folding door with matte plastic inserts in the kitchen-living room

Installation of a folded door

Installation of a book-door does not require specific skills, and the relative simplicity of the mechanism of a book-door allows you to install it yourself, without the help of professionals.

Certain difficulties can arise only with the choice of the mechanism and the selection of accessories. The mechanism of a folding door-book should not only be of high quality, but also correspond to the weight of the canvases. This also applies to locking and fixing fittings.

Folding installation diagram interior door

Helpful advice! Preference should be given to guides made of steel or aluminum and rubberized rollers on bearings, thanks to which the sash will move apart easily and quietly.

Before installing a book-door with your own hands, you do not have to dismantle the old door frame. It is enough to remove the old door, fix the guides in the upper beam along which the rollers will move, and prepare holes for the screws on the side. After that, you can install the door-book.

When installing a folding door, it is necessary to take into account the width of the leaf in the open position

Self-production of a book-door (a video on the Internet explains all the nuances of this task in an accessible way) is not difficult. The only difficulty is the purchase of special accessories, which can be found in specialized stores.