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WoodLtdŽ Studio redefines a
classic with the arch top French door. Simply elegant alone or in a
series of doors, the arch top adds the craftsmanship of our round
top windows to one of the most solid, durable doors available. WoodLtdŽ arch top French doors share a very important feature with
all our windows: flexibility. Choose two in-swing French door panels
for a traditional look. Have your door swing out if you need more
room inside. Rails, stiles and a lites pattern on your door can be
designed to align with accompanying transoms, round tops or side
lites.
Beautiful Home: deserves a beautiful
door and window as its focal point. It sets the tone for the entire
house and establishes a feeling of warmth, style and elegance. This
important first impression should be entrusted to a durable door of
only the highest quality, a door from WoodLtdŽ Studio Thailand. We
offer an extensive selection of doors, sidelights and transoms and
all represent excellent value. Offering hundreds of door and
art glass
combinations; WoodLtdŽ can assure you that your home will have that
"special touch and personality."
Door History: glazed doors, dating from the
17th century, first appeared as window casements extended to the
floor. French doors (double glazed) were incorporated into English
and American architecture in the late 17th and 18th centuries. At
about this time, the French developed the mirrored door. French colonial houses can be found in
Louisiana, and traditionally are one story with multiple narrow door
and window openings. The matching French doors initially had small
wrought iron balconies, which became larger with advancements in the
wrought iron technology circa 1850. Fires in 1788 and 1791 virtually
destroyed the original city of New Orleans; during rebuilding the
inclination was toward multi-storied buildings that with shops on
ground level and dwellings above, however the structures retained
the essence of French colonial architecture.
Passage Doors. The Federal style
architecture (1780 to 1820), often a simple box several rooms deep
with doors and windows arranged in strict symmetry, was intensely
influential in America following the Revolutionary war. The Federal
style often features a semi-circular fanlight over the front door,
with or without sidelights. Frequently a fanlight was integrated
into more sophisticated door surrounds, which may include an
ornamental crown or small porch. Curio & Closet Doors. Ghiberti, the
Renaissance artist, took over two decades to complete the doors that
depict significant
passages from the Old Testament. The doors are stored in the Museo
dell'Opera del Duomo. It is said that the panels created by Ghiberti
represented a dramatic transformation from the flat, dehumanized work
that typified relief sculptures of the time, incorporating the emergent
concepts of perspective and humanism.
Door Types: a door may slide or
rotate. Sometimes a door, though not just sliding, stays parallel to
the wall while opening and closing. Sliding is usually horizontal.
In opened position the door may be exposed on one side; a person
leaning on that side when the door is closed, can be hurt when the
door is opened. Also an object can obstruct the door. Sometimes the
door is constructed such that in closed state the sliding door forms
a smooth continuation of the wall, e.g. in the case of a sliding
side door of a vehicle. The door may also slide between two panels
(pocket door). In the case of rotation, the axis of rotation is
usually vertical, but e.g. for garage doors often horizontal, above
the door opening. Sometimes the axis of rotation is, with a special
construction, not in the plane of the door, on the other side than
that in which the door opens, to reduce the space required on the
side to which the door opens. This is sometimes the case in a train,
for the door to the toilet, opening inward. Many kinds of doors have
specific names, depending on their purpose. The most common variety
of door consists of a single rigid panel that fills the doorway,
hinged along one side so that it can fold away from the doorway in
one direction but not in the other. Many variations on this basic
design are possible, such as "double" doors that have two adjacent
independent panels hinged on each side of the doorway. A trapdoor is
a door that is oriented horizontally in a floor or ceiling, often
accessed via a ladder. A stable door is divided in half
horizontally. The top half can be opened to allow the horse to be
fed, while the bottom half can be closed to keep the animal inside.
Stable doors are also known as Dutch doors. A swing door has special
hinges that allow it to open either outwards or inwards, and is
usually sprung to keep it closed. Saloon doors are a pair of
lightweight swing doors often found in public bars. A blind door is
a door with no passage, a 'fake' door that is actually part of the
wall. It is used for decorative purposes. An up-and-over door is
often used in garages. Instead of hinges it has a mechanism, often
counterbalanced or sprung, that allows it to be lifted so that it
rests horizontally above the opening. A barn door is a door on a
barn. It is often/always found on barns, and because of a barn's
immense size (often) doors are subsequently big for utility. A
French door is a door that has multiple lights, the full length of
the door. Traditional French doors are assembled from individual
small pieces of glass and mullions. French doors made of double-pane
glass (on exterior doors for insulation reasons) may have the
decorative grill embedded between the panes. The decorative grill
may also be superimposed on top of single pane of
glass in the door.
A louvre door has fixed or movable wooden fins (often called slats)
which permit open ventilation whilst preserving privacy and
preventing the passage of light to the interior. Being relatively
weak structures, they are most commonly used for wardrobes and
drying rooms, where security is of less importance than good
ventilation, although a very similar structure is commonly used to
form window shutters. A flush door is a completely smooth, panelled
door, having plywood or MDF fixed over a light timber frame, the
hollow parts of which are often filled with a cardboard core
material. Flush doors are most commonly employed in the interior of
a dwelling, although slightly more substantial versions are
occasionally used as exterior doors, especially within hotels and
other buildings containing many independent dwellings. A garden door
is any door that opens to a garden or backyard. It is often used
specifically for double French doors in place of a sliding glass
door. In such a configuration, it has the advantage of a very large
opening for moving large objects in and out.
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