Interior kitchen door

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Hi ladies,

Does anybody have an interior door leading to your kitchen? Not a back or side door leading to the outside, but a door that closes the kitchen off from another room. PIPs?

In our house, the kitchen is just behind the dining room. When we bought the house it had just been renovated and a builder basic door had been installed between the kitchen and dining room. I didn't like it so DH took it down. Now I'm thinking I might like to put up a door but a prettier one, like a single french door. Would this look okay? A single french door leading from the dining room into the kitchen? Here's a shot taken from the dining room leading into the kitchen before we moved in, and a photo of the door type I'm considering, minus the curtain. WDYT?

Does anybody with photoshop have a few extra minutes to do a mock up?

[simpsongal]

That would look lovely. Have you considered narrow french doors? That would look really pretty opening up into your dining space.
We have double louvred doors in that space.

[SusanBAnthony]

Our MN house has pocket doors that closed off the kitchen. I loved it bc I could put the dog in the kitchen, or if we had a bunch of people over, it helped keep rooms quieter. I could also close off the loop so the kids didnt run around like banshees, and if someone was napping it kept the noise down.

I think a french door would look nice. That would probably be cheaper than a pocket door. I wouldn't even out a curtain on it probably, just leave it with the glass so you get more light between the rooms.

[munkii]

I'm used to seeing solid swinging doors, sometimes with a window, in spaces designed like that. It serves as a way to keep the kitchen closed off from the public areas of the house. Almost every single family member of mine in Mexico has their kitchen and dining room set up this way.

A French door would look nice, though. Different, but there's nothing wrong with different.

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Nov 15, 2012 9:47:10 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

That would look lovely. Have you considered narrow french doors? That would look really pretty opening up into your dining space.
We have double louvred doors in that space.

I like that idea! My concern would be that immediately to the left in the kitchen is the stove and I'm not sure how that would be with a door so close that could bang up against it. I suppose they could be hung so they would swing open into the DR. Hmmm.

[boiler717]

We had them in our old house and took them off. Have you considered a sliding track door? Ashli at Mini Manor did I really cute one:



www.maillardvillemanor.com/2011/12/barn-door-done.html?m=1

[thatgirl2478]

A single french door would be really nice actually.

Our old house had a swinging door from the dining room to the kitchen - it was so nice to be able to shut the door & have dinner / conversation without seeing the mess.

[auntie]

My mother has a single french between her "bonus" room and her kitchen. In the model it was decorated as a dining room off the foyer (2 french doors there) but dad uses it as his golf cave. She tried sheer panels on them but it looked stupid and made the cave more cave-like.

Our old house had batwing doors, aka saloon doors.
www.google.com/imgres?q=batwing+doors&num=10&hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=568&tbm=isch&tbnid=l-d261bc4D5W7M:&imgrefurl=http://absolutedoors.com.au/wp/doors/verandah-batwing-doors/&docid=Ew6TxxxPY0X-wM&imgurl=http://absolutedoors.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/batwings.jpg&w=637&h=825&ei=gyClUIzWLIqw0QGLjICIDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=498&vpy=156&dur=1035&hovh=256&hovw=197&tx=102&ty=175&sig=117166349301735475120&page=1&tbnh=154&tbnw=114&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:98

I thought they were stupid, but my folks love them some doors between the kitchen and everywhere else. I always wanted to throw my younger sister through them like in the movies.