The creative possibilities are endless when it comes to pivot doors. You may have spotted one of these in an architectural magazine, on Instagram or in a friend’s newer home. These doors are slightly larger and heavier looking than standard doors, with a unique swing pattern. You’ll start seeing more and more pivot doors in home and office design, as their modern, sophisticated and effortless look is embraced as a piece of artwork.

The thing that makes a pivot door great lies in its technology. These doors don’t depend on traditional butt hinges that attach to the door frame. Rather, the door pivots or swings on one axis within the door, in an effort to distribute the door’s weight more accurately. Traditional hinge doors can’t go larger than 42” or so, but thanks to the pivot door’s interior spindle and pivot box, they can be taller, wider, heavier and more ornate.

Such a door can be crafted from wood, metal, glass or stone, and feature large-scale hardware that makes for effortless operation – all without warping.

Seamless Living

The pivot door’s greatest appeal is, perhaps, its ability to open up the outdoors to your home’s interior. Bigger doors mean bigger openings, seamlessly blending the inside with the outside, a unique lifestyle touch best reserved for a contemporary home.

No matter which material you choose and where the spindle is placed (they can go at varying locations within the door for a cool effect), pivot doors – especially entryway ones – offer a big design impact. This modern addition to any home or office rotates on a pivot box rather than on side hinges. Punctuated by large panels, these doors are known for their wide, generous openings balanced by a simple, modern appearance.

One can’t talk about contemporary architecture without mentioning pivot doors. You see them mostly in high-end custom homes, embracing an emerging trend in urban building. If you’re looking for a high indoor/outdoor connection, pivot doors may be for you.

Advantages of Pivot Doors

Check out these benefits of pivot doors:

• They are the strong, silent type.
• They are available in larger sizes than traditional doors.
• They feature high-performance hardware for smoother operation.
• Their panels are wider and taller than standard doors.
• They feature adjustable operating hardware for different travel and closure speeds.
• They bring a seamless, streamlined look to any space.
• They have balanced panels that appear to operate independently of the corresponding frame.
• They’re less obtrusive thanks to cleaner lines.
• They can be used for both exterior entry doors and interior doors.
• They don’t require a frame, which means no damage to the floor or walls.
• They feature a larger clearance area than their swinging-door counterparts.
• They offer more stability for heavy doors or for those made from fragile materials like glass.
• They require fewer pieces of hardware than other door types.
• They can blend in with a wall.

Contact Dallas Door Designs

Dallas Door Designs specializes in custom interior and exterior pivot doors to add a modern appearance to your home. Let our experts design, measure and install the right pivot door for your budget. Contact us today at 214-973-0373.

Whether you enjoy feeling a calming breeze through an open window, bask in the warmth from a skylight on a cold day, or welcome your guests through a beautifully themed front door, your windows and doors are crucial to the overall appeal of your home. Not only do they contribute greatly to your everyday enjoyment, they lend character to your home and connect you to the exterior world.

Yes, they serve a practical purpose for keeping pests and burglars out, but more importantly, they frame our view of the world. Planning to update your windows and doors? Here are helpful tips on how to choose the right window and door styles that will complement your home in the most ideal way.

Traditional

A traditional home is a blend of simple and classic architectural styles. These styles include Colonial, Cape Cod and Georgian homes, all bringing a classic look utilizing brick, stone or stucco. They usually feature front-facing gables and symmetrically-placed windows. When selecting windows for this type of home, your best bet is to go with double-hung windows.

These have two window sashes within a single frame, giving a clean and timeless look to the space. If you want to mix it up a bit, you can also try bay and bow style windows, transom windows, and traditional pattern window grilles.

When it comes to doors, traditional entryway doors are often comprised of wood or even fiberglass in wood stain finishes.

Craftsman

Craftsman-style homes originated from the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 1900s. With exteriors characterized by low-pitched roof systems, porches with square columns, exposed beams and stained glass windows, Craftsman entry doors are usually made of solid wood with a decorative glass or divided-light window at the top. Dentil shelves are also common. These are pieces of molding topped with blocks of decorative wood.

Contemporary

Contemporary homes are characterized by clean lines, asymmetrical designs, flat roofs, multilevel roof lines, and unembellished windows. Contemporary homes get a lot of natural sunlight, which is why skylights make perfect window choices. Other window styles that complement a Contemporary include fixed, sliding and casement windows.

Entryway doors should be unadorned, sleek and chic, with sharp geometric shapes. You’ll also want to choose lever handle hardware in metallic finishes. To balance it all out, the door itself should be a warm wood finish.

Spanish/Mediterranean

Inspired by the seaside villas of Spain, France and Italy, Mediterranean homes feature red terra-cotta roofs, stucco exteriors, balconies, and arched windows and doorways. Solid window choices for such a home include window walls, and wrought-iron or wooden window grilles.

What’s a window wall, you ask? This replaces an exterior wall with fixed windows spanning from floor to ceiling for awe-inspiring views.

In terms of entry doors, double doors with arched windows, and wood or wrought-iron grilles are perfect. Go with dark and rich finishes complemented by decorative hardware.

Victorian

Victorian style homes usually showcase bay windows, turrets, steep roofs, clapboard siding, rambling porches, columns, and intricate moldings. Following suit, the windows are ornate, expansive and varied throughout the exterior. Consider a mixture of double-hung, transom, arched, bay or bowed, and specialty windows.

For doors, try decorative glass panels and stained glass effects with fiberglass or wood materials featuring decorative embellishments. You may even want to place a transom window over the doorway. Bold colors are common in Victorian homes, so go ahead and try it out with your new entryway door.

Contact Dallas Door Designs

Need more inspiration? Contact us at 214-973-0373 or go online to schedule a free estimate.

If you’ve been wanting a new interior door for your Dallas home for a while now, it’s time to get going on that project. Choosing the right door style for the interior of your home can seem daunting at first, but once you partner with a custom interior door designer you trust, the process is a piece of cake.

There are many choices available to you, and each one can have a big impact on your overall design. Here are six examples of beautiful interior doors to consider.

1.  Double Door Designs

Double doors bring an elegant Provincial style to your home, with long, slender vertical bottom panels reaching up to smaller raised panels at the top of the door. The spot between the two panels showcases mitered horizontal detailing, perfect for use in a traditional home decor, particularly Georgian or French-Provincial styles.

2.  Gold Trim Doors

The elongated vertical panels are painted the same color as the surrounding walls, with the trim and molding painted a beautiful gold for the epitome of elegance. This uniquely shaped panel creates an indented shape on the bottom portion with an inverted repeat at the top. This is best used in a formal décor style.

3.  Glass Panes and Wood Panel Combination

A classic look and feel that’s great for farmhouse, coastal or traditional décor, these doors pull double duty as transparent and solid entryways within your home. Double doors like these give you a tantalizing glimpse into the room beyond. The whole look can be pulled together with door knobs that match the décor, such as antique or old-fashioned rubbed bronze finishes.

4.  Modern French Doors

The classic concept of the French door can be modernized when the décor suits. This type features sleek thin frames that add an ultra-modern appeal to any room, ideal for an urban loft or other contemporary space.

5.  Arched French Doors

Arched doors are another version of traditional French doors. While standard French doors are beautiful and classy on their own, arched versions add an even more beautiful accent, especially if you want to allow more natural light to get through. Arched French doors are best for rooms featuring luxurious décor and high ceilings.

6.  Mitered Panel Doors

This is a traditional door style with the added benefit of offering more depth to the design due to mitered layers achieving a beveled effect with the outer frame. These are offset by the raised center panel, making this type perfect for luxury contemporary, federal or Georgian home styles.

Contact Dallas Door Designs

Here at Dallas Door Designs, we can come up with a beautiful custom look for your new interior doors. Just contact us for a free estimate and consultation.

For a true conversation piece, go ahead and install pivot doors for your home or business. This modern addition to any structure rotates on a pivot box instead of on traditional side hinges. They’re ideal for large panels, popular for their wide, generous opening countered by their simple, modern appearance.

Pivot doors are a hallmark of contemporary architecture, but you can install them in virtually any type of home. Typically, pivot doors are installed in high-end custom homes pointing towards an emerging trend in urban building. The goal is to encourage a higher indoor/outdoor connection that calls for larger doors.

The Benefits: Pivot Doors

In addition to their contemporary look, pivot doors bring many advantages to the modern homeowner. Pivot doors:

• Are silent and strong
• Come in larger sizes than are offered with traditional doors.
• Boast high-performance hardware for much smoother operation of panels that are wider and taller than standard doors.
• Have adjustable operating hardware for varied traveling and closure speed.
• Have a seamless, streamlined look.
• Feature balanced panels that appear to operate independently of the corresponding frame.
• Are less obtrusive thanks to cleaner lines.
• Can be used for both exterior entry doors and interior doors.
• Have panels that can be built much wider. As such, they have square footage that is greater than a side-hinged door – in many cases up to nine feet wide by 13 feet tall.
• Don’t require a frame, which means no damage to the floor or walls.
• Have a larger clearance area than swinging doors.
• Offer stability for heavy doors or for those crafted from fragile materials like glass.
• Require fewer pieces of hardware and a simpler design than other door types.
• Have a versatile look that can blend in with a wall.

Why Should You Have Them?

Your house is your temple, where you (ideally) feel calm, relaxed, and happy. If your house is a comfort zone to relieve tension from the outside world, it’s understandable that you would want your entry door to make you feel safe and confident, with a bit of enjoyable architecture throw in for good measure. A pivot door can afford your home a modern and refined touch, with the availability of many materials, prominent dimensions and unbeatable openness.

Not only are they beautiful, they’re also highly safe and resistant, and can isolate noise due to a hermetic closing that gives you natural acoustical soundproofing. You can order your pivot door the way you want: painted, glass, lacquered, veneer, synthetic and more. A pivot door is also a great investment, an attractive component that will certainly attract the eyes of potential buyers when the time comes.

Contact Dallas Door Designs

Here at Dallas Door Designs, we offer custom interior and exterior pivot doors to add a modern touch to your home. Our experts will help you design, measure and install the right pivot door for your home and budget. Contact us today at 214-973-0373.

Doors are highly-visible, hard-working parts within a home. This is why they deserve careful thought and research when wondering which type of custom interior doors you want. Not only do they have to stand up to daily use, they have to minimize sound transfer between rooms and add beauty and style to your overall décor. That’s a lot to ask of your new doors!

Interior doors are available in many different styles and configurations, constructed from a variety of materials. The type you choose will affect your privacy, noise control, and overall visual appeal. They also have to be functional. Doors that don’t latch or close properly can be a nuisance not to mention a safety risk.

Flush vs. Panel

Interior doors generally come in two basic types: flush and panel.

• Flush doorsfeature flat, smooth surfaces that are painted or stained. They’re pretty basic and nondescript, and can complement any décor or room.
• Hollow-core flush doors are lightweight, low-cost versions of the above type of flush door, featuring an inner softwood frame around cardboard honeycomb cores. On the face, they have thin wood veneers and thus can damage easily, with significant sound transfer.
• Panel doors, made from a framework of horizontal rails and vertical stiles, feature flat or raised wood panels or even glass panes in some cases. Used frequently with solid-wood doors, panel doors don’t tend to shrink, warp or swell with humidity levels. The higher quality ones feature precisely-fitted, interlocking sections, and they cost much more than flush doors. For a less expensive option, you could go with an MDF door, or medium-density fiberboard door, which is solid and won’t swell, plus it takes finishes very well. While they must be painted or stained after purchase, MDF doors come primed.

Door Sizes

Standard interior doors are about 1 3/8 inches thick and six feet, eight inches tall. If you want taller doors, you can custom order them but be prepared to spend more.

The width of a standard interior door runs between 24 inches wide (ideal for closets and powder rooms) all the way up to 36 inches, which is necessary for handicap accessibility. If you’re thinking about creating a doorway, remember that most furniture pieces are too big to make it past doorways under 30 inches wide.

Interior doors come pre-hung in frames or as doors only, referred to as blanks or slabs. For convenience sake, pre-hung doors are the preferred choice due to their easier installation and lower labor costs.

Interior Door Types

There are many types of interior doors out there, depending on how they operate. Across the board, most frames are built the same, excluding pocket doors. Frames comprise jambs, a sill, a casing, stops and a threshold.

Hinged Doors

Hinged doors are what you see in most residential homes, and they can be either right or left handed. They attach via two or three hinges to their frames. The hinges appear on the hinge stile, while the latch and lock appear on the lock stile.

Folding Doors

Folding doors are designed to conceal a wide space where a conventional door’s swing would cause restrictions. They are mounted in hinged-together pairs, acting as both sliders and hinged doors utilizing end pivots and overhead tracks.

Pivot Doors

Adding a modern touch to any doorway, pivot doors work well in extra wide openings and rotate on a pivot box instead of traditional side hinges.

Wall-Mount Barn Doors

Interior barn doors glide flat against a wall in rooms where space is at a premium. From rustic to contemporary, barn doors come as singles, by-parting doubles, or bypassing systems comprising two or more doors.

Contact Dallas Door Designs

To request a free estimate, contact us at 214-973-0373 or email us at sales@dallasdoordesigns.com. Our designers can help you design the perfect custom made interior door for your home.

Have you ever seen a pivot door? They’re pretty cool. It’s safe to say if you install a pivot door in your home, you’re a modern, forward thinker. That’s all well and good, but are they practical? Are pivot doors right for your home? A pivot door is essentially a front door that rotates on a pivot box instead of on traditional side hinges. They’re perfect for large panels, gaining in popularity due to their wide, generous opening and simple, modern appearance that gels well with contemporary architecture.

You’ll find pivot doors installed in high-end custom homes as part of an emerging trend in urban building: encouraging a greater indoor/outdoor connection which in turn requires larger doors to ensure such a lifestyle.

Advantages of Pivot Doors

There are several benefits to installing a pivot door, in addition to its contemporary look, including:

• Available in larger sizes than are typically available in traditional doors.
• High-performance hardware offers smoother operation of panels much wider and taller than a traditional door.
• Operating hardware is adjustable in terms of traveling and closure speed depending on personal preferences.
• Seamless, streamlined look.
• Balanced panels that seem to operate independently of the frame.
• Panels can be built much wider, featuring square footage greater than a side-hinged door – in some cases up to nine feet wide and 13 feet tall.
• No frame is needed, with no need to damage the floor or walls.
• Larger clearance area than swinging doors.
• Offers stability for heavy doors or for those made out of fragile materials, such as glass.
• Requires less hardware with a much simpler design that other door types.
• Versatile aesthetic look that can be installed to blend in with a wall or kept flush with the wall yet noticeable.
• Less obtrusive due to cleaner lines.
• Can be used for entry doors, as well as interior doors for bathrooms, master suites and more.

Drawbacks of Pivot Doors

As with anything else, there are some drawbacks to pivot doors that you should keep in mind. One issue is warping. Because they are not restrained by hinges on one side to stabilize the door, the material can move over time. In addition, they swing on a point, top and bottom, providing no restraint to warping. While most pivot doors will remain stable, wood doors in particular can experience warping over the years. Most times, you won’t even notice the warping but it’s still something to think about.

If you have restrictions in your budget, pivot doors can put a dent in your expenses. That’s because they cost up to 30 percent more than a single door/sidelight combo and twice as expensive as a standard-width single door.

Despite the expense, though, you can’t deny the luxury factor that comes with pivot doors. If your budget allows and you have the space, a pivot door is a wise investment for any savvy homeowner.

Contact Dallas Door Designs

Here at Dallas Door Designs, we’re always on top of the latest trends. That’s why we offer custom interior and exterior pivot doors to add a modern touch to any doorway. Our professionals will help you design, measure and install the perfect pivot door for your home and budget. Contact us today at 214-973-0373.

One great way to make your home stand out is to install a barn door. This type of door, steeped in tradition, has graced interiors for centuries, signaling a rustic farm-house feel that’s both aesthetically pleasing and functional. Barn doors offer a variety of benefits, ranging from practicality to space-saving designs. They’re also pretty versatile, as you can use them to divide two rooms, decorate a wall, save space in a cramped room, or just because you love the style.

Barn doors are available in singles, by-parting doubles, or bypassing systems comprising two or more doors. The type you choose will depend largely on the amount of existing wall space you have as well as your personal preferences. Take a look at these considerations before attempting a barn door project.

1. Structural Stability

3. Location, Location, Location

Be aware that barn doors inherently have gaps between them and the wall because they don’t lie flush with the opening. Gaps result because they hover over the opening. Therefore, think twice about installing barn doors in rooms where privacy is essential, such as bedrooms and bathrooms, or when you’re going for noise control, such as in a home music studio or kids’ playroom.

Contact Dallas Door Designs, Serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Area

If you love the look and functionality of a barn door and want to incorporate one into your home, contact us at 214-973-0373. We would be happy to show you our many wood and iron designs and styles when it comes to barn doors. Schedule your showroom visit Monday through Saturday by appointment only.