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Bright ideas for internal doors

last year

Hi all,

We have inherited a slightly odd design of doors.. we live in a Victorian terrace with living and dining room adjoining.

There are 2 doors from the entrance hall, one into the dining room (which we use) and one into the living room (which we don’t use as there’s carpet and it’s getting ruined)

So our dining room has become the default entrance to the downstairs from the hall.

But the doors between the living room and dining room are a nightmare. To have them open (which is better for flow and light) means that the constantly bang and hit each other (see pic).
The wall is a structural wall and I think it would be extremely hard to put in a pocket door

So what would you do? The options i can think of are

bifold if doors (but that narrows the gap and limits the light between the 2 rooms)
doors on runners (but they still bang)
swing the doors into living room (but then we need to change the thresholds - currently carpet meets wood)
take doors off (but then it’s not so cosy, people can’t sleep in the living room as easily etc)

Any other ideas?

Tia

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Comments (2)

Sonia
last year
I think I would remove the double doors. My friend had similar doors from her living room into the dining room and they were always in the way and no configuration worked. She removed them, got a carpenter to remove the door furniture on the architrave and she much prefers it. You could still accommodate sleeping visitors as long as the windows in both rooms had good blackout curtains.
Spencer Todd
12 months ago
I would remove the double doors.
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