Doors in the living room (hall): types, materials, color, design, choice of shape and size

Features of the choice of doors

A number of recommendations for choosing:

• When choosing a color for a door leaf, take into account the tone of the walls, furniture or floor or create contrasting combinations, for example, a light floor and a dark door.
• When purchasing a model, you need to pay attention to the size of the room, for example, for a small hall in a Khrushchev-type apartment, swing options that take up too much space will not work.
• The design of the canvases and the materials from which they are made must correspond and harmoniously fit into the overall interior design of the hall.

Options for interior doors in the interior

There are several interior models.

Double (swing)

A fairly common and familiar option, which has high performance characteristics, a wide range of design design and a particularly solemn look. However, these products have a certain disadvantage, because they take up a lot of usable space and use it not rationally.

In the photo there is a blue double swing door located in the corner in the interior of the hall.

Sliding (compartment doors)

These models allow you to add originality to the hall and emphasize the beauty of its design. Due to their practicality, functionality and compactness, they allow, not only to significantly save space in a small living room and use the space near the doorway, but can also serve as a partition for a studio apartment.

Folding door

Differs in a lot of advantages, elegant appearance, ease of management and a fairly reasonable price. Such folding structures are considered a relevant and traditional solution if you need to save space in a small room.

Single leaf

They can have a left-hand or right-hand type of opening, with or without a threshold. Single-leaf one-and-a-half doors are a classic option that fits perfectly into any living room interior.

Hidden

Such a model does not have traditional hinges and is an integral part of the wall and is sometimes very difficult to notice. The hidden door structure easily complements any interior solution and endows the atmosphere with a certain mystery.

The photo shows a one-leaf hidden door in the interior of the hall in a modern style.

French

They have an elegant, sophisticated and refined look and do not clutter up the room, and thanks to the large number of glasses, they resemble French panoramic windows and add lightness, air and weightlessness to the space.

Hinged

The sliding bed on rollers, due to the rail system, is located close to the wall, which allows not to burden the interior of the living room and save space. This mobile solution makes the design not only much more original, but also much more comfortable and functional.

Paneled

The wooden frame with panels is of high quality, long service life, excellent performance and a very solid appearance, due to which it turns out to transform the atmosphere, endowing it with special elegance and high cost.

In the photo there is a white hinged paneled door in the interior of the hall in the Scandinavian style.

Door material

The door leaf for the hall can be made from almost any material, the most common are the following:

• Glass.
• Wooden.
• Plastic.

The photo shows the interior of a modern hall with a white plastic door decorated with a green platband.

Products made of natural wood have a truly elite look and always look very elegant and expensive. Plastic canvases have high quality and aesthetic properties that are in no way inferior to wooden models. Glazed doors give the room not only ultramodernity, but also make it brighter and more airy.

Living room door color

Popular shades that remain at the forefront of fashion.

Wenge

When using this color, it turns out to add special aristocracy, luxury and nobility to the design of the hall.

The photo shows a small living room with a wenge-colored single-leaf wooden door.

White

Snow-white canvases are in perfect harmony with the interior space, filling it with incredible airiness and lightness.

Brown

Able to give the living room, not only some sharpness, piquancy and grace, but also to form an eco-friendly and natural design in it.

Beige

Products in beige tones will be an excellent option for those who do not prefer radical colors. This design is unobtrusive, sophisticated and unusually sophisticated.

The photo shows the interior of the living room with a paneled double door in a cream shade.

Grey

The door panels are gray, as if they will dissolve in the interior and will not attract too much attention, while emphasizing all the advantages of the living room. In addition, these models in light colors significantly refresh and expand the space.

The black

Such doors undoubtedly become the central element of the entire hall, giving the room character and exclusivity.

Door shapes and sizes

In addition to the standard doorway, there are many unusual solutions that allow you to give the space even more individuality and originality. For example, the arched round shape of the products will make the living room design truly original and expressive. For a spacious hall, a large door will be an excellent solution, embodying convenience, reliability and presentability.

The photo shows a large white glazed arched door in the interior of the hall.

Door Design Ideas

For this room, you can pick up an interesting door model with all kinds of decor and design bells and whistles. For example, canvases decorated with drawings, patterned carvings, aluminum and forged elements, or designs with transparent, translucent, frosted or stained glass inserts.

Doors with an unusual design in the form of painted or airbrushed images, have a particularly beautiful and elegant look, harmoniously combined with the surrounding environment, canvases decorated with patterned embossing will add solemnity and high cost to the interior.

Photo of the hall in various styles

Door models in the living room in popular styles.

Modern

For this style, it will be appropriate to use strict and very laconic deaf interior products, without unnecessary decorations or glass structures with straight lines.

Classical

Aristocratic, beautiful, expensive, but at the same time very practical one or two-door models in natural wood shades, doors from valuable solid wood or paneled canvases with decorative fittings in gold or silver, will be an excellent option for a classic correct, proportional and mute strict design.

The photo shows dark wooden glazed doors in the interior of the hall, made in a classic style.

High tech

Geometric, open and with good ergonomic characteristics, futuristic style, can be decorated with glossy or non-flashy matt aluminum, plastic, metal or glass products with a minimalist design and a touch of modernity.

Modern

The Art Nouveau trend is characterized by wooden door structures with forged elements or paneled models with opaque glass inserts decorated with patterns and ornaments. Doors should be distinguished by special aesthetics and plasticity and have wavy, fluid, smooth or rounded lines.

Provence

Provencal design assumes maximum simplicity and natural perfection. Interior swing, sliding, folding structures in delicate colors, decorated with forged details, faded patterns or painting, canvases with the effect of artificial and natural aging or doors with glazing, will organically fit into the French interior.

In the photo there is a Provence style living room with a light swing door combined with glass.

Photo in the entrance hall

Decorating a walk-through living room with two doors or three aisles leading to the kitchen, nursery or bedroom should be taken especially seriously so as not to spoil all the beauty of the design. For all doorways, the same design is most often preferred, thus it turns out to create a more integral composition in the room.

• If two or more passages are located on the same wall, then it is better to use sliding or retractable models for their design, which will look compact and not clutter up the space with such a layout.
• It is better to choose swing products for openings located on opposite walls.
• If the doors are parallel to each other on different sides of the living room walls, then for convenience, you can apply the conditional zoning of the room, for example, put something of the furniture in the middle.
• Due to the large number of openings, it is better to purchase mobile, compact or corner furniture for a walk-through hall.

The photo shows the interior of the passage hall in the Scandinavian style with white swing doors located on different walls.

Where should the doors open?

When choosing which way the doors should open, there are no strict restrictions. However, it is still necessary to take into account that single-leaf or double-leaf canvases in the open state do not interfere and do not obstruct the space of the hall. According to the philosophy of Feng Shui, it is believed that for the door to the living room it is better to choose the opening to the inside of the room, to the left of the entrance.

Photo gallery

Doors are an integral part of the overall interior picture of the hall, so they should not only harmoniously complement and support the conceived style solution, but also provide convenience, comfort and maximum functionality in the room.