French Doors

To add a touch of elegance to your home or office, there are few things you can incorporate into your decor so well as French doors. These beautifully designed creations incorporate etched and patterned glass to give a bright airy effect to whatever room they encompass. Interior French doors have a multitude of uses, from dividing rooms off from each other to being utilized as space dividers within a single large room. They make excellent shower doors and nothing sets the mood for your private patio like a wrought iron and glass French patio door. French doors can be used on your storage cabinets as well to carry a decorating motif throughout your home. French door refrigerators are also available for the person who desires the patterned glass effect all through their home.

The French door windows can be given color treatments to further enhance the beauty and individuality of your design. As well as offering some modicum of opacity, the colored or stained glass treatments in the French doors, the designs can be used as a decorative item all by themselves. For extra sparkle and a few dollars more, you can have your French doors constructed from leaded crystal and etched into faceted designs that will truly make your French door shine.

You may use French doors in an external environment as well. A frosted and patterned glass panel front door can spark up even a somber building front with its reflective properties. The French exterior doors can be constructed of steel for added security against the possibility of intruders, yet can still be designed so that the glass insets offer a softer more hospitable look.

The locks you put on French doors can be the same types as you would use on a regular wooden door though it is recommended you use key access locks only. So if an intruder were to break out a glass window pane, they would not be able to simply turn an interior latch on your door's lock.

French style doors can be used as a substitute for plain wooden doors in any door style. They are very good for sliding glass doors and by virtue of being by nature already framed, you can use the glass French doors in any folding door application. Even pocket doors done in the French style will touch up your room's looks when they are pulled shut.