What are the Best Bedroom Doors

Published: October 06, 2020

Whether you are building a new home or remodeling your current home, your bedroom doors are an important asset in creating privacy and comfort within your home. Whether you are trying to make a grand entrance into your master bedroom of create a sleek smooth transition into kids and guest rooms, there are many options of interior bedroom doors to suit your needs. When it comes to interior bedroom doors there is a wide variety of styles and materials to choose from.

Beautiful Sliding Barn Doors on a Rustic Bedroom

What Doors are Best?

The entryway to your bedroom is an opportunity to add a more decorative or flashy touch to your home and master bedroom. Some homeowners opt for a clean simple look with basic flush or shaker panel doors while others may opt for more modern styles like interior barn doors. While a standard flush and panel door is made to swing open and closed, barn doors are meant to slide open and closed.

If you have a larger bedroom you may opt to create a dramatic entrance with a set of French doors that either slide or swing open at the center. When it comes to rooms and closets inside your bedroom you may opt for space saving types of doors like pocket doors that slide into the wall or bi-fold doors that fold in half when opening taking up less space than a standard swinging door.

Solid Wood or Hollow Core

When it comes to construction of bedroom doors we highly recommend solid wood doors with mortise and tenon joinery. Solid wood doors are traditionally favored for their sturdy weight, classic appeal, and sound insulation qualities. Which lets face it most all homeowners want peace and quiet when they are trying to sleep and having solid wood door on your bedroom can play a big part in this. While these doors tend to be more expensive than their veneered hollow core counter parts, solid wood doors are extremely durable and will last a long time.

While hollow core doors can look like a real solid wood door, what they gain in price point they lack in other categories like insulation whether its noise or controlling a temperature within a room. Hollow core doors are made by sandwiching a thin piece of veneered plywood over a thin outer frame and typically filled with corrugated cardboard to keep the procvide the plywood some stability from caving inwards. These doors are usually not very durable and can split apart a the seams where the panel is glued to the frame.