Entrance doors with a mirror: reliable protection and stylish design (21 photos)
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Unfortunately, apartments in modern high-rise buildings are not well planned. The hallway in them is very narrow or very small. Small halls and in the traditional "Khrushchev". However, it is this room that forms the primary impression of the apartment and its owners, moreover, it should be convenient in the hallway. In this case, the entrance doors with a mirror save the situation, which today are installed not only in a small apartment, but also in a large suburban or cottage, and even more so in an office.
Mirror on the door: noticeable advantages
So, if the hallway is small, then the entrance doors with a mirror inside will help to refuse to install the pier glass. Mirror elements always visually expand a small space, especially if you install good lighting in the hallway and make its walls light.
The front door with a mirror inside is a good way to “push apart” the walls, this will help you competently organize the entire available space as a whole.
Mirrored door trim will make your entrance not only taller or wider, but also longer (subject to proper lighting).
However, there are other obvious advantages of such a door if your hallway is of a normal size:
- The door with a mirror looks good in the interior of almost any style: whether it is a classic hallway, country or fashionable high-tech.
- It is convenient to adjust clothes or hairstyle before the final exit to people. As a rule, each person performs this habitual ritual at the level of traditional reflexes.
- The entrance metal door with a mirror inside goes well with traditional furniture for the entrance. The color of the panel itself can go into the background. The most popular shades of panels are wenge or bleached oak, as well as ash. Demand is also just a white door.
- Typically, door manufacturers install a substrate under the mirror itself, while a safety film (transparent or bronze) is applied to the mirror sheet, which makes the doors reliable and safe.
- Panels for such doors typically have a thickness of more than 12 mm (typically use about 10 mm or less).
An important circumstance is also that such a mirror, built into the front door, does not impair its technical as well as operational characteristics, the door remains equally reliable. The choice of fittings is usually wider than with the version without a mirror. The differences relate only to the order of placement of the door peephole, it is now located not in tradition in the center of the entire canvas, but on one side, near the hardware.
Which door mirror to prefer?
The mirror element itself can be placed not only inside, as mentioned above, but also outside. The last option will not carry a functional load, it is an elegant decor that will give your door an external gloss.
Mirror: inside or outside?
Today, the range of sizes and various shapes of the door mirror is quite wide. For standard apartments, most likely, traditional entrance steel doors with an internal mirror insert are suitable, in a country house you can install more complex doors with a mirror both outside and inside. As a rule, the exterior finish is complemented by complex forging elements, small grilles.Such decor will not only add sophistication to the doors, but also increase the safety of the insert itself.
As for decoration and decoration, entrance doors with a mirror can be finished with a usual laminate or veneer, as well as special linings, small moldings, as well as art forging. The mirror itself can be decorated around the perimeter with stained glass painting, artificially aged. The main thing is that mirror decoration should fit into the general style of the room.
Elegant and reliable
Speaking about the choice of the canvas as a whole, we can say that the color of the panels also plays a large decorative role. For example, a door with dark wenge panels accentuates the elegant sophistication of your home. This trendy shade can be golden brown or dark brown with small black veins.
Wenge wood is especially popular today, not only because it has a beautiful texture and color, but also because of the high impact resistance of the wood itself, which is extremely important for entrance doors. Undoubtedly, wenge doors will cost a lot, but they will serve for a long time, they are not afraid of fungus and insects. By the way, excessive humidity is also not scary for wenge wood.
Mirrors on the doors can be not only a certain size, decorated with decor or framed by frames, but also monolithic. In the latter version, you can see your reflection in full growth. However, most often, customers prefer ordinary and standard doors to an apartment with a mirror - a rectangular canvas without tinting.
As a rule, structurally doors can have internal and external MDF panels of different colors according to your taste and choice, they have decent thermal insulation characteristics, as well as good noise protection.
The sheet of steel on the outside is usually coated with an anti-vandal polymer layer. Often used and triplex - a mirror of two layers, glued together with a film and a polymer layer. Such a safe design with a strong shock load does not fly into small fragments, since they are held on an elastic layer of polymer.
Additional benefits of metal doors with mirror
The entire door structure, as a rule, is thought out in detail, and the fittings and locks provide additional reliability. Iron entrance doors made of metal are coated with a special powder paint that prevents the appearance of corrosion, or have a finish made of PVC wood panels. The door block is made according to the individual dimensions of the customer, therefore, a mandatory pre-production step is the measurement of the door block.
In addition, the implementation of various design ideas is also possible, as customers can make an individual order at their discretion. Today, manufacturers carry out products with any pattern and decorative elements.
As for the protective properties, due to the multi-layered design and tightness, the entrance metal door protects the household from noise, cold and extraneous intrusions. The design consists of two steel sheets, a sealant, a hydraulic barrier, thermal insulation and rubber seals located around the perimeter. Such a complex design provides both good protective properties and a long service life. Regardless of the finishing material, the metal entrance door has good heat and sound insulation. From the outside, a special anti-vandal powder coating is used, which prevents the aggressive effects of the environment, corrosion and temperature changes.
So, the mirror cloth, which is installed on the inner side of the door, does not affect the quality of the cloth as a whole, not only eliminates the need to purchase and place a mirror on the wall, but it is located exactly where it should be: at the very exit from the house.