Custom made to "fit into" an early Victorian House.
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Photo: : View of the doors closed as seen within
the sitting room.
Photo 2: View from sitting room into the dining
room, with left hand pair of doors fully opened.
Photo 3: Close up of the mouldings and the
"new" Victorian glass.
General description
The customer wanted to separate the dining room from the
living room, probably as they had been once before. Brass
fittings were required along with mouldings that matched
existing mouldings. The glass had to be sympathetic to the
period.
The doors are made from best quality joinery
timber, fully mortised and tennoned. Finish is hand brushed
white gloss - as per the rest of the woodwork.
The
mouldings were achieved through the use of a router, then
after building up part of the moulding, followed by a second
pass with the router and different cutter.
The mouldings
on the living room side were cut directly into the stiles
and rails. On the dining room side they were made
separately. With the glass in place they were sprung into
position and are held with a single 1" panel pin.
The two
middle doors are suspended from "trolleys" that run in a
channel section above the doors.
Close examination of the
brass handles will reveal that on the living room side they
are in the "outer doors" and on the dining room side, the
"inner doors". Thus the doors can be opened or closed from
either side.
There is no locking mechanism as such; when
almost fully closed there is an "over centre action" that
causes the doors to lock against each other.
Photo 4: View from sitting room into dining room.
Left hand pair of doors fully open.
Photo 5: View of doors partially open , dining room
side.
Photo 6: Detail of etched glass and brass fittings.
