They a door mfg up the road that has alot of doors at cheap price, These are solid pine interior doors. Well he also has alot of vented louver doors. I thought that these on the bedroom and closet doors would look good and help in circulation of a/c. Give it that key west, jimmy buffett look. But the little woman just I,m asking for trouble. What ya think/
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I guess it all depends.
"I was born in the country, razed in the city, I'm a natural born shaker from my hips to the ground"
I worked on a house that had doors like that, and they did look nice, but I wondered about sound transmission - into and out of the bedrooms. (Any young kids at home?)Good idea for the closets though - for air circulation. I built my bathroom cabinet doors with louvers for that very reason.
Louvre passageway doors? Not on your Nellie unless you and your wife/girlfriend (or girl/girl, man/man, girl/man/man, man/girl/girl, etc.) like to hump on a regular basis with brats/dogs/cats/any other livestock listening in. Had a baby in my house once. Never again. Got a snip, snip job to prevent a repeat of that. Louvre doors are also useless at keeping your clothes free of dust, dirt, and cigarette smoke. Yellowed mink fur coats tend to end up in the land-fill. Slainte, RJ.
Edited 8/23/2002 11:49:05 PM ET by Sgian Dubh
Nice web site there.
Never considered the louver doors and dust. So what do you recommend for venting closets?Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
I'm no builder rez, so I'm not sure. In my experience keeping the wardrobe or 'closet' area completely sealed off from the rest of the house and its smokey atmosphere seems to work best. A solid door in a fairly tight frame has always seemed to work pretty well, but then I smoke like a chimney I admit, and so does the nagging queen, so maybe my advice is not worth much. All I know is that louvre doors are a complete waste of time and effort if you want to exclude all the pollutants and nicotine that we smokers introduce into a house. Darn, I have to re-wash shirts I washed and ironed six months ago because they reek of smoke-- we have louvre doors, unfortunately. If you don't smoke, and none of your visitors smoke, maybe louvre doors might be okay. Slainte, RJ.
RJFurniture
Edited 8/25/2002 2:19:39 AM ET by Sgian Dubh
Great for the furnace room, gas fired, that is.
Tom