Concealed Door

Lake House design

4 years ago

Can you tell me if there are purpose designed fittings for creating concealed doors of this type? Thank you

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Woodford Architecture and Interiors
4 years ago
Dear Lake House Design,

We have used both floor springs and piano hinges on projects, both work, this project was a floor spring.

Floor springs require a bit more forward thinking as they need to be installed in the floor in advance of receiving the door, they quite often need adjusting once the doors settle into place. The doors with books on are fairly obviously very heavy so your floor, surrounding struture and floor spring needs to be robust.

Piano hinges, are a bit less sophisticated but they also work too.

I hope that is helpful, if it is please be kind enough to give us a quick review.

Best wishes Gavin

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Lake House design
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4 years ago
Hugely helpful — very many thanks!

Phillippa
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