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What are the best doors for the bathroom?

Today the market offers a very wide range of interior doors for every taste and color.

When choosing doors for a bathroom, it should be understood that the door will be affected by high humidity and temperature, which are typical for bathrooms. Based on this, you need to choose a material that will be resistant to moisture.

Let's find out which doors are put in the bathroom? How do they differ from each other and what are their pros and cons?

Very durable solid oak doors covered with several layers of lacquer. But this option will be very expensive. Therefore, oak doors should not be considered as an option for budget repairs.

Installing a laminated door in the bathroom can be a good choice. But at the same time, you should choose doors whose ends are covered not with special paper, but with PVC tape. In this case, you will warn yourself against replacing the doors due to the fact that the melamine has peeled off at the ends.

Laminate imitates any texture well and washes well. Doors coated with such artificial veneer are not expensive.

Laminated doors can have a wide variety of designs. The appearance of laminated doors is shown in the photo below:


Plastic doors to the bathroom

You can consider the option of installing plastic doors. They are resistant to moisture, very light and do not need any special care. Plastic doors to the bathroom can be considered an excellent choice.

The only negative may be that plastic doors are usually produced in white, and if this color does not suit your interior, then it is better to look at doors made of other materials.

How plastic doors to the bathroom and toilet look in the interior is shown in the photo below:


PVC Coated Doors

An excellent choice would be doors coated with PVC film, which reliably protects the doors from splashes and minor scratches. Doors coated with PVC film can be matched to any interior, as the coating perfectly imitates the surface texture of wood and can be painted in any color. These doors are not expensive and look very nice.


Glass doors to the bathroom

Glass doors for the bathroom are gaining more and more popularity in recent years. And this is not surprising. The advantages of glass doors include exceptional moisture resistance, high strength of tempered glass, small thickness, ample opportunities for decorative design.

The glass door will not warp, peel off, it will not swell from moisture. With the help of sandblasting, glass doors are matted, a pattern is applied to them, reducing transparency.


With the help of special stickers, you can additionally increase the strength of glass doors and decorate them in accordance with the interior design.


Bathroom door width

As a rule, the width of the doors to the bathroom is taken to be 60 cm. But before buying a new door, it is better to clarify the required dimensions.

To determine the required width and height of the door to the bathroom, you will need to take measurements by measuring the doorway with a tape measure.

You need to measure cleanly between opposite sides of the opening. In this case, the distance should be measured between the bricks, and not between the surfaces of the plastered slopes. But the depth of the opening must be measured already taking into account the finish.

After the obtained dimensions for mounting the door frame, lay a distance of 15 mm, and at a distance from the door leaf to the door frame - 3-5 mm.

If you have already bought a door and it does not fit into an existing doorway, then the doorway will have to be enlarged. The dimensions of the opening are determined in reverse order based on the dimensions of the door leaf.

When measuring, do not forget that a door frame with a threshold is placed in the bathroom.


Sliding bathroom door

Recently, sliding doors to the bathroom and to the bathroom have become very popular. Such doors are distinguished by the fact that they do not open wide open, but move off to the side, like wardrobe doors.

If you decide to install such doors, they will look very aesthetically pleasing and complement the interior well. In addition, sliding doors save space and you are unlikely to run into a door in a narrow corridor, as happens with swing doors when someone leaves the bathroom.

As you can see, the choice of bathroom doors is very wide, and you can always choose which doors to put in the bathroom, starting from the general concept of interior design.

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