ᐅ Identical or Different Doors Within the House

The choice of doors should be based on requirements and preferences, not the floor level. Therefore, it may not make much sense to install the same type of door everywhere. Do you play music in the basement? -> Soundproof door. Do you carry heavy loads in and out frequently? -> focus on durability. Do you want to secure valuables when you are away? -> load-bearing walls and a heavy steel door. Is the door leaf obstructing the room? -> sliding door. …

This is not something I would generally judge from a distance. In our entire house, we have five interior doors: one sliding glass door, one hinged glass door, one wooden door, and two identical white doors.

hampshire schrieb:

We have 5 interior doors throughout the entire house: one sliding glass door, one swinging glass door, one wooden door, and 2 identical white doors.

Wow!! We're getting 18 doors. How do you manage with just 5 doors???
No wonder the additional cost here is higher than our total price per door. It seems like we have too many doors....

18 is actually quite a lot, but I find five to be too few. I will have nine interior doors. It will probably cost less than 300 per door – except for the double-leaf living room door with glazed elements. That one will cost more around 500-600.

Hausbautraum20 schrieb:

Wow!! We are getting 18 doors. How can anyone manage with just 5 doors???
No wonder the additional cost here alone is higher than our total price per door. It seems like we have too many doors....

Oops........we also have exactly 5 interior doors 😱

Hausbautraum20 schrieb:

It seems like we have too many doors....

No, I think you have as many as you need for yourself. For example, it also depends on the family composition when building a house, whether there is a basement, and so on.

We live in the house with four people:

• 2 apartments for the boys (2 interior doors, 5 exterior doors), each with
• 1 interior door to the bathroom (accessed via the sleeping loft)
• 1 front door
• 1 patio door
• one apartment also has a door near the kitchenette, used as an exit.
• Our area (3 interior doors, 7 exterior doors)
• Front door to the multifunctional entrance (cloakroom, hallway, and laundry room combined)
• 1 door to the guest toilet
• 1 patio door
• 1 door to the living room (with L-shaped gallery, a true multi-purpose space where the upper level is also used for sleeping)
• 2 glass folding walls leading to the terrace
• 1 patio door from the kitchen area
• 1 patio door upstairs (at ground level, due to the slope)
• 1 door to the bathroom (upstairs)
• 1 patio door from the bathroom (at ground level, due to the slope)
• House utility room (1 exterior door)
• 1 door from the garden at basement level

This totals 5 interior doors and 13 exterior doors. It may sound unusual, but it works wonderfully for us. We love how the indoor and outdoor spaces connect so harmoniously.

Yes, for example, in our basement there are 4 doors: heating room, workshop, hobby room, storage room. That’s probably not unusual.

On the ground floor, we will have significantly more doors than average because we’re building in a traditional style with an entrance hall and kitchen. So that includes:
- Entrance hall door
- Kitchen to hallway
- Kitchen to pantry
- Kitchen to dining room
- Double doors from hallway to living room

Additionally, we will not use the same doors in the basement. My parents also have less expensive doors in their basement, and I never even noticed until we specifically talked about it during the house planning!

But as others have already said, it obviously depends on the use. For me, the extreme case would be having an office with customer contact in the basement; in that case, I would use the same doors.