ᐅ Room height in relation to windows and interior doors

Hello dear forum,

I am curious if there are any experiences or opinions regarding the planned ceiling heights, windows, and interior doors we currently have.

First of all: the "issue" for us is that the top edges of the windows on the ground floor will be “significantly” (?) higher than the door frames. Do you have the same situation, or is it common to align the top edge of the interior door frame with the top edge of the window? Due to the ring beam on the upper floor, we don’t have this problem there because the windows end up positioned lower and won't be as high as on the ground floor.

Ground floor
Structural height: 2875mm (113 inches)
Floor construction: 180mm (7 inches)
Roller shutter height: 312mm (12 inches)
Structural window sill height: 1125mm (44 inches)

This results in a finished room window top frame height of 2875 - 312 - 180 = 2383mm (94 inches).
The top edge of the interior door frame would then be about 2160mm (85 inches).
That is a difference of 223mm (9 inches).

Should we consider reducing the window height (e.g., by lowering the lintel) on the ground floor to achieve a more uniform alignment? We were told that the difference does not matter because the exterior windows and interior doors should be seen as separate design elements.

If we raise the doors, we end up with custom sizes, and then the doors on the ground and upper floors would be different despite having the same ceiling height, which also seems odd, right?

I briefly checked the house construction image thread and could not immediately spot such a difference in the pictures.

Best regards

The top edge of the windows does not have to be aligned with the top edge of the doors. We have a room height of 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in), the doors are 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) high (a standard size including the frame), and the windows are about 2.35 m (7 ft 9 in) tall (the maximum possible height to accommodate the external venetian blind or roller shutter box). I would always make the windows as tall as possible; anything else doesn’t look nice. The doors don’t have to match the windows at all—after all, you don’t buy furniture based on the window height either.

Best regards
Sabine

Interior doors and walls very rarely have the same height... However, since they usually do not share the same wall, this is not an issue. The window height is mainly determined by how much space is needed for elements like lintels, roller shutters, blinds, etc.

I don’t understand the problem. The frame height and window height are usually never aligned.

Window height needs to match the room height and overall appearance. Interior doors are also never located on exterior walls, so a difference is not noticeable. It’s better to make the doors taller rather than making the windows smaller.

I agree with the previous speakers: secondly, these heights do not need to be precisely coordinated. And first, if you add the difference of 223 mm to the roller shutter height of 312 mm, you get a total of 535 mm (21 inches), which would then be your "upper parapet height" between the window and the ceiling.

People often underestimate how much daylight at the ceiling is reflected light. With such high lintels, it would get too dark in the rooms more than half an hour earlier during this time of year, without adding artificial lighting.

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No connection whatsoever, truly completely irrelevant. Don’t you have an architect?