Shaker Style 1 Light Lami Glass – White

This interior door model is a quintessential shaker style job that has every basic advantage of this particular interior door category. Wow, that was a mouthful. Well, let’s clarify it a little, shall we? Here goes:

One. As it is with shaker style furniture which was originally popularized by the eponymous movement back in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, similarly designed interior doors – at least those manufactured by Almes Doors, anyway – embrace the unapologetic simplicity of the final product’s overall appearance. Here you’ll find no raised or sunken moldings, no ornaments, nothing at all that would remind you of the Baroque or Classicism periods. This interior door, it would appear, is a strictly functional device, as reflected by its lower-than-usual price. In other words, it will save you money without losing any of the typical advantageous features that come with pretty much any of our interior door models.

Two. The single glass panel down the middle is a feature that even the illustrious monarchs and aristocrats of old would envy you. An interior door with rows of little lites was all they could hope for as they walked up and down the great halls of their palaces and country mansions. They wished their interior doors could let in as much light as this one, only their engineers, as talented as they were, had no idea how to make a perfectly safe large glass panel. Our engineers can. Laminated glass is shatter-proof, and there will be no glare, either. It is also flexible, which makes it impact-resistant.

Three. The “wrap” method of applying the finish is nothing like its predecessors. It only became available recently thanks to a number of major technological breakthroughs, and naturally our engineers have been taking advantage of it, much to everyone’s satisfaction – the customers as well as the designers. You will find traditionally finished interior doors in some of our collections, and that’s because there’s nothing wrong with the age-old approach. Some folks like it. How could anyone blame them? Old and old-fashioned are two very different things. That said, the “wrap” method is by far more efficient, a great deal less expensive, and, because the process works on molecular level, essentially fusing the finish and the surface when the heat and pressure are applied, it renders the final product fade- proof, warp-proof, and scratch and water resistant, the latter being especially important in humid regions – such as, for instance, a major costal city.

Fade-proof? Yes. This interior door will continue to look brand-new for many years.

As all of our interior doors, this one comes with all the amazing, state-of-the-art hardware, such as the Italian-made 3D-adjustable self-lubricating concealed hinges (you might want to explore this option further in the hardware section). Apart from the fact that the adjustability makes the installation a great deal easier, while the self-lubrication ensures that your interior door will never creak, the aesthetic value of concealed hinges (i.e. no knuckles, no leaves, and no pin, imagine that!) is enormous.

This is one amazing interior door.

This is a bit tricky. Isn’t White the default finish that would look great on any interior door? Well, not quite.

W. is the color most often associated with perfection, honesty, cleanliness, newness, neutrality, and exactitude. The pigment has been known and used by humans since prehistoric times. In ancient Egypt, W. symbolized purity. Roman patricians paraded around in W. togas to distinguish themselves from the common folk. It was the color of choice of French monarchs. Architects of all epochs used W., with considerable enthusiasm, in various projects and for various reasons. In the United States, architects favored it when designing churches, capitols, and municipal buildings – which is, in fact, a tradition they inherited from classical and Renaissance architecture. According to some experts, most of the buildings in the celebrated Forum were either made of, or clad in, W. marble. In Taoism, it represents the yang or masculine energy, one of the two complementary natures of the universe. Many authors, both classical and contemporary, have referred to W. as a sign of purity, either physical (like William Shakespeare, whose treacherous usurper monarch wishes a heavenly rain would cleanse his blood-stained hand, washing it “white as snow”) or spiritual (like Tennessee Williams, who named his lead character Blanche (derived, incidentally, from the Germanic word blanc)) as a symbol of her innocent child-like spirit, perceptible from the moment she makes her first entrance (through the interior door stage-left).

Back in the Seventeenth Century, Sir Isaac Newton discovered that sunlight is composed of light with wavelengths across the visible spectrum which the human eye perceives as W. It is the lightest of the spectrum, and achromatic (hue-less) to boot, because it fully reflects and scatters all visible wavelengths of light, absorbing none. W. objects stand out in the dark. Depending on the surroundings, an interior door with W. finish might come off as emphatic or tactful, dominant or complementary. It blends seamlessly into most types of decor and, once the owner’s needs and disposition are taken into account, can symbolize – oh, so many different things, while bringing back a myriad memories: from those glorious snowy Alpine slopes and peaks to the fluffy tops of the wayward herd of cumulus cloud heap over the horizon on a balmy afternoon in the Caribbean. Tropical sand beaches are W. due to the high quantity of calcium carbonate they get from tiny bits of seashells ground to powder by the waves. In a number of cultures W. can also symbolize festivity, and be used lavishly to brighten up weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries. It is beautiful. Make sure it goes well with your interior door model, though.