Shaker Style 1 Panel-White

How many panels should your interior door have? Well! If you’re looking for a truly no-frills product that is nonetheless elegant, this is an interior door you should consider first. This one-panel model is a truly minimal shaker-style design.

While just as reliable as the interior doors in our other collections, these interior doors cost less. A lot less, in fact. Again, if simplicity is your thing, do consider this model.

The original Shakers (or Shaking Quackers, as they were styled back in the Nineteenth Century) would be immensely pleased to have this product, as it most certainly adheres to their principle of utter simplicity combined with reliability. In its heyday, the community was highly influential when it came to matters of taste, not just in the United States, but in many other countries. The Baroque period that emphasized and worshipped unapologetic, insolent luxury had come to an end. Austere classicism was the hottest new trend in architecture. Furniture, cabinets, interior doors, and other parts of decor were undergoing similar changes, with the shaker style showing the way and shaming those still trying, however subtly, to preserve some of the erstwhile ideas of sumptuousness in their construction projects.

From New England and New York the community continued steadily to spread westward, bringing with it its principles.

One of which was this: never waste material. They were firmly opposed to excessive ornamentation, layered moldings, picturesque architraves, fancy floor boards – their ideas were the exact opposite of those that had dominated the preceding era (which, need I remind you, peaked when Baroque designers introduced the new movement known today as Rococo, a style so sumptuous it would have made even Louis XIV, the celebrated Sun-King, cover his face in shame.

Simplicity, however, does not mean that dependability – and even elegance, for that matter – suddenly went out the window. On the contrary, each furniture item was highly functional and enduring – as all interior doors produced by the Almes team are.

That’s right. For instance:

As members of the Hi-Dur collection, each Shaker Style interior door is “wrapped” rather than finished: a highly technological process that, through heat and pressure, effectively fuses the materials, making the resulting product scratch-resistant, water-proof, warp-proof and fade-proof.

As all Almes doors, this one-panel job comes with our usual great features, such as the state-of-the-art hardware. The Italian-made 3D-adjustable self-lubricating concealed hinges? Absolutely. (They make the interior door a great deal easier to install than any other kind; they will never creak; and you won’t see the pin from either side of the door because, well, there is no pin).

The magnetic lock is, of course, soundless and utterly dependable. The automatic sweep, should you choose the option, will raise your interior door’s sound proofing and thermal insulation qualities well above the industry standard.

All the usual configurations are available, of course, including swing, pocket, barn, bi-fold and bypass, as well as all the standard sizes, and custom orders are most certainly welcome. Picking the right color for your interior door should be fun, too!

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.