Secrets of how to make invisible doors

We hear more about invisible doors and do less about them, but in some specific room types, invisible doors are the best solution. How much do you know about invisible doors?

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Editor: jane27

Today the editor will take you to learn about the most mysterious type of door – invisible door, mainly to solve these three problems for you:

1. What types of invisible doors are there?

2. Revealing the craftsmanship of the flat-open invisible door.

3. Other design considerations for invisible doors.

What types of invisible doors are there?

Before introducing the types of invisible doors, let me briefly introduce to you the situations in which invisible doors are usually used in the houses we come into contact with:

1) The modeling wall is too short or asymmetrical. Common TV backgrounds are too short.

2) House type defects, Feng Shui taboos, etc. Common toilets are opposite the kitchen, toilets are opposite the bedrooms, etc.

3) Make a secret room and want to have a room that is unknown to others.

4) In order to make the space cleaner and more integrated, hide the operation room, as well as the normally messy kitchen.

The above is the situation where invisible doors are commonly used. I will not go into details here. Let’s get back to our first question.

There are mainly four types of invisible doors:

1) Flat-opening invisible doors (most commonly used): There are rows of cabinets, and you can enter other rooms from the cabinet doors. One space (common clothescabinet to enter the bathroom), as follows:

There are also doors made purely from the wall. Most of them choose the same material as the adjacent wall, so as to achieve the effect of being \”invisible\” on the wall. .

2) Sliding invisible door: commonly used in kitchen door openings that are too narrow. The node diagram is shown below. If the kitchen has double sliding doors, both sides can be made into the structure as shown below. Push it when not in use

Into the wall, it looks like an open kitchen. When used, it zips up and takes up no space at all. The only drawback is that it is difficult to clean and maintain.

3) Folding invisible door: After the folding invisible door is opened, it only needs to occupy one side of the space. The cost is relatively high. It is common for high-end overall customization, focusing on hardware.

4) Rotating invisible door: it needs to occupy a certain space, and most of them are in the form of cabinets. Because they need to bear load, the load-bearing capacity of the hardware is required Very high.

There are so many types of invisible doors, but the most popular ones in home decoration are the flat-opening invisible doors. So today I will focus on introducing the flat-opening invisible doors to you.

Ping Revealing the craftsmanship of open invisible doors

The key points for making invisible doors are: hardware, door frames, doors and surrounding materials. Various effects can be achieved through the combination of these three. What kind of invisible door is it? Their structure is roughly as follows:

△ Schematic diagram of invisible door structure

Below we will analyze through some actual cases (A in the above picture represents the wall material , B represents the appearance of the doorMaterial) According to the structure diagram above, we will introduce the common swing-open invisible doors in two directions.

Category 1: AB materials are different

This kind of invisible door is not a true invisible door. It is often used as a frameless door, an extremely narrow frame door, or a hidden frame door. Category application.

His construction is relatively complicated. The door frame needs to be embedded and installed in advance, and the door needs to be docked multiple times, which requires very high construction technology.

Let’s take a look at the node diagram of frameless door product hardware and door nodes. It usually has the following two types.

1) Exposed invisible door

A small part of the door frame is exposed, giving it the ultimate beautiful lines. The effect diagram and node diagram are as follows.

△Loleng hidden edge embedded hardware structure diagram

2) Hidden edge invisible door

The border is completely hidden, and the rendering and node diagram are as follows.

△Loleng Tibetan edge hardware node diagram△

△Lengzang edge hardware node diagram△

No. Category 2: AB material is the same

This type of invisible door is commonly used, which can better hide the door opening and improve the beauty of the wall. It has different effects depending on the wall material. There are often the following types :

1) The surface is painted with wall paint

Painting is the simplest method. The surface of the door is sealed with gypsum board and painted together with the wall. Paint, because the door needs to be touched frequently, it is recommended to purchase wear-resistant and stain-resistant wall paint.

Because it needs to be applied together with the wall, the door needs to be finished before the painter comes in, and then handed over to the painter. The painters scrape putty and paint in one go, unlike other finished doors where everything is done and finally installed, which requires multiple dockings.

In addition, if you feel that the solid color wall is too monotonous, you can combine it with the wall shape design: such as plaster line shape and gypsum board shape.

△The invisible door is combined with the wall shape and painted with wall paint△

2) The surface is the wall The construction of paper wallpaper is similar to that of wall paint. However, because the door is often opened and closed, the door wallpaper is easy to curl and warp, and is not durable. This method is not a long-term solution and will not last long. Not recommended.

3) The surface is wallpaper and wall covering

The construction is similar to that of wall paint, but because the door is often opened and closed, the door wallpaper is easy to curl and warp, and this method is not a long-term solution and will not last long, so it is not recommended.

If it is a higher-end product, you can also customize the rock slab. The slab is designed together with the wall.

3) The surface is a hard package

When making a hard package shape, the main considerations are aesthetics and symmetry, leaving Seams and edges can be completely integrated with the wall if properly designed.

4) The surface is wood veneer

Wood veneer is most used in invisible doors because of the diversity of the material itself, which can create a Create a variety of beautiful and unified home environments

After explaining the manufacturing process of invisible doors, what other points do we need to know? Let’s move on to the introduction of our third question today.

Other design considerations for invisible doors

1. Styling design is the most critical

If the invisible door is not done well, it will not only be invisible, but also ugly, which will affect the designer’s ability. The requirements are very high, and facade details such as symmetrical shapes must be considered in place to achieve the above requirements. The effect is fake and real.

When the common invisible door does not reach the top, whether the wall details are properly considered, such as whether the other side has a symmetrical design that does not reach the top. The picture is as follows. I think this picture is still the same. It\’s easy to see \”Hey, I have an invisible door here\”

△Invisible door design should consider symmetry△

PS: In the case above, if you make a door-to-top design or the upper left corner It would look better if the red wireframe runs through the entire shape.

△The invisible door considers the overall design to be more beautiful△

Secondly, if you want to achieve the effect of being fake and real, the location of the skirting line on the door should also be designed. For example, invisible doors with surface wall paint and wall cloth veneer usually have additional skirting lines and wood trim. Except for noodles.

2. It is very important to choose good hardware products

Poor invisible door hardware may cause the door to not close tightly, which seriously affects the original intention of designing the invisible door. The effect it needs to achieve is that it can be pushed open normally and can be automatically closed after being pushed and pulled.

The invisible door hinges on the market are roughly divided into the following types: concealed hinges, Hydraulic positioning hinge, sky-earth axis hinge.

Concealed hinge: Choose the size of the concealed hinge according to the different thickness of the door. The advantage is that it can hide the front and back of the door. The door panel and door frame need to be grooved. However, ordinary concealed hinges cannot achieve the hydraulic buffering effect, and a door closer needs to be installed behind the door.

△Invisible door concealed hinge△

△The door closer can also be hidden△

Hydraulic positioning hinge: The hydraulic positioning hinge integrates multiple functions into one, because it can automatically To close the door, a door closer is no longer needed and the price will be more expensive.

△Hydraulic positioning hinge△

In addition to the above two commonly used ones, if a rotating invisible door is used, then The heaven and earth axis hinge will be used. The installation and effect are shown below: