Forged doors combine the elegant beauty of openwork ornament and the reliability of an impregnable fortress. Thanks to the skill of blacksmiths, products with artistic forging will not lose their value and durability over the years.
Door Types
There are the following types of forged doors.
Double (double)
Double-wing wrought-iron doors are suitable for openings from 130 cm wide. Despite the fact that such an entrance structure looks impressive, in combination with a mirror canvas and a forged ornament, it gives visual lightness to a stone facade.
In the photo the main entrance to a private house, a mirror insert on the doors creates the illusion of infinite space.
Single leaf
A single metal door decorates the faceless facade of a typical cottage, giving it a chic look of a country villa. Also, a single-door design will be the only option for a standard apartment opening.
One and a half
At the one-and-a-half door one sheet is wider than the other This is a compromise option for those cases where from time to time it is required to increase the capacity of the passage. In addition to convenience, this design looks original and allows you to "play" with the decor.
In the photo is a porch of a townhouse. The entrance portal is lined with natural stone, both doors are decorated with carvings and steel lattices in the medieval style.
Street
Doors with steel elements are selected depending on the architecture of the facade, the height of the building and the climatic zone. In places with a mild climate, you can install a lighter version with glass inserts; for cold winters, a deaf insulated door with a wrought iron decor will do. The porch and the entrance testify to the status of the owners of the house or cottage, their taste and wealth.
In the photo, a porch in a large country house, diamond windows and forged medallions remind of a knight’s castle.
Interior
Doors with forged décor are installed in large-area apartments and houses. The wrought-iron door is mounted in the openings leading to the veranda, to the winter garden, and to the wine cellar. For small-sized housing iron decor will be too heavy, in this case it is better to use it in the form of separate compositions, linings, rivets.
The photo has a two-storey dacha, the design contains forged elements, including railings and window grilles.
Door material
Forged doors are made entirely of metal or in combination with wood.
- Wood. It is difficult to find a more organic combination of materials in design than metal and wood. The patterned ornament stands out graphically on the texture of natural wood, emphasizing its natural beauty. Solid wood is a natural insulation and has high sound-absorbing properties.
- Metallic. The door, which consists of a metal leaf and a forged pattern, causes a feeling of complete protection from external encroachments. But such a product will require additional insulation and noise insulation. Metal doors decorated with forging are often used for gates or gates, among which there are true masterpieces of blacksmith art.
In the photo are massive oak doors with steel openwork and glass insert.
Examples of entrance doors with forging and glass
Glass inserts will allow you to admire the forged pattern on both sides of the door. The fragility of glass underlines the brutality of iron forging. Glass can be transparent, opaque or stained glass. You can choose the option with a window that opens if necessary. In the photo below, frosted glass serves as a backdrop for an intricate pattern.
For the entrance door is recommended to use glass of increased mechanical strength "stalinite".
Mirror inserts create the effect of continuing street space on the other side of the sashes.
Photos of forged drawings and patterns
Modern metal processing technologies allow creating decor of any complexity. The outer side of the steel sheet is decorated with volumetric forging in the form of rose flowers, ivy branches. The flat pattern can be forged as a family monogram; if there is a garden around the house, then you should take a closer look at the vegetative ornament. For modern architecture, designers recommend geometric or abstract designs. Metal is painted in different colors, black, gray and bronze are in demand, some elements are painted with gold.
In the photo, the work of the master is made elegant by gilded fragments of the pattern.
Pictured below is an art deco wrought door. Longitudinal steel rods continue the lines of the stained glass ornament, the original brass handle is made in the shape of a half-wrap.
The vine is one of the most popular floral motifs in wrought decor. Masters manage to repeat its freakish bends in metal, and grape bunches represent a classic example of bulk forging. In the photo below is a fragment of the input metal structure with a complex pattern.
Design and decoration of doors
The design of the forged door should be combined with the exterior of the building and the general stylistics of the interior.
Arched doors
Arched vault allows you to increase the entrance opening in height. This form of the opening refers to the Gothic style in architecture and will organically look against the background of a stone or brick facade.
With visor
The visor above the entrance portal reliably protects the porch from precipitations and icicles, in addition, it carries an aesthetic load. The visor serves as a frame for the front door and should correspond to it stylistically.
In the photo, the porch is decorated with an openwork visor, which is supported by two steel columns in the same style.
Antique
Forged decor is the oldest way to decorate the exterior of a building. In order to give the metal product an aged look, metal patination is applied with acid-based paints. Doors with patinated elements and brushed wood are sometimes difficult to distinguish from old ones.
Latticed
This option is used when it is required to isolate from the public access a place near the entrance door. This design improves the security of the home, blocking access to unwanted visitors directly to the entrance. The openwork pattern not only does not spoil the appearance of the porch or porch, but also becomes its decoration.
With transom
Thanks to the transom over the entrance opening, more daylight enters the hall or hallway. Such a door is installed if the ceilings are above 3.5 meters, but in some projects the transom serves as a window on the second floor or a gallery. In the photo below, the entrance construction with a transom looks majestically against a background of semi-antique stone walls.
Carved
The combination of carving and forged elements looks luxurious, but in order not to overdo it with the decor, the emphasis should be done either on wood or on metal.
In the photo, wooden doors with laconic carvings in classic style visually highlight the ornate pattern on the glass.
Photo Gallery
Forged doors are chosen by both aesthetes and those for whom they live according to the principle “my home is my fortress”. The cost of such a product is quite high, because for its manufacture we use structural steel, durable powder paints for metal, high-quality hinges and handles. But the most valuable is the skillful work of the master of artistic forging.
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