What are the door handles for interior doors

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• Overhead handles for wooden swing doors
• Lever handles for swing wooden doors
• Knobs for wooden doors
• Sliding door handles
• Features of handles for interior glass doors

In most cases, the interior door handle comes with the door itself, and the choice is limited to the range of fittings that the manufacturer uses. But even in this case, you need to know what they are. And even more so this knowledge is necessary when replacing a door handle..

Overhead handles for wooden swing doors

The easiest to install are the so-called handles-staples, holding on to which you can open or close the door. The main function is to provide an opportunity to pull the door towards you (to push away from you, the handle, in principle, is not needed). But simplicity of functionality does not mean limited forms and style solutions.

Here are examples of “Soviet constructivism” – nothing superfluous and a complete lack of decor:

And since such pens are still in demand, its only difference from that era, and to some extent “decoration”, is the coating with modern hammer paint. They attach such a handle directly to the canvas with four screws, and put it mainly on inexpensive paneled doors.

Modern models make it much more attractive in shape and decor. For example, such an Art Nouveau handle will serve as a real decoration for an interior door:

Even a simple rectangular “staple” can be made attractive by engraving on the staple itself and attaching it to a decorative strip. Like this classic style pen:

There are also overhead handles with hidden fastening, which, even for a simple form, will only improve its decorative qualities. They are fastened in pairs, opposite each other, on two pins, for which through holes are drilled in the door leaf.

And forged handles can be distinguished in a separate category – they are great for interiors of wooden houses in a rustic style..

The only drawback of the overhead handle is the lack of a latch. This can affect if the door frame has lost its vertical. Moreover, such a loss does not necessarily occur due to poor-quality installation of the box – any house is subject to shrinkage and settlement (and wood also shrinks). And so that the door does not spontaneously open (or close), clamps are added to the overhead handles, which consist of two parts. The main part of the mechanism with a roller or ball is cut into the end of the canvas, and the counterpart – into the box.

Lever handles for swing wooden doors

Most interior door handles have a movable handle that activates the latch. That is, with the help of the handle, the door is not only opened or closed, but also fixed in the door frame.

The simplest push model with a conventional latch when assembled looks like this:

In addition, such a handle can also have a lock function. The locking mechanism can be operated in two ways – either from inside the room using the rotary knob:

either outside with a key.

And although the larva is arranged according to the principle of a disk lock, its degree of secrecy is minimal. And the lock itself does not protect against breaking the door, but simply protects the personal space of the owner of the room.

“Responsibility” for the aesthetic properties, as in the previous type, falls mainly on the handle: metal, wood, glass, porcelain … There are even rhinestones.

Such handles also have differences in the shape of the decorative cover. In addition to the round rosette, like in previous models, they can be equipped with oblong-shaped plates.

Moreover, this shape of the lining allows you to hide two holes in the door under it: the upper one for the latch drive handle, the lower one for the handle and the lock cylinder.

Knobs for wooden doors

The word “knob” comes from England. A narrow translation of a noun is a pen, a bump, a head. But there is also a “technical” translation – a round door handle.

The simplest knob without a latch mechanism can be considered a classic of interior doors. Similar handles made of wood or plastic were produced by the Soviet industry..

Now most of these models are equipped with a movable head and a latch. And they are of the rotary type.

Like push knobs, round knobs can have a simple latch..

But if they have a handle on the inside for fixing the latch, then on the outside they are equipped with either a larva for a key, or a screw for a flat-head screwdriver for forced unlocking of the latch.

Sliding door handles

If the sliding door moves parallel to the wall, then overhead handles are also suitable for it. This is exactly how all glass sliding doors are fitted..

But wooden models, regardless of whether they are “hiding” in a cassette in the wall or displaced along the wall, are completed with a special type of handles without a protruding handle. They are cut into the door leaf.

There are similar simple handles for cassette glass doors..

In addition, wooden sliding interior doors can have handles with a lock..

Features of handles for interior glass doors

We have already mentioned two variants of handles for glass doors. In addition to invoices and mortise, they also have knobs. For example, such:

If the glass door needs to be fixed or locked, then the latch and lock mechanism cannot be smashed into the canvas. Therefore, for these cases, overhead models of handles are produced – with a latch:

or with latch and lock.