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Bespoke French door room dividers

Any recommendations for reasonable suppliers? I've had a quote for silly money and am wondering whether going oversize via the internet might be the answer. The look I'm after is this:

Creative Dividers - a Unique Add-on to any Space - Boyer Building  Corporation

Where do I start?
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  • greenface2
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    What is the width of the opening & half that and make sure you have that either side . Is there already a hole there . Its just 2 average 15 lite doors on a bracketed roller . materials £400 max and that's top price for a decent door and rollers . if you shopped around and went budget £60 each door and around 80 for the bearing rollers  
  • Rosa_Damascena
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    What is the width of the opening & half that and make sure you have that either side . Is there already a hole there . Its just 2 average 15 lite doors on a bracketed roller . materials £400 max and that's top price for a decent door and rollers . if you shopped around and went budget £60 each door and around 80 for the bearing rollers  
    I wish it were that simple! The height is 2130mm, widths 2540mm and 1850mm and I'm looking at glazed units.
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  • Doozergirl
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    You want your openings to fit the doors, not the other way around.  When there is a choice to make something bespoke, make it the building work, not the product.  

    I'm always a little dubious over whether these half-hearted doors are really needed.  The benefit of wanting doors of this style is that it won't cost you a penny more to wait and have them installed as and when.   

    We're doing the same with a door opening and I'm not sure yet.  It's been 6 months.  Perhaps if we have some spare cash in the future we might add them, but the lack of them is not detracting from my life.  
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  • You want your openings to fit the doors, not the other way around.  When there is a choice to make something bespoke, make it the building work, not the product.  

    I'm always a little dubious over whether these half-hearted doors are really needed.  The benefit of wanting doors of this style is that it won't cost you a penny more to wait and have them installed as and when.   

    We're doing the same with a door opening and I'm not sure yet.  It's been 6 months.  Perhaps if we have some spare cash in the future we might add them, but the lack of them is not detracting from my life.  
    You are right of course.

    These are existing walls that I don't want to build up as I need to maximise light entry. But I do want to shut the two rooms away for privacy; this was always the plan.
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  • Rosa_Damascena
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    edited 22 April 2021 at 8:39PM
    So this is the diagram if it helps, DG:




    The walls are actually the original thick external property walls.
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  • Doozergirl
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    edited 23 April 2021 at 5:42AM
    To save money, I'd suggest that the openings are adjusted to the widest that would be allowed by separate doors.  If the opening is existing, it would be much cheaper to add a little bit of studwork to it before plastering up than it would to make bespoke doors.   

    The right hand side is big and it's not going to be cheap to build sturdy sidelights in timber.  The opening is massive so you're not going to get away with anything cheap to fill that in a traditional manner.    Sliders would work well if all four panels were the same size.  


    What about metal doors? 

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    Using black as it's popular, but both the above would look equally lovely in white.  

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  • Any recommendations aside from Ministry of the Interior UK? I'd really like something that looks like this x3 (I'd like this effect on the LHS - west-facing - new wall rather than just the French doors.

    Inline image
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  • Rosa_Damascena
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    Bumping for further ideas?

    Although the way money is being spent atm I think I may have to wait for these to be installed.
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  • In the end I went for wide (863mm) doors. 3 will form a tri-fold for the wide opening, and the others will be conventionally opening French doors. The smaller opening doorway needed a small build-in but it won't be long until they're installed.
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