Dutch Door Plans

Dutch Door Plans

During the early 1600s in the Netherlands, Dutch doors featured a design new to the world--top and bottom door halves that opened and closed independently from one another. First used as an exterior door, the bottom half of the door kept dried leaves and dust from blowing in while the top half remained open, letting in the fresh air.

But they knew it wasn't practical to have a door with two halves that always worked independently, and a locking mechanism was added to secure the two halves so it could work as a standard door. Other names of Dutch doors include:

* Stable doors
* Half doors
* Divided doors

Dutch Door Plans