Louvered Closet Doors

Louvered Closet Doors. Louvered closet doors are a style of closet door that have slat at the front of it. These slats are usually made of wood and angled - for both practical and decorative reasons.

They are useful for all sorts of reasons - not least acting as a door for the closet. Whilst in many aspects of interior design you have to weigh up what looks good against what works well from a practical perspective with the louvered closet doors you don't have that worry...

...they look good and are useful. What more could you want?

The 'louvered' part of the louvered closet doors refers specifically to the slatting style that is on the front of the door. This is not a style that is limited to doors - many vents, shutters and other covers use a similar set up.

The reason it is used across so many different aspects is because there are some very real benefits to using the louvered style aside from it simply looking good.

These benefits include

• Ventilation. With 'traditional' style closet doors air isn't able to circulate. This can mean any sort of dampness will fester and mould - damaging the clothes. even without moisture the clothes can become musky and unpleasant.
  
  Louvered closet doors , by contrast, allow the air to circulate inside the closet so that moisture is unable to linger and clothes can 'breathe' (in a non oxygen consuming way obviously)
  
  
• Moveable. These slats are often easily movable so you can determine what level of ventilation is maintained for your closet. This allows you to target specific needs to whatever you are keeping inside your closet - from clothes to cakes and much more besides!
  
  It also is important for allowing levels of light in - so it could be that certain things you are storing are light sensitive - in which case shutting the louvered slats allows you to block off the light.
  

Of course it is not just a case of louvered closet doors being great to us e(though of course they are) they are also a very stylish look on a door as well.

They give an air of 'lightness' to a room, breaking up what would otherwise be severe looking stretch of wood with more details - details that can be highlights however you like.

They can also come in all sorts of materials - with wood, bi-fold louvered doors being the most common type of style that you will see. The type of material obviously has a big part to play as to the style of the door.

different woods have different characters - so you can pick and choose the style that best suits your home and décor.

If you are worried about getting a draught from any vents on your closet then you could try draught excluders for doors

There are all sorts of DiY options when it comes to fitting louvered closet doors in your own home.  You can make it yourself, fit the slats yourself or simply buy it ready made and look to 'hang' it yourself.

Of course you could also look to bring in an expert - someone who is able do deal with bifold louvered closet doors on a near enough daily basis, so can get the job done quickly and easily if you are willing to pay for them to come in and do it for you.