Cafe doors are a unique alternative to standard internal door installations. Also known as swing doors can be used to cover any opening previously used with full length interior doors. Many styles are now available and stretch beyond standard louvered café doors. These doors add privacy and simplify access while allowing natural light and sound to penetrate into adjacent spaces. You can find unique door designs that are custom sized to meet your opening requirements ensuring a perfect fit to your existing opening; no cutting, shimming or demo work of the existing opening required.

They provide a distinctive look when dividing or concealing items from view in shared spaces. You can mount the doors at any height. You will find café doors in homes, restaurants, businesses, hospitals and more, common uses are to separate bathrooms, walk-in closets, laundry rooms and kitchens from adjacent rooms, they can also offer greater functionality by restricting pets to certain spaces/rooms. Depending on the look of your space, that will determine the style and finish of swinging doors you wish to purchase. There are western style doors which seem to be very popular in mid-west America, full length cafe doors in which the swinging doors go from floor to top of door way, these doors are the style of door you might use for a closet or bathroom or just to completely divide one room from another, and for the traditional look you can find classic style two panel cafe doors with spindles. Louvered doors are popular for that space that needs to be divided but also can be transparent. Although mostly sold as unfinished, you can find just about any style, shape or finish to fit your decor or needs.

With many different styles of swing doors come many styles of hinges required to hang the doors in place, these different types of hinges are sold to the customer based on their needs and likes. Some of the styles include: double acting premium gravity hinges, heavy duty gravity hinges, which are normally used for heavy, large cafe doors, and the double acting spring hinge, which happens to be the most popular in commercial applications. Along with different types of hinges there are also different finishes, such as polished brass, brushed nickel finish, and oil rubbed bronze all of which goes well with Saloon, Bar, Pub, Western style, craftsman, contemporary, colonial, rustic and classic style cafe doors.