What is a Double French Door?

A French door is a door set with many small window panes. The most common manifestation, a double French door, is made up of two French doors set on different sides of the same door jamb, so that they open away from one another. In a true double French door, each of the little windows, or lites, is a separate piece of glass. These are divided by wooden bars called mullions, which hold the glass in place. However, many cheap modern imitations save labor and cut costs by making each door’s many windows out of one single, large piece of glass, with a plastic or wooden latticework that is fastened to the glass to make it look like a real double French door. A double French door can be made up of either doors that swing on pin hinges, like most doors, or they can be what is known as pocket doors: doors that slide into narrow spaces, or pockets, in the wall, making them all but disappear when they are open. A pocket style double French door is traditionally used as an interior door, while do ... more