Mendes

Mendes builds internal doors around glass. The brand is best known for wide, full-height glazed leaves and slim-framed designs that let a hallway or a broken-plan kitchen keep its daylight while still closing off the noise, and the frames are engineered to hold large panes without twisting.

Where a Mendes door works

Specify Mendes where the opening is the main source of borrowed light: a back hallway, a study off a living room, or a kitchen-diner divider. See the glazing options in clear glazed doors, frosted glazed doors and reeded glazed doors.

Certified Mendes leaves appear in glazed fire doors and internal glazed fire doors. Comparable brands are LPD and Deanta, and the full category is glazed doors.

Mendes internal doors

Mendes is a straightforward internal door range: engineered leaves in the finishes and panel styles that suit most UK houses, without the price of a specifier range. It is a good place to start if you are replacing every door in a house and want one consistent look rather than mixing ranges room by room.

Choosing the style

Decide the finish first, then the panel layout. Finishes sit in internal white primed doors, internal oak doors, internal grey doors and internal black doors. Panel layouts are grouped as 2 panel, 4 panel and 6 panel, with flatter contemporary shapes in shaker doors and period styles in cottage doors. If a doorway needs light, compare glazed doors against the solid options in unglazed doors.

Finish, fitting and frames

Prefinished leaves are sealed in the factory and can be hung and left: see fully finished internal doors. Unfinished leaves have to be sealed on all six faces before use, or they will move with the room. The doors hang in internal frames and are trimmed with architraves and skirting; the difference between a frame and a lining is explained in door frames vs door linings.

Are Mendes doors solid?

The leaves we stock are engineered with a solid core rather than hollow. Hollow core vs solid core internal doors compares the two.

What hardware suits them?

Any standard internal handle and latch. Start from door handles, or take the doorway as one line with a handlepack.