Transom Windows Over Double Studyt Doors

With two styles available to choose from you can add design interest with a rectangular transom or elliptical transom.

Transom windows over double studyt doors.

Discover how a transom can complement your front entry door design. Transom windows over most of the doors in our 1880s row house are important to its authenticity. Transoms historically were used to allow passage of air and light between rooms even when doors were shut. They allow natural light to stream into your entryway.

Inside the wood frame muntins separate glass into decorative panes called lites. Create a custom brochure for this door collection. Transom windows also called transom lights sit above an entry patio or interior door or other windows. Prev 1 2 next showing 1 to 20 of 40 matches.

Transoms direct does not build doors. By adding a jamb to a transom you can adapt the thinner transom sash to a thicker wall. Typically non operating and used to add style and increase natural light transoms span the width of the opening they top and can be placed above single or double doors and sidelites. Adding a transom above the double doors visually joins the doors together and makes the whole door unit look larger which can be important for a front entrance where you want the door unit to dominate the foyer.

A transom over a double door better visually connects the two rooms and shares light between the two. They make perfect sense in row houses which typically have long narrow floor plans with windows only at the front and back. So for a 2 8 door so would order a 2 8 transom. Measure plan.

Historically operable transom windows above doors played a role in the heating and cooling in a home. For single doors simply order a transom sash that is the same width as the door slab that will go underneath. Transoms direct sells transom window sashes that is wood frames around glass. Search by door name number or enter multiple numbers separated by commas.

We do not make doors but you can choose most any door that you can find and we will build an exterior transom to fit above it. The pattern or design of the muntins for the transom usually does not align with the muntin bars or stiles of the doors below. A transom pattern is the unique combination of the transom s perimeter shape with the design of its interior lites. Transoms are stationary sections of glass placed above an entry door and its sidelights.

An open transom window in the winter helped heat from the central fireplace reach bedrooms at night.