Drift?

Draft? (then, I think yes, it is true)

yes, draft : )

We started building our home in January 2011, moved in it August 2011! I chose 2 mahogany doors with glass/wrought iron. There is No draft & I absolutely love the doors I chose. I think 2 doors just look incredible. Good luck with your new home!

Well done, there should be no drafts.

The huge advantage to double door comes when you are moving the couch in. :)

Couch, fridge, anything large...

But, it does need to be done well, or yes, they can be more drafty--more areas with weatherstripping that can fail, etc.

Also not traditionally as water tight so most people prefer to only use them at an entry door point if they have a sizable overhang to limit the water infiltration possibility.

Seems to me that double doors are more for aesthetics, and seldom are they open with both leafs.

For proper security, special hardware is required, which, in turn, requires extra time and effort to release in order to open both leafs.

Good luck with your project.

I'd go with double doors. We have them and have no issues with draft. Also, I cannot tell you how many times I have needed to open them both......furniture, Christmas Tree, carpet cleaning folks, etc. We are building a beach home and husband said we had to have one set of double doors.

Thanks. My husband is insisting on double doors and they do look grand. Hopefully we won't have draft issues.

Practical issue with double doors that caused us to do a single door in our project: One leverset is a dummy. We found that with the dummy lever we had on our last house that people would not know which one was the operating door and accidentally bend the lever down even though it was "fixed". It would move a bit though and so I constantly had to be resetting the lever back to the horizontal position.

We opted for a single wide (42") front door in our current project. This should be plenty wide enough for even chunky pieces of furniture.

One important question is, How big is your house? Into what type of entryway will they open?

While Natalie's double doors are lovely, they'd look silly on my small house.

Overall, I lean towards single doors. Two doors are never opened at once, so they serve no purpose. Double doors also double your cost, and doors aren't cheap!

I think double would be more appropriate for your foyer size. Thanks for your help!