The 2 center doors will slide over the outside stationary doors similar to the photo below.

What options do I have for mullions, etc for the doors. We have a 1950 Cape and are doing a fancy cottage kitchen.

My issue is that I know those mullions in the standard 15 lite colonial doors can be a real PAIN to clean in between all those rectangles. Especially since there will be 4 doors and 2 sides!

Any other suggestions of a glass I can do or mullion design that won't be so hard to clean? Maybe even a decorative glass without mullions?? I want a simple look though that will go with our home. PLAIN glass may even be fine but afraid they may get walked into!

We have grilles between the glass on our exterior windows which is fine but not a look for our LR and DR. (plastic between the glass)

I saved a photo from Thyne's kitchen. What is this door? Doesn't look like wood mullions (obviously)... but what are they?

Our layout although this isn't 100% accurate-- enough to get the idea...

*********Here's a link to Andersen... but nothing that jumps out...

There's a world of difference between interior and exterior glass cleaning. I have three sets of interior French doors and they are really not that hard to keep looking good. I am a firm believer in doing a little bit frequently, so I Swiffer the horizontal muntins as often as I can. The actual glass only gets polished once a month. It never seems all that dirty because it's a vertical surface and not a mirror.

Exterior divided light windows and doors are a whole nother ballgame.

There are windows in both rooms behind the doors so with kids fingerprints I'm thinking it may get nuts. lol

Michelle

Are these special order options? Where can I get these? I assume Andersen just has the standard types.

kateskouros- I like the prairie a lot but don't think it would go here?

(Many thought we should just leave the open concept without the doors but we REALLY think the doors will be functional for us to separate the rooms a bit when needed. At one point we were having pocket doors but then we would have less of a view as we would have had to had 3' wall pockets on either side.)

Anyway, I'm leaning towards all glass (no mullions) or maybe the 2 fixed sides could be clear and the center doors have mullions. Usually sidelights are smaller than the center doors but in this case they are all the same. Would it look okay to have the two center be different? The doors will mostly be in the opened position I would think.

Just some various pics...

muntin is the wood separating panes of glass in a window

mullion is the wood separating windows

A better option is to buy interior French doors and the correct bypass sliding door hardware, which will likely consist of a track that goes inside the wall above the door and either a track or a couple of bumpers on the floor to keep the door from swinging out. Your contractor will likely have sources he likes, or if you are doing it yourself there are lots of kits available online and probably at your local stores too though the selection will probably be more limited. Make sure you get one with at least 3 wheels oneach of the pieces that attach to the door itself, and a track that only allows the door to be disengaged at specific locations.

For the doors themselves, ake a look at the Trustile website:
Glass Doors
Glass Types
Mullion Profiles

There are other companies that make interior French doors of course, but this one has a lot of options and should at least give you an idea of the range of options available.

Have you considered some of those gorgeous curved, or cathedral, windows that are available in cabinetry?

I have a bunch of French doors I'm using for my pocket doors now. Actually, 4. I haven't gotten to the cleaning stage, either, but being internal, I'm not so worried about it. I will have kittie noses on the bottom glass, but all my windows end up with those. Special order, I say!

dilly- I agree. I don't want to bring in another look so I'm thinking either clear or the colonial style muntins (if that's the right word).

Or, I could do the colonial in a beveled glass or leaded glass but I don't know...

dilly- I agree. I don't want to bring in another look so I'm thinking either clear or the colonial style muntins (if that's the right word).

Or, I could do the colonial in a beveled glass or leaded glass but I don't know...

OR, I do really like either the doors with beveled glass like mpg2004 showed

OR, even though Marcolo (whose opinion I respect a lot) says that the leaded glass is off-era, I really love it and wonder if I were to use a silver caming instead of black if that would modernize it a bit? On the Simpson Door site it describes black caming as rustic, old world and the Silver Caming as updated.
Our door hardware will also be brushed silver tone.

BLACK:

SILVER: (but done in a 10 lite or similar door)

I think this is silver?

I like this too but think with a wider (34") door the look may change...

Our original windows had the muntin also. When we replaced them the grills are in between. We have a bay window in our eating space and I had just clear glass put in. Love it and wish we had done that with the whole back of the house. One of our neighbors did that. We did not have grids put in our slider either. I wish my interior french door didn't have glass.

Otherwise I'm thinking 10 lite with V Bevel, or possibly silver leaded....

If I did wood muntins maybe just the center doors could have them and the two side could be plain glass. We want to keep an open feel. The doors will mostly be open.

If it isn't too late and you need any additional info or pics, just let me know!