I'm looking for ideas.
I have a interior dry-walled opening in a load bearing wall, with 82" high side 'pillars' and 92" at the peak of the arched opening. Want to enclose with French doors - and can get a pair of pre-hung French doors for reasonably cost (for a rectangular opening). The question is how to deal with the arched top? Prefer a window... and the question is how you might do that:
- One flat-bottomed arched-top window that tapers to zero
- a sunburst type pattern
- other ideas?
Are there commercial window people that do such things?
A few other notes:
- a pre-hung, arched top custom set of doors came in at $6k for paint grade, (with casings)! Not going to happen
- the archway is actually a double wall that is 11 1/8" thick. Uncertain exactly how to make the door look right in that opening; 1. Would you center the door? 2. Would you extend jams all the wall across the 11+" or trim it somehow in the opening?
- the framing on the 'double wall' seems to be separate 2x4 walls - because the middle of this 11+" wall is hollow sounding. This of course has bearing on where the door is set ( how far back in to the opening.
- looking at the attic, there is a roof support pillar that lines up directly above the middle of the arch (one floor below) - so I have no doubt there is a subtantial header above this arch (i.e. can't remove drywall and re-frame.
Thanks
I have a interior dry-walled opening in a load bearing wall, with 82" high side 'pillars' and 92" at the peak of the arched opening. Want to enclose with French doors - and can get a pair of pre-hung French doors for reasonably cost (for a rectangular opening). The question is how to deal with the arched top? Prefer a window... and the question is how you might do that:
- One flat-bottomed arched-top window that tapers to zero
- a sunburst type pattern
- other ideas?
Are there commercial window people that do such things?
A few other notes:
- a pre-hung, arched top custom set of doors came in at $6k for paint grade, (with casings)! Not going to happen
- the archway is actually a double wall that is 11 1/8" thick. Uncertain exactly how to make the door look right in that opening; 1. Would you center the door? 2. Would you extend jams all the wall across the 11+" or trim it somehow in the opening?
- the framing on the 'double wall' seems to be separate 2x4 walls - because the middle of this 11+" wall is hollow sounding. This of course has bearing on where the door is set ( how far back in to the opening.
- looking at the attic, there is a roof support pillar that lines up directly above the middle of the arch (one floor below) - so I have no doubt there is a subtantial header above this arch (i.e. can't remove drywall and re-frame.
Thanks