Rails are lengths of wood that run horizontally across a door.
Panel door meaning.
Each of these panels will fit together in order to create the finished door.
The cross the bible the top.
The bottom part represents an open bible.
Definition of panel door.
A comparatively thin flat piece of wood or the like as a large piece of plywood.
See the image above the left door.
Frame and panel construction also called rail and stile is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors wainscoting and other decorative features for cabinets furniture and homes.
A stile is a length of wood positioned vertically on a door.
There is another form if this where it shows it is on the bottom.
And with perhaps a lot more imagination you can visualize the 2 smaller panels at the bottom as the pages of an open bible.
Alternatively a flush door has a flat smooth surface without the elaborate design work of a panel door.
A style of door construction that features vertical wood stiles and horizontal rails that form one or more frames around thinner recessed inner panels.
In a panel door the construction consists of vertical lengths of wood called stiles and horizontal lengths of wood called rails.
A panel door constructed with panels usually shaped to a pattern installed between the stiles and rails that form the outside frame of the door.
A door having panels framed by stiles and rails of greater thickness compare flush door.
Doors usually have between one and eight.
If you look at a photo of a 6 panel door you can easily see how the framing of the top 4 panels resembles a cross.
The basic idea is to capture a floating panel within a sturdy frame as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood cabinet door or drawer front the door is constructed of several solid wood pieces running in a vertical or horizontal direction with exposed endgrains.
The design of a panel door features stiles and rails.
Noun a distinct portion section or division of a wall wainscot ceiling door shutter fence etc especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
The 6 panel door.
See the right door in the image above.
If you look at it it does look like a cross.
In the most basic sense the difference between a panel door and a flush door has to do with how each is constructed.
The top part represent a cross.
Panel doors are and have been very popular for quite some time.
Their name essentially tells you what they are the door is crafted not of one single piece of wood or other material but instead is comprised of panels.