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snowy_again
Many thanks for all the help everyone, loads of options I think @dbr has nailed it with that knob, you are right, the original were were aluminum. Im going to ask a friend in Germany if we can get them posted, but they're still suprisingly affordable from that UK supplier.
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We wanted to try and keep the doors accurate to the period of the house, having something more solid and soundproof. You couild hear a mouse fart through the old ones, I cant emphaise how shit they are.
The easiest way of getting solid flush doors I could think of was getting firedoors as they're solid core. They are 44mm instead of the orignal 36mm so we had to move and replace all the door stops, but we needed to that anyway as all of the orignals were really very wonky, only 1 would close properly.
We were all set on getting these Sapele ones:
When we realised that actually we didnt like how dark the orignal ones are (the one in the above photo is much darker that IRL, and it was probably the lightest of the bunch). In areas like the landing, where there isnt much natural light atm, were made worse by having such dark doors, as such we went for something a bit cheaper, specifically these.
That way if we want too we can paint the sides that face the landing white without feeling guilty about paitning over sapele, and if not they are much lighter anyway:
And if we just varnish they they'll look ok too (see this one I wetted out with a bit of isoprop to bring out the colour of the wood), not sure what the wood is though, nothing fancy at any rate.
Sound wise they are so so so much better, with two of us WFH in a small house its made a massive difference.