Replacing interior doors

[Anonymous]

I have only seen 6 panel doors lately at Home Depot and lowes. Do they not make 4 panel interior doors anymore? Or are they custom order? I like the look of 4 panel doors but maybe it's so small of a detail, others wouldn't notice. Should I go with 4 panel or 6 panel for all interior doors in my house?

[Anonymous]

We started replacing our doors (some one-panel, some six-panel) with the shaker-style five-panel doors. Had to order them from a woodworking company (home depot and Lowes don't carry them). They're totally beautiful but I regret having spent so much money on fancy doors and glass knobs when the money would have gone farther doing other renovations. The doors were expensive - 200-250 per door, not including installation, compared to $50 or so for the regular six-panel doors we could have gotten at Home Depot. We still have three six-panel doors to replace; I recently put Home Depot oil rubbed bronze (black) knobs on them and touched up the paint. They look fantastic. I wish I'd just gone with the six-panel doors and Home Depot knobs throughout the house.

Long story short, if you have unlimited funds and no other big projects to do, go for it! If not...six panel doors and fresh hardware go a long way and look just fine.

Fwiw we got the five-panel doors through Smoots in Alexandria. Glass knobs through antiquehardware.com (or something like that).