Are double doors more convenient?

Nice, yes, practical, sort of. You can’t and won’t use them every day, maybe only once a year?? The rest of the time they will cost you money in your home’s overall thermal efficiency.

If you’re going to move a lot of wide objects in, but other than that….Maybe if you think turning a knob with your wrist is difficult, I guess get them lol.

With double doors, one is used primarily for entrance. The second can be opened to allow wide items, such as furniture, to be brought inside that otherwise might need to be taken apart.

Security is sometimes an issue. It’s going to be easier to break into or break down double doors than it would be if it was a single door.

They are great when you move. Are you planning to move? Otherwise, only one is used, the other is kept latched. I love the look of double doors, most of my houses have had them and I don’t regret it at all.

The only thing I warn is if you will have to get smaller doors to fit in the space you have, be sure you are ok with that size single door to walk through. For instance if your current door is 36” with side lights/windows, possibly going to double doors you will only be able to fit two 32” doors and you will only be walking through the one door. I hope that makes sense.

I just read other answers. You can get open out doors, they are very difficult to break into, you can’t just bust them in. Or, hurricane code open in doors, I think they are difficult to bust in also. All the years I’ve lived in FL I’ve never heard of someone’s house being broken into through their front double doors, but I guess maybe it does happen.

Also, open out doors protect well against air escaping or elements getting in. They hang slightly over on the outside. But, it is unusual to have open out doors in states north of FL, and some people find it unfriendly to open a door towards guests.

Here is some info about inswing vs outswing.

Edit: Worth mentioning that if you have a screen door in front of your door an outswing is impractical, but it doesn’t sound to me like you do if part of the reason you want the door is the beauty of it.

I worry that they’re less secure and easier to kick in.

They are convenient for those that move large objects or large numbers of people. For the most part though, they are merely a sign of opulence. After all, large houses need large doors, right?

@2davidc8 A valid concern, but a well-built double-door has bolts at the top and bottom of at least one door that make double doors as solid as a single door. However, those of lower quality are, well, not as high quality and thus are less secure.

@jerv In Southeast Florida even houses that aren’t that big have double doors. It was the trend with some builders back around 25 years ago up through the present. My first house had double doors and it was 2,000 sq ft.

@JLeslie That is pretty big. I’ve lived in two-story houses with less floor space than that. Granted, a lot of American houses built in the last 15 years are that size or larger, but that’s still about 2½ times the size of the average US home built in the 1950s. Put another way, the average 2 bedroom apartment is a little less than half that size (~980 sq. ft.). I’ve seen duplexes smaller than that; you must’ve had at least 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths in that thing unless you had a living room that doubled as a basketball court.

I guess it’s a matter of perspective though. I do not consider the GMC Yukon to be a Compact car, though some might.

@jerv I don’t know why you are talking about apartments?

I don’t know about the 50’s, but I happen to know in the 70’s the average house size was around 1600 sq ft. Maybe as people moved away from city centers more and more the sq ft went up. Now the average is over 2,000. 2,000 isn’t any sort of mansion for a house. Sure, my sister who lives in an 800 sq ft apartment would feel like 2000 sq ft is a tremendous amount of space, but the average family in the burbs wouldn’t.

None of that matters. What matters is the house size if the OP and whether the doors will look in proportion. He has the space to put in double doors, so I assume they will be in proportion. A 1200 sq ft house wouldn’t likely have the space for the double doors.

I always have thought they were just for show rather than usefulness.

@Jleslie As one who has spent much of their life either in urban areas or in old houses (pre-1900), that is rather large compared to what I’m used to. But yes, “new construction houses have grown considerably just in the last decade.

I’ll just say again, all that matters is if they are in proportion for the OP’s home.