We have a 1950's era 4-level split level house in the Chicago suburbs. The top floor, with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and several closets, has a total of 3 30-inch doors, 2 28-inch doors, 10 24-inch doors and 1 18-inch door. These doors are all original 1950's hollow-core, flat slab style, with a na tural wood finish. We want to freshen things up and are considering painti ng the doors a slightly off-white color to go with the adjacent walls.
Rather than completely replacing all these doors, we are considering adding /gluing trim to these doors and then painting them. The idea would be addi ng trim to the doors in the shape of a digitized "8". This would make them resemble, slightly, a normal 2-panel door. The trim would be moulding str ips from a local home-improvement store, about 2.5 inches wide. The thing we don't know/understand, is the height/location of the middle cross-piece of the "8". Obviously it would be somewhere above the equator of the doors .
I plan on doing some measuring of doors at our local home-improvements stor es, and maybe using strips of paper scotch-taped to a couple of our doors t o envision how they would look with the new trim.
My question now is how to set the height of the middle cross-piece? I am pr etty sure that it should be at the same height across all doors, no matter what the width of the door, but how high?
Polite responses requested.