ᐅ Sliding doors inside the house?

Harri123 schrieb:
I can only recommend it, you save a lot of space

Realistically, only if @WildThing chooses an inward-running system.

Bauexperte

I’m a bit conflicted... we have a lift-and-slide door, and out of all the door and window units, it feels like the most fragile. It has the worst U-value, has squeaked before, and it always gives me headaches when the kids mess around with it.

On the other hand, it’s obviously nice that it doesn’t get in the way – but in my opinion, that’s often just a crutch for poor planning.

The romantic idea of an always-open gateway to the outside world – especially in summer – hasn’t really come true, since it’s almost always much warmer outside than inside; only during transitional seasons can you leave it open for a while.

Bauexperte schrieb:
Realistically, only if @WildThing opts for an inward sliding system

Why? Even a wall-mounted system requires much less free floor space than a regular door, doesn’t it? Of course, a good portion of that space is used as a passageway anyway, but it is still an area that cannot be used for other purposes.

Viewed this way, a sliding door running along the wall takes up less space. A regular door usually opens into the room area, while a sliding door reduces available wall space.

If the sliding door slides into the wall, the structural requirements for the walls and ceiling increase, since the wall opening doubles in width.

A space-saving option would be a door that opens into the door frame, but the additional cost is hardly worth it.

Hello,
we have a sliding door in the kitchen leading to the pantry. The entrance is located between our island and the kitchen counter, so a regular door would have been inconvenient. I really like it...
I would have liked to have more of them, but that would have been very complicated due to the drywall.
Now we have a standard door to the pantry in the kitchen, and it just gets in the way—never again...

Ah... interior sliding doors. We have a double door of this type that slides on the outside. It is always left open – we might as well have just left an opening.

It doesn’t take up much space, since the cupboards are placed along the other wall (the perpendicular one) and set back about 10cm (4 inches) from the sliding door wall.

I would recommend everyone to design living spaces so that doors – whether sliding or traditional – don’t get in the way when open (ideally even opening 180°); this way, the issue of sliding doors taking up usable space becomes less significant.