Open Up Your Home With Space Saving Doors
October 28th, 2007 | by door |
peter jacobs asked:
Modern life seems to require more and more free space, unfortunately, the boundaries and walls of our homes are usually fixed, and we cannot change the physical dimensions of our living space very easily. Do how can we use strategically placed, space saving doors to gain a little extra space in our homes? A door needs room to open, this is dead space that we cannot use for spacing furniture or any form of static decoration, so why not switch to some form of specialist space saving door? There are primarily three types of space saving doors.
· Sliding Doors – These are great doors for freeing up the dead space occupied by a hinged door, they entire door will be set into a set of tracks, one at the top and one at the bottom, with easily moved rollers. Grabbing the door and sliding it sideways allows passage, great doors as long as you have room along the dividing wall to lay the rollers.
· Folding Doors – This type of door is designed to be used where sliding doors will not fit. A sliding door needs wall space as wide as the door itself to lay the tracks, a folding door needs no such space, simply folding in on itself like a concertina within the door frame. The only downside with this type of door is the fact that the fold will often spring open again once you have passed through, making it a very hard door to leave open, as folding doors will tend to shut themselves.
· Folding Sliding Doors – This is a high tech, fully featured hybrid door which is designed to be a synergy of the sliding door and the folding door. A folding sliding door requires less wall space to fit, as the runners will often only be half the width of the door, the other half of the door is designed to fold. Unlike folding doors, folding sliding doors tend to stay folded, as only a fraction of the door needs to fold, as most of it will have slid into the runners.
So here we can see that there are three potential contenders for the types of door which can free up the dad space required to open a hinged door. Any of these three types of doors, folding doors, sliding doors and folding sliding doors are capable of returning this dead space to the room, allowing you to position furniture in the area that was previously reserved as the opening space of your hinged door.
A little imagination can find some great applications for space saving doors, especially in more modern buildings with well proportioned wall spaces. These doors come in a variety of materials and finishes to suit every pocket, from simple coated plastic to luxury hard woods, don’t delay, fit your space saving doors today, take the space back from those hinged doors and use it for something more useful instead.
BENEDICT
Modern life seems to require more and more free space, unfortunately, the boundaries and walls of our homes are usually fixed, and we cannot change the physical dimensions of our living space very easily. Do how can we use strategically placed, space saving doors to gain a little extra space in our homes? A door needs room to open, this is dead space that we cannot use for spacing furniture or any form of static decoration, so why not switch to some form of specialist space saving door? There are primarily three types of space saving doors.
· Sliding Doors – These are great doors for freeing up the dead space occupied by a hinged door, they entire door will be set into a set of tracks, one at the top and one at the bottom, with easily moved rollers. Grabbing the door and sliding it sideways allows passage, great doors as long as you have room along the dividing wall to lay the rollers.
· Folding Doors – This type of door is designed to be used where sliding doors will not fit. A sliding door needs wall space as wide as the door itself to lay the tracks, a folding door needs no such space, simply folding in on itself like a concertina within the door frame. The only downside with this type of door is the fact that the fold will often spring open again once you have passed through, making it a very hard door to leave open, as folding doors will tend to shut themselves.
· Folding Sliding Doors – This is a high tech, fully featured hybrid door which is designed to be a synergy of the sliding door and the folding door. A folding sliding door requires less wall space to fit, as the runners will often only be half the width of the door, the other half of the door is designed to fold. Unlike folding doors, folding sliding doors tend to stay folded, as only a fraction of the door needs to fold, as most of it will have slid into the runners.
So here we can see that there are three potential contenders for the types of door which can free up the dad space required to open a hinged door. Any of these three types of doors, folding doors, sliding doors and folding sliding doors are capable of returning this dead space to the room, allowing you to position furniture in the area that was previously reserved as the opening space of your hinged door.
A little imagination can find some great applications for space saving doors, especially in more modern buildings with well proportioned wall spaces. These doors come in a variety of materials and finishes to suit every pocket, from simple coated plastic to luxury hard woods, don’t delay, fit your space saving doors today, take the space back from those hinged doors and use it for something more useful instead.
BENEDICT
