Sliding doors or door-compartments are a very convenient option, especially for small-sized apartments. In addition, they are very stylish and in themselves are an effective element of the interior decor.
Coupe doors come in several types depending on the design, in addition, you can choose the option of finishing them. Like any thing, these doors have both pluses and minuses.
The positive sides of the sliding doors:
- save space in comparison with swing analogs;
- there are no thresholds;
- easy to open and close;
- have an elegant look and are suitable for any interior.
Disadvantages of sliding doors-coupe:
- Do not provide absolute isolation of the room, including sound;
- require a large free space on the wall next to the door, where the closing flap will "ride".
Varieties of doors-compartments
First of all, the doors can differ in appearance, that is, be monolithic or glazed. It is also often possible to meet mirror door-coupe, they are good for the bathroom, however, you can install such a door in the bedroom - here we also badly need a reflective surface. But most of the time the door is covered with a mirror in the dressing room or the doors of the wardrobes, and in order to decorate it somehow, it is not uncommon for the printers to perform photo prints or to beat out drawings with a sandblaster.
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It is interesting to look completely glass doors-compartments. Interior doors with opaque or transparent glass look easy and elegant. These door-coupe can serve as a partition , when you need to thinly divide the room into zones, while not building the walls and not using a long-bored all drywall.
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There are different doors and compartments according to their design. For example, there are radius door-coupe - they can have several sliding sections. Usually these doors are equipped with wardrobes with an unusual round or even more complex shape.
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And for rooms where there is no room for a moving door, there are built-in door-compartments, in which the leaf "leaves" in the wall. It is better to entrust such doors to specialists, although with great desire and skill you can manage yourself.
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Types of sliding mechanisms in the doorway
There are two main types of retractable mechanisms:
- Doors with upper roller . Doors with an upper guide roller are almost suspended in the air. The rail on which the roller travels is at the top, which is very convenient, since in this case there is no need for a threshold and a lower rail.
- Doors with a lower roller . In this case, the interior door has a lower guide roller. The design, respectively, is a lower rail and a roller that travels through it. The door leaf from the bottom rests against the rail, and the upper guide and the roller hold the door in the opening. This design is more complicated, but more reliable. Its disadvantage is the presence of the rails at the bottom, which creates some inconvenience when installing the floor covering and the complexity of the daily operation of the door.
Types of doors-compartments by other parameters:
- the number of canvases - can be one-, two-, three- and four-leaf, so that the sliding door can cover an opening of any width;
- the number of "parking spaces " - that is, the sections of the wall that limit the door in the open state, can be one-park and two-park doors, that is, move apart in one or both directions.
In any case, sliding sliding doors solve several tasks simultaneously: they separate adjacent rooms, help to solve design problems, for example, in cases with studio projects they act as temporary partitions.
The only drawback of this design is its high cost. But if you take into account the stylishness, practicality and comfort of the solution, the price issue goes to the background.