Compared to ordinary hinge doors, sliding doors take up less space when installed. Well, its ability to save space is what makes sliding doors the right solution to make the room in the house look more spacious. In addition to making the house look spacious, various sliding door design innovations that are increasingly developing today can enhance your home too.

However, you shouldn’t just choose and placed sliding doors in the rooms. Besides having to adjust the sliding door design with the style concept of your home, the variations of sliding doors also have their respective functions. The different types of sliding doors can be seen from the raw material or from the way they are shifted when closed and opened.

Sliding Folding Door
This sliding door usually consists of many door panels. Usually, sliding folding doors are placed in a very wide opening, such as in a garage. You should not placed this type of sliding door in a small room, because the folds of the open door panels will take up more space than other types of sliding doors.

Japanese Style Sliding Doors
Surely you have often seen sliding doors used in traditional Japanese houses. As one of the characteristics that cannot be separated from Japanese house buildings, the main material for Japanese-style sliding doors is wood with symmetrical checkered panels on 2/3 parts of the door.

The checkered panels on the Japanese style sliding doors will be equipped with paper material. This is done so that the door becomes lighter and more elastic when exposed to shocks. You can modify it by changing the paper material to opaque or clear glass.

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