Can a slider be a back door?
Pamela
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where does the slider go in relation to the controls and the door
Comments (3)Your shower configuration is similar to ours except that we don't have a fixed shower head. We have the slide bar between the door and the control. Since the door swings both ways, we open it out, reach in, direct the hand-held shower head towards the back wall, and turn on the water. That way we don't have to get wet until the water has warmed up. You are not obsessing about this. It is certainly better to decide what works best for you before it's too late....See Morereplacing slider screen door with hinged door
Comments (3)Yes you can and we have done it! Our slider was made out of wood and we hated that stupid sliding door, so we bought a cheap lightweight wooden screen door put some hinges on it and it worked perfectly! We did have to get a turnbuckle for it and oh how I loved that door! Unfortunately we bought a new slider and it’s vinyl so we can’t screw the hinges into It , I have put up with another crappy sliding screen door and I’m about to have my husband put on another wooden one even though it will have to swing the wrong way....See MoreHas anyone ever done stationary doors combined with sliders?
Comments (8)I personally think you have 2 options - 1) to hang a long curtain and 2) to build out the drywall and put in double french doors. I don't think you'd want your living room to have all that glass showing, it's different when it goes to the outside, I think, which is usually where you see double sets of french doors. Making your inside doors slide to the outside doors sounds expensive and I think the drywall option is cheaper. You can definitely re-use the room as a DR with the french doors, I think....See MoreShoji-look (or barn door maybe)slider window for interior wall opening
Comments (16)Hope the photos help you envision what I'm talking about. We literally just purchased this 2nd home, townhouse (photo is from day 2 after purchase). It's a middle unit, so light is limited. In the room shown above, the wall opposite the cut out has a large slider door to a very private patio. The kitchen is completely interior and for natural light only has those 2 pass-through windows which both have nice views through another room to the outside. When we gut the kitchen, I'd like to keep the size of this pass through/cut out and enlarge the one on the other side of the kitchen. There maybe I'd also cut a door opening into the dining room on that side. But, back to my original question. When we re-do the kitchen (soon) we'd remove the bar counter where the stuff is sitting now. Then, I'd like to put my shoji screen across the opening. I'd prefer to just have a shoji-type window the size of the cut out. But, I can maybe see that a full length door might work with it acting as a frame to the sides of the pass through when the window is completely opened up. This is a fairly contemporary design as far as the architecture of the unit itself, and I plan to furnish it with a contemporary feel with Japanese and Scandinavian influences. We also intend to put in a frosted glass door (type and size TBD) where the opening to the hall (top photo) at the left of the cutout is. With these changes we hope to be able to use this room very occasionally for overflow during large family gatherings for a guest bedroom. Our primary goal for the room though is to have some sort of separation for when one person wants to have at least some semi-sound seclusion from the rest of the main floor which is very open. We though we could accomplish this by adding the door and a sliding shoji window. Maybe we're wrong. We know there will still be noise, but it is better than having everything completely open. Thanks for your ideas....See MoreFori
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