We have a house in the family we are considering that has the same weird front door on the side arrangement and garage door in front (city lot, no other place for a garage) and our plan if we redo the house is a garage door that blends with the house and then spruce up the front and the walkway to the front as much as possible. (We are wondering even about putting some kind of porch over the front door so that there is some front-facing structure that can say ‘hello, front door here!’ but we haven’t quite decided what form that would take yet.) Otherwise people see the garage door and get confused about a lack of front door.

I would do a nice wood garage door. It will make a statement. You can also dress it up with a wood front door. Good luck!

The issue is the overall width here. It’s too wide to work well with that type of hardware. I highly recommend either the Hafele coplanar sliding door hardware, where you open half at a time, or their lift and stay hardware, and split the opening horizontally. I don’t recommend bifold doors at all . They are always in the way. Pocket doors are good, but they mostly stay open in most people’s kitchens. Which is opposite of Lucky’s experience with them! https://www.hafele.com/us/en/product/coplanar-sliding-door-hardware-slider-m-50-set/0000001100026dc600070023/ https://www.hafele.com/us/en/product/lid-stay-flap-stay-haefele-duo-standard-complete-set/000000010001c65c00010023/ https://www.hafele.com/us/en/product/lift-up-fitting-haefele-strato/0000005f000294fa00060023/

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