You Also Need These 10 Ingenious Sliding Doors For The Kitchen!
The design of kitchens has changed significantly in recent years. And so kitchens are increasingly becoming places where not only cooking takes place but also a lively meeting place in the house where family members and friends come together. Contemporary kitchens are often seamlessly connected to the dining area and living room of a house. This is beautiful, but can sometimes be annoying. Because noises and smells from cooking sometimes restrict relaxation in the living room.
So what can you do? Sliding doors are a way to discreetly separate open living spaces from one another. They are much more of a design object than our conventional doors and are available in many materials, designs and colours. Another advantage: Due to their special construction on the ceiling, they take up hardly any space in the house as a sliding element and are sometimes even hidden in prefabricated walls.
Together we will look at 10 examples of fantastic sliding doors from kitchen planners for your kitchen.
- Cool kitchens with sliding doors
- Sliding glass door
- Wooden sliding door
- Classically inspired!
- Young designs
- Solutions for large kitchen-living rooms
- Sliding doors in colour
- Door system made of wooden frame and glass
- Hatched glass
- Simple sliding door in country house style
- Feather-light system also for high ceilings
Cool kitchens with sliding doors
Sliding doors often give kitchens a very special charm and character. If the sliding door is made of transparent glass, the kitchen and adjoining rooms usually look like a dining or living room—and are also much more spacious and airy. Which sliding door for the kitchen and dining room? It all depends on your taste, the interior design style and your budget! Make the kitchen look bigger with a glass sliding door. Definitely! The room is not limited by a conventional door. Whether you choose a wooden sliding door, a glass sliding door or a normal door for your kitchen depends of course on your habits. Sliding doors are practical, but also a matter of habit.
If you're looking for even more inspiration for your kitchen, check out this article about great kitchen floors.
1. Sliding glass door
One of the key factors in the success of sliding doors is the variety of materials that are used. Glass elements in particular ensure that they subtly separate rooms such as the kitchen and living room, without completely separating the rooms from each other. The transparency of the glass retains the radiance of both rooms and ensures that the uniform appearance of the large living space is maintained. Daylight is also not affected by such a system.
2. Wooden sliding door
A completely different, even contradictory look is created with wood. It completely separates the rooms from each other—including the line of sight. This must be intentional, but it looks beautiful. Let's look at the example: The sliding system is implemented in a very minimalist way and looks like a panelled wall.
Wood is one of the most versatile materials you will find on the market—and it is precisely this adaptability and the cosiness that comes with it that makes it a perfect material to adapt to any design. Here it combines the traditional charm of wood with the contemporary look of minimalism.
3. Classically inspired!
Who said that sliding doors are only possible in modern versions? This example proves how diverse such systems can be. The wooden frame is elegant and classic. Artificial glass decorates the inside of the doors, which can be slid into the wall to the left and right—an admittedly more complex construction.
4. Young designs
Let's go back to a very youthful design of a sliding door. Here too, the sliding doors that form the boundary between the small kitchen and the living room are made of glass—but in this case, opaque frosted glass. This maintains a certain lightness, although privacy is also taken into account.
5. Solutions for large kitchen-living rooms
Let's take a look at this big design. We have learned that sliding doors make sense, especially in small kitchens, as they offer little space for opening normal door leaves. However, this fact does not mean that sliding doors cannot be installed in large kitchens. Made of glass, this system allows for complete transparency in the kitchen—and can also exclude possible noises if desired.
6. Sliding doors in colour
If you want to design your kitchen with a unique design, colour comes into play. In this image, the architects have added a pop of colour to the two-door leaves, giving them a modern and unique look. Now we can think that this is a perfect door for a cheerful kitchen.
Tip: When choosing colours, always make sure that the colour is either reflected in other furniture or that you don't use too much colour. The motto here is: less is more!
7. Door system made of wooden frame and glass
In this example, the kitchen and dining room are also separated by a sliding door, creating two separate living areas. The sliding door consists of a light wooden frame, which has been supplemented with small panes of glass.
8. Hatched glass
The matte texture in this kitchen is unusual. High ceilings ensure that the door system can be presented in all its elegance made of black steel and glass. Such a system is suitable for both classic interiors and urban, industrial living spaces.
9. Simple sliding door in country house style
The charm of the country house style characterizes this proposal and fits perfectly with the cosy interior design of the kitchen and dining room. The sliding doors are dipped in white and have the design of classic double doors—only that they slide open. Such a system is very similar to a normal door leaf.
10. Feather-light system also for high ceilings
These beautiful, delicate sliding doors are available as a finished module and as a room divider in three different profiles. The system is also suitable for higher ceilings. They can support a load at a height of up to three metres.
