Sliding doors continue to stay at the forefront of door fashion trends. New styles and functions promise to keep them a top choice for architects and contractors for the foreseeable future.
As population density grows, living spaces are necessarily shrinking, which opens the market wider. Accessibility issues – and practicality – require that a standard swinging door has at least 32″ of clear width and a few feet surrounding the space for the door to swing into and out of the way. Sliding doors only require the wall space for the hardware to be installed or simply space left within a wall for a pocket door.
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