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Barn Sliding Doors: Would they Slide Your Way?
There are many advantages to installing a sliding door to your home. Sliding barn doors are a very easy do-it-yourself design upgrade that can significantly upgrade the aesthetic appeal of your home.
They are a huge trend in the interior design world. They slide easily to the side and hang neatly against the wall. Lots of people love barn sliding doors as they add a lot of character and transform any space that they are in.
A barn sliding door is a very good way to add character, elegance, and functionality to any home. They are easy to install and can be customized in a few different ways. They also free up a ton of space that otherwise could be occupied by conventional doors.
Here are a few reasons why a barn sliding door might be the right fit for your home:
1. Space Savers
When compared to a swinging door, a barn door takes a lot less space and essentially requires no clearance into the room. Where a typical swinging door requires room to open, and can block walkways, a sliding door can save you a lot of room. Barn doors do require more wall space when compared to sliding doors but when they tend to add floorspace to any room they are added to. Especially when they are used in rooms that have smaller spaces to begin with.
For example, if you have a bathroom attached to your bedroom, then trading up your conventional swinging door for a sliding door can instantly add more floorspace to your bathroom/bedroom.
Wherever space is at a premium, sliding doors provide a great return on investment.
2. Functionality
Barn sliding doors are incredibly functional. They are accessible to people of all ages, from young children to adults who have their hands full. They also make moving furniture and yourself through your house very easy as they are rolling doors. They make narrow doorways in older houses easier to navigate. They also add to the open feeling in a larger home if you would like to keep your doors open.
Barn sliding doors are a very good addition to an open floor plan home. Since barn sliding doors are hung from tracks over the doorway, they can fit over almost all openings.
3. Aesthetic Value of your Home
While barn sliding doors have been around forever, they have recently achieved the coveted “trendy” status. While offering greater functionality to any home, they are also incredibly stylish on their own and be styled to match the aesthetic of your home. They can be easily painted, stained, oiled or lacquered. Due to their clean looks, they work well in older homes, as well as modern homes. Have a look at the barn sliding doors and the customizable options available on our website.
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4. Easy to Install almost DIY
Another huge advantage of a barn sliding door over a traditional swinging door is that they are very easy to install. So easy that you would be tempted to do-it-yourself!
Often times, traditional swinging doors need to be closely measured and be difficult to maneuver into pre-cut doorways that come with your home. The advantage of a sliding door is that you can take them with you even if you decide to move houses. Unlike a conventional swinging door, you will not need to replace the entire door frame even if you want to change the style of your barn sliding door.
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5. Privacy
Sliding barn doors provide privacy even in limited spaces. Have you ever been in a work meeting in your living room and prayed that no one would accidentally photobomb your meeting? Or that your children wouldn’t choose the exact moment of an important work meeting to play their games around your workspace? With more and more of us working from home, a barn sliding door can provide much needed privacy for your home.
Even going beyond workspaces and bathrooms, the separation and solitude that sliding doors offer are equally advantageous for guest bedrooms, activity rooms for children, meditation rooms, study rooms and so much more.
Sliding doors create a seamless transition between rooms, by providing instant privacy when you need it and uninterrupted flow when you don’t.
If you are interested in buying a wooden sliding barn door, have a look at our website.
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