Home design trends now favor merging rooms and minimizing walls to create spacious feel. Areas like kitchen, dining and living rooms, can be merged as a single room without any partitions, or at least separated but still providing clear visual between the spaces. One of the more frequently applied solutions is the use of aluminum sliding doors that usually comes with clear glass panels.

While separating rooms without restricting the visual, aluminum sliding doors are also installed for the benefit of flexibility and better accessibility. This flexibility is achieved by sliding open the typically wider panels and effectively a single, larger room when both rooms are connected.

Until recently, many types of aluminum sliding doors have been developed with varying panel numbers that can be installed on a single frame. Let's explore the types of aluminum sliding doors based on the number of panels:

1. Two panels aluminum sliding doors

Typically, many aluminum sliding doors come with two panels. As a minimal number of panels for a sliding door, this type is mainly used in rooms with limited spaces. Two panels aluminum doors are ideal for spaces that require both visual connection and occasional partitioning. Some of the examples are dining room and kitchen, or home office and living room. For additional privacy, living room and bedroom in an apartment, for example, can be separated by two panels aluminum sliding doors that has fabric curtain attached.

2. Three panels aluminum sliding doors

A house featuring a backyard or inner courtyard could benefit from using three panels aluminum sliding doors. As a partition between outdoor and indoor, the width of three panels aluminum sliding doors could entirely replace a wall. By using aluminum sliding doors, the view towards the outside will be maximized and the courtyard could be enjoyed without the need of opening a door.

3. Four panels aluminum sliding doors

Because of the even numbers of panels, four panels aluminum sliding doors usually come with two railings and can be opened from the middle. With the symmetrical and wide opening, installing four panels aluminum sliding doors highlights the luxury and spacious feels of a house especially for the more extensive ones with many openings. Besides setting it up as a balcony door or opening towards a backyard, four panels aluminum sliding doors could also be treated as a partition between two rooms for enhanced flexibility.

4. Corner sliding aluminum doors

One of the most recent TOSTEM's innovations is an angular corner aluminum siding door. Corner sliding door usually features even numbers of panels without any supporting column at the corner when all the panels are opened. This door is suitable for homes built on corner land plots or homes with expansive courtyards for the corner openings to be fully utilized. With the distinctive corner design, rooms that use this type of aluminum sliding door will feel spacious especially when all panels are opened.