The difference between barn door and sliding door
2020-07-04

According to the difference in the transparency of its material, the sliding door has the function of blocking the sight to varying degrees. Different functional areas have different requirements for visibility. When dividing a large space into a small space through partitions, lighting issues must also be considered.


The advantages of the barn door:
1. Simple installation: The barn door is actually a type of sliding door, its track is exposed to the outside, so the installation method is very simple.

2. Space saving: because compared with other types of sliding doors, such barn doors are more space-saving, and also solve the problem that the sliding door cannot be installed because the door opening is small.

3. With closedness: After the barn door is installed, it has excellent closedness. Therefore, in the modern interior decoration, barn doors are most often installed in kitchens, study rooms, main bathrooms and other places with high mobility.

4. Strong decoration: In the impression of people, the barn door is often considered to have an American country flavor, but the modern new barn door has been processed and designed with rich colors and shapes, which is more decorative.
5. Strong plasticity: The plasticity of the barn door actually means that if blackboard paper or cork is affixed to the door panel, for example, if it is placed in the child's room, you can draw some patterns on it according to the child's preferences. The living room appears more lively and vivid.
6. High load-bearing requirements: The barn door has relatively high requirements on the load-bearing capacity of the wall. Since the barn door is suspended, it completely depends on the sliding and stress of the track, so the wall where the barn door is installed must be able to bear the load. .

Advantages of sliding doors:
1. Enhancing privacy: In modern life, spaces such as bathroom and bedroom are no longer surrounded by fixed four brick walls as before. In the personalized design, bathrooms with transparent glass abound. In order to protect the privacy of life, the entrances of these areas can be blocked by moving sliding doors.
2. Increase the flexibility of the space: the sliding door can be started or moved at any time according to the use requirements, decoration style, and structural form, and the space can also be divided or combined, becoming larger or smaller, and more flexible as the owner wishes.
3. Separation of space: No matter how different the styles of sliding doors are, they all play the role of space limitation and separation without exception.
4. Appropriate sound insulation: Soft sponges, fabrics, foams and other materials have certain sound absorption capabilities, so the sliding doors decorated with these materials have good sound insulation.
5. Blocking the sight: According to the difference in the transparency of the material of the sliding door, it can block the sight in different degrees. Different functional areas have different requirements for visibility. When dividing a large space into a small space through partitions, lighting issues must also be considered.

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