13 Design Ideas for Bifold Doors

Bifold doors and sliding doors make can be a great thing to add to a home during renovation projects and extensions. Bifolding and sliding doors come in a wide range of flexible styles and designs. They work well to create a link between the inside and outside of a home. Whether it’s as part of a patio or open plan kitchen and dining room, these doors showcase your home design from every location.

If you’ve put time into creating a patio or deck, you’ll love how much bifold and sliding doors complement a design. We have some of the most stylish and versatile ideas to incorporate into your bi-fold door and sliding door designs that will inspire you.

1. Link Your Outdoor and Indoor Areas

When your priority is to maximise space in a house and make a seamless connection between the indoors and outdoors, sliding windows and doors are a good option. Using similar or identical flooring in both areas will only work to enhance the connection between them.

2. Extra Natural Light in a Dark Room

If you have a dark kitchen that looks out onto a walled patio or garden area, bifold doors will maximise the light that enters the room. It will also help to maximise space with the door panels folding in on each other. Depending on your overall design, choosing a white colour scheme will give a weightless look to the doors.

3. Conservatories

Conservatories are a great candidate for decorative bifold doors. These are designed to bring the garden inside the home and benefit from being as transparent as possible. This can be done with glass bifold doors. Aluminium bifold doors can also add an elegant dimension to the whole design too.

4. A Wall of Doors to Improve a Kitchen and Dining Room

For a long open plan kitchen and dining room, bifold doors and sliding doors will both look amazing. Having doors run the full length of the combined rooms will be stylish, grand and spacious. It will also bathe the room in a lot of natural light, particularly if your kitchen is in a  dark corner of the house.

5. Minimalism is Key

If you prefer for your interior design to be minimal, streamlined and simple, choosing the right doors to match is important. Avoid intricate designs and aim for a more smooth and effortless flow to the space.

6. Bifold Doors on a Balcony or Terrace

A balcony or terrace can even benefit from space-saving and increase in natural light that bifold doors offer. Bifolds can make the most of a small space like a balcony and give you the biggest door opening possible. 

7. Full Length, Top to Bottom

Bifold doors may look a little busy in a home with an ultra-modern design. So, why not make the whole wall a sliding door? Adding a sliding door wall will completely transform the space into an open-plan look.

8. Classic Design in Traditional Rooms

If you’re adding traditional rooms to your house, a bifold design will work well. Timber bifold doors will give the room a classic feel and open up the house on warm days

9. Join Different Door Styles in Unusual Spaces

There’s no reason why you can’t combine bifold and sliding doors if the room needs it. Take a flexible approach, nothing is set in stone. With proper guidance, you’ll end up with something totally unique and functional for your home.

10. Open Up Your Garden Area

Homes that have cramped or hard to get to back garden areas will greatly benefit from a sliding door by opening the door parallel with the wall.

11. Mix Up The Colours

Do you like the thought of having a different exterior colour to your interior? By using composite bifold and sliding doors, this can be achieved. If you have a dark exterior and want a bright interior, this would be perfect.

12. Bifold Doors in an Older Home

Bifold and sliding doors can easily fit with an older home. You can make an extension look bright, open and allow light through while respecting the original architecture.

13. Bifolds with Built-in Screens

Australia gets hot in Summer, and the insects are relentless. Built-in screens will stop you from overheating inside while reaping the benefits of your doors.

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