They are the ultimate in door functionality, versatility and design. You might remember seeing these types of doors in office buildings. They are used for enclosing personal offices, breaking up rooms up and numerous other applications. However, they certainly aren’t just for businesses these days. They currently grace the hundreds of thousands of homes around the country due to the bountiful options they provide and the functionality to be considered unrivaled in some areas of the home.

Generally speaking, the sizes of internal glass doors are available is a wide range. It all depends on your needs. Some of the most popular framing options are wood including species such as mahogany, maple, cherry, and Douglas fir. French doors that utilize glass are especially tasteful in just about any interior (or external, for that matter) arrangement. Furthermore, with some mid-tier and upper-end doors, the entire door is a frameless sheet of glass—they simply command awe in inspiration and design.

Another option is interior doors folding to the side. These types have been a hit for a long time not only for their space-saving, effortless opening and closure abilities–but also for the wide variety of elegant, durable design they boast. Framing materials offered in these systems are steel, wood, aluminum, aluminum-covered with wood and even PVC. As far as sizes, the sky’s the limit—everything from the smallest pantries and closets, to entire walls –such as the gliding glass variety commonly found that gracefully divide a large indoor room or outdoor patios from indoor living rooms.

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Often, these doors are called “accordion doors”, and rightfully so. They squeeze shut and expand to open. A few other styles you may be unaware of are louvered folding doors, folding screen doors and bi-folding doors. There is even a couple of German-based companies in the United States that specifically manufacture “glass walls” that are collapsible—a real treat to the eyes! Concluding this section, the de facto size is usually 6 feet and 4 or 6 panels per unit and, of course, they may be custom ordered to fit your dimensions.