Interior doors separate different rooms in the home and can isolate smaller storage spaces, such as laundry rooms and closets. Here are 7 solutions to consider on where and how to implement them to optimize interior space.

Interior doors

1 – Clarify spaces

Equipment and accessories piled up on shelves, in the nooks and crannies of the kitchen or in the recesses of a hallway, fill the walls and weigh down the atmosphere of the home. Enclosing these objects and appliances in a dedicated space frees up the walls. Well arranged, these new cupboards and laundry rooms compensate for the loss of surface by a better distribution which tends to reinforce the feeling of space.

2 – Mobilize the space above the interior doors

This new arrangement does not prevent the use of shelves above the doors to hold books or baskets. The top of the front door is very practical for storing accessories used occasionally. It is also a solution widely used in hotels to optimize circulation space.

Storage above doors

3 – Gaining an extra room

The creation of an office or a dressing room is generally done in the most spacious rooms of the house. But here again, saving space depends on the relevance of the new layout and its ability to create new rooms without suffocating them. This is sometimes a complex challenge, especially when it comes to creating two rooms where the initial space has only one window.

4 – Choose glass partition interior doors

Creating an additional room without confining spaces is a delicate task that relies essentially on the efficiency of the partitioning and its ability to keep optimal light in each room. Depending on the number of openings and their positioning, the separation can result in a new room without natural light. This situation reinforces the feeling of enclosure on already relatively small surfaces. In this case, the use of a glass door is essential so that the light can circulate freely through both spaces.

Glass partition doors

5 – Installing sliding interior doors

Sliding doors for closets and laundry rooms simplify access to storage spaces without losing usable space. Where traditional swinging doors require the use of space for movement, sliding doors leave this space completely free for movement. Depending on the configuration, the installation can be based on a single sliding door or on several panels. The door slides on a suspended or floor-mounted track, with the possibility of leaving the system visible or hiding it behind a panel.

Bypass sliding closet doors

6 – Even better: sliding pocket doors

With pocket doors, the sliding doors are concealed into the wall. Their presence remains unnoticed in the open position and can be discreet when closed. As the track system is embedded in the wall, the walls remain fully usable for decoration or furniture arrangement. This type of sliding door is a great space saver for the occupants and should be considered before adding a new partition, to ensure that it can accommodate a sliding system.

Sliding pocket door
Sliding pocket door

7 – Last solution: sliding folding doors

Although sliding panels, and more particularly sliding systems, offer significant space savings, they are not always technically feasible. The most cramped and narrow configurations are not suitable. In these situations, the traditional swing door is not an ideal alternative either, since it requires a significant setback when opening. At the crossroads between the swing and sliding door, the folding door has two major advantages. First, its multiple folding panels allow it to considerably reduce the setback required to open. Secondly, the folding door does not require a minimum of available lateral space, as can be the case with a sliding installation.

Sliding folding doors
Sliding folding doors

Simplify installation with complete sliding system kits

The advantage sliding doors is that you can save the heavy lifting and make interesting changes in space management. While the installation of a new partition requires the services of professionals, our ready-to-install kits allow you to install a sliding door by yourself.

We offer several kits for the installation of sliding systems for different purposes:

– Closet doors: sliding systems with or without floor track
– Interior partition doors: pocket door hardware, wall or ceiling-mounted track
– Interior glass doors: sliding door hardware with clamps

For closets, these kits cover hanging and floor-mounted sliding systems, as well as folding and cabinet door sliding systems. Partition doors can be implemented using wall-mounted sliding hardware, with or without visible fasteners, and with sliding hardware specially designed to secure the operation of glass doors.