Unhinging Compact Bathrooms: Sliding Door Designs For Your Bathroom

Creating functional and spacious bathrooms is a challenge in many homes, given their typically compact size. Achieving both maximum space and seamless functionality can be difficult, but modern sliding door designs offer a stylish and efficient solution. These doors are not only practical but also exemplify contemporary decor trends, making them an ideal choice for enhancing both the aesthetics and usability of bathroom spaces.

Sliding doors provide hassle-free functionality, seamless user experience and a clean yet sophisticated aesthetic vibe. Hence they are used mostly in the washrooms, sometimes as wooden wardrobe doors, sometimes in the form of frosted glass dividing the shower area and in some cases as the rustic barn-styled main doors. Sliding doors for the bathroom come in various designs and styles, and in the contemporary market, the options are huge, so we've brought some of the most trendy yet timeless designs for a modern bathroom sliding door.

Barn-Style Sliding Doors

Barn sliding doors are known for their compatibility and the aesthetic of their machinery, which flaunts itself in the open and is designed to complement the vibe of the door itself. Mostly made of wood and glass, these sliding doors have trackpads at the top of the frame on the wall, which is visible from the outside. The doors slide on the wheels attached to the trackpad. They are compatible because of this particular design style as it takes less space to fit this machinery and could be functional in even a small frame, which most sliding doors that stack on each other cannot.

Design Tip- Use an abstract, sharp design on ceramic barn doors, treat them like curtains, and support the design with spotlighting. See the difference it makes in your washroom!

Pocket Doors

Another compact sliding door design, which does not have the usual stacking over mechanism, can be opened to go inside the wall, avoiding as much space as possible. The only demand for these types of doors is a thick wall that has space to park these doors. Pocket sliding doors for washrooms are efficient because they do not take any extra space. Instead, they get inside walls to use the already available space. They look very modular in washrooms and create a pocket if used as a divider for the shower area.

Design Tip- Use textured glass on steel or wooden pockets and keep warm lighting inside the bathroom.

Rectangle Sliding Glass Door

Rectangle sliding glass doors are used in compact bathrooms to create an illusion of space. The glass lets light pass through and spread over the whole space. Like most sliding doors, they are used in the shower area only. They sometimes have frosted glass over them to pass a controlled amount of light and keep the privacy of the space intact.

Design Tip- Use a frosted glass with patterns and leave space inside the shower area to let the sunlight enter the washroom through the frosted glass. It will create an eccentric effect for your washroom.

Wooden Panelled Glass Door

These doors give a very old French vibe to the whole washroom. It uses water-resistant polishes over wood to avoid its direct contact with water while using laminate glass panels to avoid any wreckage. They can be used in various places in the washroom itself- the shower area, cutting it away from the whole washroom, giving it its own space, the wardrobes- they look very elegant and become highly functional. For washrooms with luxurious items like jacuzzi, they can provide a whole separate space.

Design Tip- Keep the wood and glass simple and on the polish of the wooden panel.

Brutalist Design Sliding Door

One of today’s most simple yet impactful designs is the brutalist design style, which focuses primarily on efficiency rather than aesthetics. This design fits perfectly with what a bathroom needs to achieve, while sliding doors cover the rest of them. Brustalist sliding doors are made mainly of steel or glass, with a simple and raw design. Mostly used to divide the shower area, brutalist-style sliding doors could also be used as main doors. They will provide a sense of openness while not lacking in the aesthetics, that is, the beauty and USP of brutalism and sliding doors themselves.

Design Tip- Use a mix of dark and light colours, try a monochromatic colour scheme and match the design of the door with the walls and ceiling of the washroom.

Slide Your Way Into Functional Bathrooms

Sliding doors in modern architecture are becoming a solution for many shortcomings and limitations, and compact washrooms are one the most widely resolved solutions now. You can easily find sliding wooden doors in wardrobes and glassed ones in the shower area. Designs like barn doors or pocket doors are still not as widely accepted, but they are very effective and have the ability to change the whole style-scape of modern architecture.

You just need to find the right type according to your needs and wants, and the experts in Interior Company can help you equip your washroom with efficiency and style. Get in touch with us and slide yourself into modern aesthetics.

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