Glass sliding door to the kitchen

Hello everyone,

we are currently facing a small problem with the planning of our kitchen door. The kitchen will be built in a U shape, and the kitchen door will lead centrally at the bottom into the living room area. We have decided on a closed kitchen, but to get a bit more light and space, we want to install a glass sliding door on the living room side instead of a standard door. The wall and door opening are not yet precisely defined but need to be decided on soon.

The problem arises when you look at the measurements in the plan. The standard width of the door would be 90 cm. If the door is placed exactly in the middle, there would be 0.77 cm of space remaining to the wall on the right side for sliding the glass door from the outer right door opening, and 87 cm of space to the next door entrance on the left side from the outer left door opening. Unfortunately, both are too little, as the glass door would require about 93 cm of space on each side.

We have come up with the following solutions: 1. Shift the door opening slightly further to the right; because of the U shape of the kitchen, this can be done by a maximum of 12 cm, which would then create the possibility of opening the sliding door to the left. Opening to the left is not necessarily our favorite.

2. Make the glass sliding door double-leaf. This would mean each side would be about 45 cm wide and would open to the right and left respectively. This would no longer be a space problem, but a disadvantage here is probably the poorer stability of 45 cm glass doors, so this would need to be executed with a bottom guide rail or a proper reinforcement on the top track, which is not as visually appealing.

3. Reduce the door opening to an 80 or 85 cm door width; the glass would probably be a custom-made piece. With the available space, the door could then be opened to the right. The disadvantage, however, is only 80 or 85 cm width.

For better overview, I have also sketched a small plan...

Perhaps you have similar experiences and/or ideas regarding sliding door design/orientation that can help us.

What is the sliding door supposed to achieve?

In any case, S-doors running openly in front of the wall hardly reduce noises and odors....

What is the sliding door supposed to achieve?

In any case, noise and odors are hardly reduced by S-doors running openly in front of the wall....

What is the sliding door supposed to achieve?

Noise and smells hardly escape at all through sliding doors running openly in front of the wall....

Primarily, it is difficult to install a "normal" door at that spot due to space constraints, as there is neither enough space on the kitchen side nor on the living room side, or it is rather suboptimal because of the door radius. It was important for us to have a closed kitchen, both as a separation from the living area and also against, for example, smells. Clearly, with a sliding door, this is more of a compromise, achieving a bit of everything but nothing perfectly, but so far we haven’t come up with a better solution for that spot...

Are there 2-wing glass swing doors?

I can hardly think of anything more impractical ...

But it probably exists [emoji1]