Sliding doors in the house?

Can only recommend, you save a lot of space

Realistically, only if decides on an inward-running system

Construction expert on the go

I am a bit conflicted... we have a sliding lift door and out of all the door and window elements, it feels like the most fragile. It has the worst U-value, has squeaked before, and always gives me a headache when the children mess around with it. On the other hand, of course it's nice that it is not in the way - but in my opinion that is often just a crutch when you have messed up the planning.

The romance and the idea of the door to the world always being open – especially in summer – also did not really happen, since it was always significantly warmer outside than inside; only in the transitional seasons can you leave it open sometimes.

Realistically, only if opts for an inside-running system

Why? Even a wall-mounted system requires much less free space than a normal door, doesn't it? Of course, a good portion of that area is used as passage space anyway, but it is still space that cannot be used otherwise.

Seen in this way, a sliding door running on the wall provides less space. A normal door usually only opens into the traffic area; a sliding door takes away wall space.

If the sliding door runs into the wall, the requirements for the statics of the walls/ceiling increase, as the wall opening becomes twice as wide.

A space-saving option would be a door that opens into the frame, but the extra cost is hardly worth it.

Hello,
we have a sliding door in the kitchen to the pantry. The entrance is between our island and the kitchen unit, a normal door would have just been in the way there. I think it's great....
I would have liked to have several more of them, but that would have been very complicated due to the drywall.
Now we have a normal door to the pantry in the kitchen and it's just in the way, never again...

Oh... interior sliding doors. We have a double door – running on the outside. It’s always open – we could have just left a hole. It hardly takes up any space because the cabinets simply stand on the other wall (the orthogonal one) and then 10 cm away from the sliding door wall. I would recommend everyone to plan the living spaces so that doors – whether sliding or regular – don’t get in the way when they are open (ideally even 180°); then the issue with space-consuming sliding doors becomes less significant.