Window installation - sliding terrace doors long-term experience

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For this house, a lift-and-slide door seems at least downright un-Frisian ;-)

I’m picking this up because that’s exactly the topic we talked about yesterday. Do you have to stick to one style completely once you start it, or can you, of course very carefully, also mix something without breaking the style?

Yes, besides a Frisian gable, we are also getting a classic red facing brick. Does this style now have to be carried through to the bitter end? Then the green front door must not be missing alongside the mullioned windows.

In the end, we'll create the "Pinterest Frisian house" which you can't even find like that on Sylt. We would also have to completely refurnish because hardly anything from our current apartment fits, unfortunately. Of course, this is deliberately exaggerated.

For this, I’ll take our kitchen purchase as an example. We started out with the wish for a "country house style." All the first options didn’t please us because it was somehow just too much. In the end, we agreed on the "modern country house style." Apparently, this is currently a term that has established itself.

I don’t want to find arguments to make something sound better than it is, but I want to get at the point that I can imagine connecting some modern elements, like a lift-and-slide door that you’d perhaps rather find in a city villa, with a classic house type.

If that succeeds, it would absolutely reflect our taste. But as mentioned above, to avoid a style clash, admittedly, that’s walking a fine line.

No, just a username. You know the floor plan of a private conversation about the windows ;-)

Ah, now yes ;-)

I wrote: "3) also go for a mullion sash on the terrace door (there is a central post in the plan);" and (referring to a three-part terrace door) "The size of the terrace door is fine like that. Only it is shown with a central post between the sashes to be opened. Therefore my recommendation to specifically request a mullion sash so that it is not accidentally designed with a post. The client often overlooks that on the inspection drawing. I used to be a window manufacturer, you pay attention to such things." What I had not yet considered, however, was cleaning the inside of the roller shutter on the fixed sash.

Ideal, as an alternative to folding sliding, could be: cascading mullions in sashes 2/3. That means sash 1 and 2 behave like a two-sash mullion door, and sash 3 can also be unlocked when sash 2 is opened, but only for cleaning purposes.

With three equal parts, each sash has a clear passage width under 80 cm. In practice that means: sash 1 is enough for ventilation and letting the cat in and out, but you will always want sash 2 open as well to pass through with a cake tray.

Do you have to carry a style through completely if you started with it, or can you, of course very carefully, also mix something without committing a stylistic faux pas?

Since there is no second Frisian gable on the relevant side – ships with two captains must also be an invention of landlubbers – I see no sacrilege here in an elevating sliding door as an exception (provided that this is already the total amount of free interpretation of the Frisian house pattern on this side). But then please, promised, without muntins ;-)