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Very cool looking, but why a sliding door?

12 years ago

I can see stylistically it is probably meant to pick up the airport/hangar door motif, but does it slide over to the other opening for another purpose? Perhaps there's a toilet there it provides privacy for?

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Architectural Workshop

12 years ago

The door provides a splash protection on the shower side (shown in this picture) and when sliding it the other direction it covers the opening to the actual toilet/bidet portion of the bathroom providing privacy as assumed in your comment.

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mindyk9
12 years ago
Love the sliding shower glass door
Llew Quinol
12 years ago
Where can I get a sliding glass door like that? Was that custom made for this project
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Architectural Workshop
12 years ago
The glass used is standard 3/8” sand blasted plate glass. The glass has a natural light green tint similar to the glass tiles.
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Architectural Workshop
12 years ago
The hardware is standard stainless steel barn door hardware for glass doors with a slight tweak to attach to the ceiling - a custom detail that any glass door installer should be able to provide.
susanking1130
12 years ago
This is exactly what I want to do in my bathroom project. Does the glass door have a floor glider? Please tell me the hardware vendor so I can get my glass guy on the tweak design. Thank you!
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Architectural Workshop
12 years ago
No floor glider, just four guides which show in the picture. This is standard barn door hardware - any vendor will do. The only custom 'tweak' is that the pipe return / is attached to the ceiling.

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