French Doors or Patio?

2010

We are going to have our dining room window and the brickwork below removed and replaced with either french doors or a patio door.

I would appreciate any opinions before we take the final decision which to go for.

Becles

We've got french doors in the dining room. Personally I think they look better than patio doors, but that's just personal preference. I like them as you can have both open and it makes the room feel really airy, but if you are outside, they stick out onto the patio.

Patio doors solve the doors sticking out problem, but you can only have half of the space open.

Does that make sense?

hethmar

Definitely french doors are much more chic

Mayflower10cat

French doors look so much nicer! And, if you use parliament hinges, the doors will open 180 degrees and sit flat to the wall.

Inactive

Patio Doors, they can just be slid back and left at any position.

No problem with the wind catching them when they are open.;)

Jackinbox99

Ive had bad experiences with french doors sagging over time, and also people walking into them when they are open. So personally id go with a patio door.

LandyAndy

Given the choice I'd go for folding patio doors.



Best of both worlds

Inactive

LandyAndy wrote: »

Given the choice I'd go for folding patio doors.


Best of both worlds

Little wonder they cannot afford proper curtains to fit.:D

LandyAndy

Inactive wrote: »

Little wonder they cannot afford proper curtains to fit.:D

:rotfl::rotfl:

I hadn't noticed that. I just pulled the first photo that illustrated what I meant.:(

smorgo

We've just had a bay window with French doors replaced with bi-folding doors. In our case, they open into a new conservatory and really allow the two rooms to be linked together. When the doors are fully opened, they take up about 10" of the 8' opening.