Sliding windows: increasingly trendy furnishing solutions

Today we are going to talk about full glass sliding windows, a fashionable furnishing solution that has been very popular in Italy and elsewhere for a few years now. By setting up this type of fixtures in the environment of a living room or a kitchen you can give life to a fascinating play of light and transparency, making your environment particularly alive and bright.

This furnishing solution is perfect for those who want to create a strong visual impact and eye-catcher inside their spaces, creating an intense connection between internal and external space while maintaining their privacy, thanks to the presence of tinted glass.

In the following paragraphs we will discover the main features and peculiarities of sliding windows, we will also talk about the countless advantages that characterize this type of fixtures.

Sliding French doors: characteristics and peculiarities

One of the greatest advantages that characterize sliding French doors is represented by the great contribution of light that these frames are able to offer to your living spaces. A sliding French window is in fact able to promote the entry of natural light into your spaces, thanks to its extremely thin profiles and its great transparency.

The only problem related to the installation of sliding French windows in one's own spaces is represented by the possible presence of urban or environmental constraints, potentially able to limit the renovation of a property. Urban and environmental constraints affect in particular the historic centers of many Italian cities.

Sliding French doors are able to give great brightness to one's home environments, representing the perfect furnishing solution to be inserted in the context of new constructions and renovations of modern and contemporary houses. Another advantage of a sliding door is represented by the energy saving that these frames are able to offer: thanks to the installation of a sliding door is in fact possible to benefit from an important containment of energy costs in the bill, thanks to the insulating properties of this type of frames.

In recent years in particular, thanks to the latest technological innovations (especially with regard to the materials used for the construction of sliding doors and windows) these frames have become capable of offering very high performance with regard to thermal and acoustic insulation.

Today, the market sector is able to offer the widest range of solutions for the purchase and installation of this architectural solution: in this regard we would like to point out that on the market today are available sliding windows of all sizes, economic sliding windows and even retractable sliding windows and able to respond concretely to every need and specific needs.

Lighting conceived as a real architectural component

Lighting is everything when it comes to interior design: modern houses generally tend to have minimalist architectural spaces and furnishings: in these contexts light almost always plays the role of absolute protagonist. In this regard, the installation of sliding French windows represents a furnishing solution capable of enhancing the natural lighting inside one's domestic spaces.

In particular, sliding windows represent a congenial solution for all those environments created and conceived with inspiration from the industrial furnishing style: just think of the typical urban profiles and large windows. The profiles of modern sliding French windows tend to be as thin as possible, covering almost completely the supporting structure of the window, making the sashes disappear.

With a sliding French window it becomes possible to play with the perception of volumes, especially in furnishing contexts characterized by rather limited and contained spaces. Thanks to the placement of large windows, the house takes on great elegance, also giving ample space to the rooms.

Last but not least, how can we not consider the green and eco-sustainable aspect that characterizes sliding French windows: in fact, all-glass windows allow natural light to enter their rooms for most of the day. In this way you can significantly reduce energy costs, as mentioned above.

Thanks to the installation of sliding French windows you can enjoy a great sense of freedom in your home, especially if the view outside is particularly impressive.

Sliding patio doors: main types and price range

Let's discover together the main types of sliding doors and their price ranges. From a mechanical point of view, sliding window frames are distinguished respectively in 3 categories:

• In-line sliding frames: composed of two wings that move and two parallel tracks. The main advantage of these frames is that they are particularly economical. The only disadvantage of an in-line sliding window is instead represented by its limited thermal insulation capacity.
• Sliding and sliding window frames: consisting of a fixed sash and an opening sash capable of sliding. When the window is opened, the sliding sash will be in a position parallel to the fixed sash; when the window is closed, the movable sash will be placed side by side with the fixed one. The two sashes will thus become coplanar.
• Lifting frames: perfect furnishing solution in the presence of large windows, opening on each sash. This type of furnishing solution will allow the possibility to raise and slide the frame. The advantage that characterizes this type of mechanism is represented by the possibility to benefit from lowered thresholds: the latter represent the ideal solution when there are children or elderly people in the house.

In addition to these types of sliding windows, there are also blackout sliding windows, which allow you to maintain high standards of privacy within your living spaces.

Let's come to the prices related to the purchase of sliding patio doors. In general terms, we can say that this type of frames are highly customizable furnishing elements. For this reason it will be difficult to establish a unique cost. The price will in fact be influenced by several factors, and in particular:

• the material used for the realization of profiles
• the type of opening of the frame
• type of glass mounted and its characteristics
• the size of the frame
• the color of the frame
• the accessories of the frame, mainly related to its safety