Glass doors are indispensable in your home. How to choose glass?

Generally, there are glass doors in almost all homes, but what kind of glass should be used where, how many layers should be used, and how to choose them all require planning in advance. Today take a look at the glass options for these glass doors and where to use them.

▲Kitchen glass sliding door with black metal frame. The material must be distinguished here. This is also a titanium-magnesium alloy, but the width of the profile is different and the requirements for the glass used are different. General sliding doors can be double-layered with ordinary transparent glass to ensure strength and sound insulation requirements. However, some profiles cannot be installed with double-layer glass and can only use single-layer ordinary glass, which greatly reduces the strength. If you can only use a single layer, remember to temper it to improve the safety of the glass. As shown in the picture above, although there are large areas of glass, there are Tianzi grids, some panoramic doors, and the whole is glass. If you have children, you must pay attention to the fact that single or double layers can be tempered

▲The kitchen wooden sliding door uses ordinary single-layer or double-layer glass. It is recommended to use transparent glass, which is more visually transparent and can enlarge the space. It also allows for better lighting. Relatively speaking, wooden sliding doors are stronger and visually thicker, but precisely because of this characteristic of wooden doors, they can make small spaces look bloated and unsimple, and are mostly used in Chinese style

▲It is also possible to use metal folding doors in the kitchen. Transparent glass is usually double-layer ordinary glass, or tempered glass can be used, depending on your needs

▲Ordinary metal sliding doors like this are usually double-layered with ordinary 4MM thick glass, which can be tempered, depending on the demand

▲The 5 cm wide profile sliding door in the kitchen is made of panoramic transparent glass and double-layer glass. It must be noted here that if there are children at home, this kind of panoramic glass door is the most suitable. It is best to use tempered glass to improve the safety of the glass. If the child is very naughty, this kind of panoramic door not only needs to be tempered, it is best to buy an explosion-proof film and put it on yourself, so that even if the heart breaks accidentally, it will not hurt anyone.

▲The same kitchen uses a five-centimeter black profile sliding door, and the glass is the most popular Changhong glass. Note here that generally this profile can be used as double-layer glass. , but generally for visual beauty and For light transparency, you can use Changhong glass facing outwards, which is beautiful, and transparent glass facing inward, so that both safety and beauty can be achieved. If you use double-layer Changhong glass, the kitchen space will definitely not be so transparent.

▲Note that the one directly facing the picture above is the narrow-framed Internet celebrity door of the kitchen. It uses transparent glass inside and Changhong glass on the outside. Note that the left side is more transparent. The two bathroom doors are also made of Changhong glass, but the privacy is very good, because the outer layer of Changhong is made of sandblasted glass for the sake of beauty, so as to ensure that the bathroom is beautiful and privacy is ensured.

▲Balcony doors are generally made of transparent glass for daylighting. Panoramic glass has a better view. By the same token, at least It is double-layer glass, which improves safety. It can also be tempered. It is better for children to buy explosion-proof film and put it on.

▲There are many family living rooms that need to dry clothes on the balcony, and if it is too messy and unsightly, you can use Changhong glass sliding doors. If you want a panoramic view, it must be double-layered, facing the living room. For the sake of beauty, Changhong has transparent glass inside the balcony, which does not affect the lighting. This can avoid the embarrassment of messy clothes on the balcony

▲When making a panoramic door in the bathroom, you must pay attention. If you use Changhong glass, it must not be two layers of Changhong glass. Otherwise, it will be very light-transmitting and have no privacy at all, because there are two pieces of Changhong glass. texture It matches perfectly and does not function as a double layer. It must be made of Changhong on the outside for the sake of beauty, and sandblasted glass on the inside for privacy. Only in this way can the two layers of different textures be pressed together to ensure privacy in the bathroom.

▲If your bathroom door faces the public area, that is, it faces the living room or can be seen from the dining room, absolutely do not use sandblasted glass doors. It doesn’t matter during the day. At night, the brighter the lights in the bathroom, the clearer the figures are , very embarrassing. This has nothing to do with the number of layers of glass you have. This is the characteristic of sandblasted glass. Unless the bathroom door does not face the public area, or the main bathroom is available, if a guest comes at night and someone goes to the toilet, the shadows will be too big when the light is turned on. Clear, very embarrassing

▲If it can be double-layered, the privacy effect of diamond glass is better than that of sandblasted glass, but it must be two layers of diamond glass or one layer of diamond and one layer of sandblasting. Different textures superimpose privacy. The difference is that the effect is better. The clarity of the metal partitions on the door. For example, if the outside is transparent glass and the inside is diamond, the partition will be clearer. If the outside is diamond and the inside is transparent glass, the partition will be blurry. If it is two layers of diamond glass, the middle will be clear. The spacers are just not that clear, but it doesn’t affect use