Garage doors are designed, developed and conceived with one purpose in mind and one purpose only. Keeping your garage – and what’s inside– safe. [Related topic: Garrison Garage Doors]
However, these heavy duty doors can be so beautiful and highly functional, to the point many people are looking to turn them into interior and exterior walls as well as windows. And this is a concept that has surpassed the realm of modern housing; many offices and workshops are also using garage doors to replace walls.
One of the reasons garage door walls are becoming so popular is because they allow closing spaces whilst maintaining a perception and feeling of openness. Furthermore, when using garage doors as windows, they allow a lot more natural light in, and when open, they provide a feeling of integration between the outside and the inside.
The beauty of these doors can be appreciated on many interior design and architecture publications in which many houses with garage door walls have been featured. Further, given the need some people have developed for bigger and more open living spaces, many have turned their garages into a living space and integrated it into their original home area with a see-thru garage door wall.
These floor-to-ceiling sliding garage doors that collapse sideways to open to beautiful gardens or even backyards with pools, even on two floors, can create an atmosphere of a fully open house integrated with its surroundings, which is a very attractive concept, especially, for those who are jaded of the grayness of urban life surrounded by concrete.