Sliding Doors designed for Coastal living
Canford Cliffs is a popular Dorset coastal village with gentle sandy beaches and picturesque wooden huts. Our clients’ detached house is just 5 minutes from the sea, but its mid-century layout and appearance just wasn’t working for them. A stunning renovation and extension project to expand their ground floor living space and open its interior to more light with full height glazing has updated their handsome house to a fabulous contemporary family home.
Glass Wall Entrance
At the front of the house there is now a statement entrance with double glass doors. Fully glazed aluminium front doors from the ODC External Doors range surrounded by glass walling. Modular curtain walling, made off-site and suitable for replacing any non-load bearing wall, is a spectacular glazing solution to create impact with minimal structural change. Here the glass wall creates a light-filled atrium entrance hall in which a spectacular steel chandelier holds centre court. The entrance roof is glass too – it’s a bespoke lean-to roof structure designed to maximise light in the very centre of the house.
Sliding Doors with minimal sightlines
To the rear of the house a wide extension opens out to a full width patio, a well-equipped outdoor kitchen and green lawns. The kitchen, snug, dining and living space all have floor to ceiling ODC SL320 sliding glass doors chosen for their minimal 20mm sightlines. Each system has flush threshold access to the outside to create that seamless link to the garden. In the open plan kitchen-dining area, three and two panel sliding systems offers flexible, versatile access with as much or little opening to the outside as the weather dictates.
The L-shaped garage conversion, now housing a bar, home cinema and a beloved motorbike, has a 90 degree floor to ceiling corner fixed window to deliver even more light and wrap-around garden views.
Anthracite grey door frames complement and modernise
From the outset, the client specified Anthracite Grey sliding door frames and we think he has made a good call – the frame colour contrasts with internal exposed red brick, white walls and warm parquet flooring. Their matched handles are sleek and unobtrusive.
Extension
Sliding System:ODC SL320 Sliding Doors Systems
Windows:Full height fixed windows
Glass Walling:Curtain walling for front entrance
Front door:Bespoke fully glazed double front doors
Glass roof:Lean-to bespoke glass roof for front entrance
Location:Dorset coast
Glazing Highlights:Statement double height glazed entrance
I knew what I wanted and ODC had exactly that!
We saw an ODC advert in a local magazine and knew straight away that was what we wanted – a particular type of window and door with very thin sightlines. We did have two other companies in the frame, but when we went to the ODC showroom and outlined our budget, they were able to meet all our requirements. The visit was really useful. You can see what you are buying, everything manufactured under one roof and under ODC’s control.
I was looking for doors with minimal amount of frame and saw the SL320s with 20mm frames would give me just that and so that’s why we went with them. I wanted a statement entrance and they had a front door and glass wall design that was what I was looking for. The cost was well worth it because ODC were able to give me exactly what I wanted.
From the moment we placed the order and ODC came and took measurements for the survey, there were no problems at all. We agreed site levels, they kept me updated with the whole manufacturing process and possible installation date. The fitters were excellent, very precise, the thresholds were installed exactly at right right levels and worked perfectly. They did meet a problem with a front door fabrication detail, but it wasn’t an issue – they found a solution, and handled it very ably and efficiently, which was good. Everything went really well – just really good – I’ve got a developer friend who admires my doors every time he comes around!
