Room Divider Ideas

The best feature of sliding doors is their flexibility. They can be designed to fit into just about any room and almost any style, which is why you should make them a part of your space planning. Sliding door sets can be used as room dividers, or even entire walls. If you are looking for some ideas on how to design a sliding door system for your home or office, continue reading.

Divide a large open plan living area

OvertakingDoors cavity slider system with aluminium doors 

This expansive home features large living spaces and extra high ceilings, great for entertaining, but with the potential to be empty and echoey at other times. The OvertakingDoors cavity slider system with aluminium doors creates an impressive 4.6m high x 4.4m wide clear opening that can effortlessly be closed off when required to create more intimate spaces.

Another set of Overtaking doors divides this kitchen and living area. Designed to be kept open most of the time, the full height sliding door track sits flush with the ceiling and the doors slide fully back into the pocket in the wall.

OvertakingDoors cavity slider system with flush aluminium doors

Kitchens are often the hub of the modern home but it’s not always ideal to have the noise and smell from the cooking area permeating the entire house. Sliding pantry doors are a common feature that allow you to hide the mess of the pantry from view, but also consider a sliding kitchen door to divide the kitchen from the living area. Glazed doors like this 1-Lite NewYorker are a good option that still enable light flow between spaces.

Close off an area for privacy

OvertakingDoors cavity slider system with NewYorker doors

This meeting room is created within a larger space by using corner meeting full height sliding doors. When the doors are fully open, the space is large and expansive. The cavity sliding doors can be closed to create a private space for consultations or meetings. Glazed NewYorker doors ensure light flow and visibility.

Use a feature barn door as a divider

CS BarnDoorTracks with custom door

Solid timber barn doors are a popular trend that looks here to stay for the foreseeable future. This oversized classic barn door is a beautiful feature in its own right – whether the door is open or closed. The problem of how to divide these two rooms has been cleverly solved by using two CS Barn Door Tracks either side of a central beam for one large barn door. CS sliding barn door hardware is a heavy duty barn door track system capable of supporting very heavy doors with a beautifully smooth rolling action. Soft close is available with these sliding doors for the ultimate luxury solution.

Create an enclosed room within a room

CS Partition-TopMountTrack with NewYorker doors

This room divider uses sliding door tracks to create wall dividers to screen a kitchen area from the rest of the space. The clear glass doors allow light to flow between the areas, and doors can be closed off when required to allow for more privacy or to reduce noise flow between zones. The CS Partition Top Mount Track is available with a legged pelmet for ceiling tiles to rest on, making it a suitable sliding door solution for many commercial projects.

Multi-purpose room dividers

Overtaking cavity sliders with NewYorker doors incorporating a combination of clear glass and whiteboard

The education sector requires flexible learning spaces where classrooms need to serve multiple purposes. Students need to be able to learn together in groups of varying sizes and there must be space for larger groups to do activities. CS OvertakingDoors cavity sliders are quality sliding door systems that can span large openings, effectively converting one large classroom into two smaller spaces. Incorporate even more flexibility by using multi-purpose door panels.

In this exclusive inner-city school, one large open plan classroom needed to be able to convert to two smaller learning zones. For this 7-meter opening, with so much of the wall space removed, some consideration needed to be given to providing a display surface to work with. Whiteboard doors were incorporated to be used as a teaching tool, while the clear glass enables light to flow through the space.

A moveable wall

CS Heavy Duty Track with custom door panel

This beautiful timber panel is actually a moveable wall in a library, made possible using CS Heavy Duty Track – a high quality heavy duty system capable of supporting doors up to 500kg. The panel is opened all the way up during the day and closed when separation of spaces is required. A vision panel set at eye height enables flow of light and allows staff to see who is in the room without disturbing anyone.