Impress Your Guests and Increase The Entryway Appeal With Pivot Doors

Common exterior doors are the easy choice but if you really want to impress your guests and to customize your entryway you should look for alternatives. Sliding doors could be an option although they’re quite common too. So how about a door that doesn’t swing or slide open? We’re talking about pivot doors.

Hallway pivot door
Pivot doors allow a very smooth transition between the indoor and outdoor areas

Pivot doors are a dramatic and modern alternative to the common door designs. Apart from have a more unusual system, pivot doors are present other advantages. For example, they can be larger than the regular exterior doors.

Hallway pivot door
Most often, large pivot doors are made of glass and have metal frames
Hallway pivot door
A larger door is preferable at the entrance and this makes pivot doors a perfect alternative
Hallway pivot door
Although pivot doors can be very expensive, custom designs like this one are affordable

Also, they can be made out of metal, stone and materials which are too heavy to be used for regular swing doors. The fact that the doors are very heavy doesn’t interfere with their functionality. In fact, a large swing door would be very heavy and the changes it would malfunction are greater than with pivot doors which are held up from below.

Hallway pivot door
The door matches the glass walls perfectly and fits into the design
Hallway pivot door
Such an entry door is an innovative alternative to the common swing doors
Hallway pivot door
To maintain a modern design without sacrificing privacy, frosted glass was chosen

Usually, pivot doors are custom-made and this gives you more freedom when designing the entryway. Also, pivot doors are larger than the typical ones. The advantage is that you can customize them however you want and that there’s a larger range of materials to choose from.

Hallway pivot door
An elegant wooden pivot door design with glass details
Hallway pivot door
Usually, glass doors are chosen in order to allow views of the garden or backyard
Hallway pivot door
An interesting combination of glass walls and solid pivot door
Hallway pivot door
A similar combination of materials and textures plus frosted glass panels

The disadvantages are not numerous. The only one I can thing of now is the fact that, because pivot doors are held up from below, you can’t fit large objects through the door unless you take them apart. However, they don’t necessarily pivot in the center so you could very well avoid the situation. The price is not a big problem either as there are lots of affordable designs to choose from.

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