Professional Window Installers in Sammamish, WA

Creating a Continuous Living Space An ideal indoor-outdoor setup should make your patio feel like an organic extension of your living room, dining room, kitchen or bedroom. Design features like flooring, ceiling and lighting fixtures can be closely matched so it feels like one contiguous room rather than two separate areas. Closely aligned design features combined with the most important indoor-outdoor element – patio doors – can convince the viewer’s subconscious that it’s seeing one big room instead of two separate spaces. Ideally you want doors that can virtually disappear when they’re open to create a wide, expansive space that eliminates the barriers between your inside room and your outside patio. This opening is great from a functionality standpoint as well, especially if you’re adding a backyard kitchen or living area. Two excellent door options for creating this effect are sliding stacing doors and bi-fold accordion doors. Sliding stacking doors slide on a rail like you’d find with most two-pane sliding glass doors. The rail can be deeper so you may have four or more panes that stack on top of each other as the door slides opens. This minimizes the amount of glass and door frame that’s still visible once the door is completely opened.