5 Compelling Reasons To Install Patio Doors In Your Home

1. Patio door offer easy access to the outdoors

Key Benefits:

• Panoramic visibility: Floor-to-ceiling glass designs visually expand spaces, making compact homes feel airy and connected to nature.

• Natural light optimization: Increase daylight penetration by 60+%, reducing daytime lighting costs.

• Mental wellness boost: Studies show 20 minutes of daily exposure to natural views through patio doors lowers stress hormones by 14%.

Lifestyle Scenario: Practice morning yoga with fresh airflow, work at a sunlit desk overlooking your garden, or host outdoor movie nights using the glass surface as a projection screen.

2. Patio doors can lower energy bills

• With so much glass, many people are afraid that a patio door won’t be energy efficient or keep their home comfortable. Available Low E coatings, gas fills, and spacer systems are designed to provide maximum efficiency and consistent temperatures. 

• Sliding patio doors reduce air conditioning costs.

• The natural efficacy of a good breeze cool your home in lieu of expensive and wasteful air conditioning. A sliding patio door installed with a screen can let all the coolness of nature in while keeping bugs or other pests out. Further, manufacturing of window glass has come leaps and bounds over the past few years, so the glass in your sliding door can be made to cool your home incredibly well: on hot days, the sun’s warm rays won’t radiate through and bake you, as they may have once with outdated windowpane glass.

3. You save floor space (and maximize house space) with a patio door

Hosting Advantages:

• French doors to a patio are admittedly beautiful, but you’d be surprised how much more space is taken up by a door that has to swing open and closed (especially if there are two doors!). Relying on a sliding patio door requires no floor space at all, but still offers every bit of “openness” and airiness that the French door offers (if not more so). You also save yourself wall space.

• Think about opening and closing a French door: when the doors are opened, the walls adjacent to the door are going to be covered by the doors themselves. Forget about being able to push bookshelves, decorative tables, or chairs up against those walls. But with the sliding patio door, the only wall space that’s taken up is the space exactly where your door is installed: you don’t lose any other real estate to this convenient outdoor access-point.

• Sliding patio doors also offer a very convenient and wide home access point. If your home does not have double doors elsewhere, you could be in trouble: getting large couches, beds, or other inconvenient pieces of furniture into the home might be impossible. That’s where the sliding patio door is a handy secret weapon.

• Sliding glass doors are typically wider than the average door, and many have multiple panes of glass (some with three or four!), so you’re able to slide as many open as you desire and wedge that monster couch into your home exactly where you need it to be. From a safety perspective, it’s also nice to have sliding glass doors. They’re easy to use and easy to get in and out of, offering an alternative escape route if (for whatever reason), you need to exit the house quickly.