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Architectural Glass Panels for Pocket Doors

Bob shows the double pocket doors that separate the living and private spaces of the Miami condo. The wall between the living room and bedroom has been torn down, along with the closed closet spaces, recesses, and bathroom of the dated apartment. The new space is more loft-like, and the pocket doors will let the rooms function as one big space unless privacy is desired. The doors' glass panels are tempered art glass from Bendheim with a leaf pattern that allows light to enter the space, but obscures the view into the bedroom for privacy. The goal of the remodel and the new open floor plan was to bring light from the windows into the interior of the apartment. Bob looks at a number of glass options that were considered for the pocket doors, including a new version of etched glass, and laminated glass with Japanese rice paper embedded between the layers.

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Architectural Glass Panels for Pocket Doors

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" It's a double set of pocket doors which of course just you know tuck away into these pockets in the law. But one of the major change that we did here was to tear down the wall that was here that separated the living room from the bedroom that was only a little thirty inch door entering it. Now the bedroom and the living room are all one space and the light flows freely from one to the other. When we started out here we have this kind of dark each bedroom it was a big walk in closet nooks and crannies but very very dark space and now. The architect's idea was to bring all that daylight that comes in from the only two sources all the way deep into the apartment and by using the pocket doors. This is after all a getaway apartment almost like a studio and that is just one big space. You can have these open all the time unless you have company. And the interesting thing is that we did discover that the Bendheim company up in New York stocks and and and offers a variety of over. 2000 different types of glasses and this is a frosted glass with -- leaf pattern etched in it. Which gives you privacy and it gives you kind of an artistic touch to look at we haven't totally finished but. I wanted to show you that there are other options we considered this is called pyramid and it's glass that you saw very often."

" In 1950s and sixty's architectural work and it again gives you. Fair amount of privacy and then they've come up with this new satin tech glass which is an alternative to sandblasted glass. The big advantage with a stuff is that it's easy to maintain sandblasted glass can be a little bit difficult clean. And one of the favorite ones that I looked at is just called thread and what you got is real Japanese rice paper in this sandwiched between two pieces blasts."

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