The door not only helps family members travel conveniently, but according to feng shui, this is also a place to ensure ventilation for the house, helping the homeowner have more luck and luck when placed in the right direction.
In order for aluminum and glass doors to be beautiful, durable and feng shui, you need to know the important notes that HTC Window has compiled through the article below!
1. Choose aluminum and glass door materials
As is known, aluminum and glass doors are composed of 3 parts: aluminum frame, glass and accessories.
Aluminum frame part
The aluminum frame helps to enclose and support the glass, ensuring that the door is sturdy and resistant to impact.
Normally, the aluminum frame will be composed of many loose aluminum bars. The aluminum bars will be pre-shaped with an internal hollow space structure. Inside the aluminum bar, there are 3 ribs running vertically and staggered to help increase the bearing capacity. The inside is also chrome-plated to enhance hardness.
When choosing aluminum and glass doors, you need to choose thick aluminum, ensuring a standard thickness of 1.4mm to 2mm, with full gloss brightness and labeling. Some aluminum brands that you can refer to are Xingfa Aluminum, Viet France, PMI, TungShin,…
Glass section
Glass plays a huge role in the entire door, not only bringing aesthetic value but also helping to ensure the safety of the house thanks to its good impact resistance.
When choosing glass, you should choose safety laminated glass or tempered glass, the price will be higher than ordinary glass, but the bearing capacity is 3-4 times better than normal glass when the same thickness and size. Commonly used glass thicknesses are equivalent to 6.38mm to 21mm.
These glasses are tempered in extremely high temperatures, so they are difficult to break, and when broken, they also break into small pieces, which are not sharp and do not cause damage to the user.
Accessory system
Only when there are accessories can the door be fully assembled and operate smoothly. The basic set of door accessories will include:
- Door Handles
- Door lock body
- Lock Core
- Motion Bar
- Lugs
- Locking mouth
- Cushion
- Hinge
- Fasteners,…
In addition, with each type of door, there are different accessories such as hanging wheels, guide wheels, rail systems, negative latches, multi-point latches,…
You need to check whether the door has all the accessories, whether it is smooth when opening and closing or making a noise,…
Gasket System
This is also an accessory of aluminum and glass doors but plays a more important role. This is the part that determines the safety and quality of the entire door system. That is to create tightness, sturdiness, improve elasticity, help the door limit collision between aluminum bars when opening and closing,…
When choosing a gasket, you need to choose a quality type that ensures the following factors:
- Lightweight, low density
- Not corroded by chemicals
- Low-temperature flexibility
- No impact due to weather impacts
- Good insulation,…
2. Choose the design of aluminum and glass doors
The design of aluminum and glass doors will determine the beauty and ugliness of the entire house. Doorways usually take up quite a lot of space, so when choosing a model, you need to choose the right size and style, first of all, the style.
On the market today, there are many door designs such as:
- Sliding door samples, revolving door models, knock-down door models, folding doors, fixed glass walls…
- Aluminum door models with 1 wing, 2 wings, 3 wings, 4 wings.
- Transparent glass door model, cell divider door model, glass door model with decorative spokes
- Panorama super large aluminum and glass door model…
You need to choose a door design that suits your personal preferences and, importantly, matches the overall style and architecture of your home. Aluminum and glass doors are often suitable for use in homes with modern, minimalist or neoclassical styles. With classic-style houses, when using aluminum and glass doors, it will be quite “out of line”, so you need to be very careful!
3. Choose the size of the aluminum and glass doors
Next is to choose the size of the aluminum and glass doors. The door should not be too big nor too small compared to the room. Here are a few suggestions on door sizes for each location that you can refer to:
*The main door is on the ground floor or upstairs
- Height: 2.30 – 2.52 – 2.72 – 2.92 (meters)
- Width: 1.46 – 1.62 – 1.90 – 2.32 – 2.46 – 2.92 – 3.12 – 3.32 – 3.72 – 4.12 – 4.56 – 4.80 (meters)
*1-wing door, 2-wing door, tailgate or side door
- Height: 2.10 – 2.30 – 2.52 – 2.72 (meters)
- Width: 0.81 – 1.07 – 1.25 – 1.46 – 1.90 – 2.12 (meters)
*Room door (this door usually has no wings, can be covered with thin curtains, hanging curtains)
- Height: 1.90 – 2.10 – 2.12 (meters)
- Width: 0.80 – 1.06 – 1.22 (meters)
*Homeowner’s bedroom door
- Height: 1.90 – 2.10 – 2.30 (meters)
- Width: 0.82 – 1.04 – 1.24 (meters)
*The door to the bedroom of a child of school age
- Height: 1.90 – 2.10 – 2.30 (meters)
- Width: 0.82 – 1.06 – 1.26 (meters)
*Bathroom and toilet doors
- Height: 1.90 – 2.10 – 2.30 (meters)
- Width: 0.68 – 0.82 – 1.02 (meters)
*My child’s room has a job and the living room
- Height: 1.90 – 2.10 – 2.30 (meters)
- Width: 0.85 – 1.05 – 1.2 (meters)
*Garage doors and warehouse doors:
The size should correspond to the size of the main door on the ground floor but less than one step above the Ban hole yard.
4. Choose the color of the aluminum glass door
The color of the doors is also very important. First, it must be suitable for the whole house and then it must be suitable for the homeowner and the direction of the door.
Limit with the main door:
- Black will create good feng shui for the door facing north
- Yellow is good for the Northeast and Southwest doors
- Green in front of the door in the East and Southeast
- The metallic color is more towards the West Gate and the Northwest Gate
- The red color will be in harmony with the south-facing gate
5. Notes when designing aluminum and glass doors according to feng shui
In addition, you can update more notes when designing aluminum and glass doors according to feng shui so that your fortune is always prosperous!
- If the house has a yard, the center of the outer door (gate) and the main door are not connected in a straight line, it should be arranged in a different way, according to the principle of “joy and rejoicing”, the back door should not be larger than the front door, the kitchen door should not be straight with the furnace mouth, the toilet door should not open directly into the kitchen. Among the types of doors, the main door (also the direction of the house) is the most important. Avoid door obstructions.
- A door at the end of a long corridor will make the air flow move quickly, which will endanger the health of family members or make them feel restless and affect their nerves, easily make them angry, so you can avoid it!
Above is useful and interesting knowledge when installing aluminum and glass doors, hope you can apply it to your upcoming project!