Black Frame Sliding Doors: loved by architects
Black frames: Classic architectural style
Black frame sliding doors are perfect for those seeking a strong architectural style, bringing a dramatic element and contrast to any exterior. Internally, black frames create a bold high-contrast statement, a picture frame for external views. They can also act as a focal point, drawing the eye and adding depth to the space.
Black is a neutral colour that can blend with any colour palette, making sliding doors in black a highly versatile option for your project – minimalist, rustic or industrial. Black frames complement the warmth of wood, metallic finishes, natural stone and poured concrete, allowing for a wide range of design possibilities.
Black aluminium doors and windows: C20 architectural heritage
In the early twentieth century black steel windows were developed by the Crittall company in the UK. They had strong, slim glazing bars that allowed allow more light to a building’s interior than traditional wooden frames. Initially designed for factories, they soon became popular for residential properties. With a black galvanised all-weather coating, Crittall doors and windows spread globally to the USA and Europe, and they’re still in production today.
You can have high performance aluminium windows with the look of Crittall’s steel heritage black glazing bars. ODC Glass Metro offers a complete range of retro glazing bars to capture this look for your project.
ODC Metro black glazing bars
Metro offers a heritage, Crittall or retro look with all the versatility and high technical performance of aluminium – thses black glazing bars can be added to many bespoke glazing projects, particularly glass extensions and structures for period homes.
A semi-detached Victorian home is transformed by an extension featuring Metro’s black glazing bars
Black frame sliding doors never out of fashion
Perfect for an industrial, heritage look or art-deco style, aluminium black framed windows and doors were made popular by German and American architects in the post-war period.
Renowned Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius described his ideal home as one ‘full of bright daylight and sunshine, alterable, time-saving, economical and useful in the last degree to its occupants whose life functions it is intended to serve.”
His Gropius House features slimline black framed windows and doors to maximise views of the landscape beyond. It’s an architectural style still referenced and emulated by many talented architects today.
Three Beautiful houses within landscapes
These recent ODC Glass projects are very much part of their landscapes, with indoor-outdoor spaces that accentuate relationships between the structure and site. Trees, shrubs and hard landscaping are positioned to connect the buildings to nature.
Black is definitely back forthese homeowners wanting to capture the glamour and style of modernist architecture. Their homes exemplify how black windows and doors define a house with style and panache.
Californian pavilion features black framed doors
Inspired by the Californian pavilion architectural style, the owners have built a long, slender glass house near Cornwall’s wild Atlantic coast. In a sheltered valley full of trees and birdsong, this elegant modernist home offers a secluded haven, enveloped by nature. Black framed glazing is a dramatic counterpoint to its grey slate and stunning gold external finishes.
Bauhaus home with black sliding doors looks out on Dorset coast
Slim-framed black aluminium sliding doors and fixed glazed panels frame the mesmerising views from this new Bauhaus-inspired home on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. Its generous terrace and patio areas are effortlessly connected by sliding door systems to create spectacular inside/outside living space.
Black frame sliding doors, white render, stone finishes for new home
ODC collaborated with NDM Architects to design bespoke glazing for this new home in the Dorset hills.
George Edmonds, architect at NDM said, ‘The striking black framed glazing helps to contrast against the white render and neutral tones of the stone, creating a bold, contemporary object in the landscape. Our clients were blown away with the advice and service from ODC and couldn’t be happier with the finished product.’
Black is a standard finish – no extra cost
ODC Glass offers sliding and bifold doors and a full range of fixed and casement windows in slimline aluminium black frames as standard. They have the high performance weather insulation and thermal benefits of all our premium glazing products.
With a blend of aesthetic appeal and practical benefits that can enhance any space, black frame sliding doors are an exciting, versatile, and functional choice for your extension or new build project. Thinking they might suit your project? We’d love to hear more!
