WINDOWS | CASE STUDY
TRANSFORMING
FAMILY LIVING
WITH BIFOLDS
Cherrybrook home undergoes a
stylish retrofit using Carinya
bifold doors.
A
Sydney family has found the ultimate
way to bring the outdoors inside
and make indoor areas brighter by
retrofitting their Cherrybrook home with
stylish Carinya bifold doors. In just six short
weeks, a previously underused outdoor area
has become the favourite living space for the
family of six.
“It’s made a huge difference to how we live,”
says owner, Tamara. “Sydney’s climate is ideal
for indoor-outdoor living and now we’ve got
the perfect space to take advantage of it.”
Before the renovation, the outdoor dining
area was surrounded by a brick wall on
one side, and a sliding door with dense
security mesh on the other. These elements
effectively isolated the outdoor area from
the main kitchen and living room and
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reduced how much daylight reached the
indoor areas.
The first step was to find an option which
would best integrate the indoor and outdoor
living areas, brighten up the interior, all the
while being mindful of costs. The solution:
add bifold doors to both sides. “I’ve always
liked bifold doors, but I wasn’t sure if they
were right for our space,” says Tamara.
Her first concern was whether such doors
needed any special structural overh ead
support. If they did, it would have meant
extra cost as well as extra time to complete.
Luckily Carinya had a product specifically
designed with such retrofits in mind. The
bottom rolling bifold system has no need for
a structural overhead beam as the weight
is transferred to the bottom of the door.