Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

If you’re trying to hide a closet or laundry area, you don’t always have a lot of room for installing a full-fledged door. There just isn’t space to open anything inward or outward. In some cases pocket doors can work, since they slide into the wall when open, but if you want to close off an area without futzing around in the walls, then an accordion door could be a solution.

You may have memories of hideous accordion doors from the 70s. (In a house I lived in as a kid, we had a home office separated from the living area with a tacky off-white accordion door made out of… uhm, I’m not sure what it was made out of. Suffice it to say, we left it pushed open most of the time, so no one would notice it.)

Today, though, you can get custom wood and vinyl accordion doors that aren’t quite as hideous as the ones we remember from our parents’ homes. At a company called WoodFold, you can even get decorative inserts of textured glass or acrylic to add interest to these folding doors.