Do you like your Patio doors or wish you had them.

[Sandp08]

Hi everyone, I am new to this so please be gentle with me. We are building a very small kitchen extension on the back of our house and can't decide whether to install double patio doors or a single door with a small window.
Does anyone hate their double doors with their lack of privacy? Do they make the room colder? This all sounds daft I know, given the trend to make house and garden as one, but i've never had them. Hubby prefers a single door as we will have a small table which will obscure part of the double doors so he prefers the neatness of a wall. There will also be a 120cm window attached ie no brick pillar. Any advice, opinions and experience welcome. Thanks in advance

do a search for slide and pivot doors. like bifiolds but better suited to smaller spaces. only have to open one door at a time. open inward or outward.

pm me if you want more info. don't want to seem like I'm plugging the company.

In my old house I went from a single door to French doors and loved the added light it gave, although it did heat of the kitchen in summer! I didn't mind the loss of privacy, but the neighbours with a view into my kitchen were uni students who changed over every year or so and I didn't care what they made of a middle aged woman in her dressing gown. If they'd been my more mature settled neighbours then I probably wouldn't have done it to be honest as it made my lounge visible also, which meant that evenings in PJ's on the sofa were not a strictly private affair. In my new house the arrangement is an old single door, but the kitchen is too small for a table anyway and the dining room has sliding glass doors so I wouldn't change anything.

Thank you all so much for your input, I will try and respond to you all but please forgive me if I miss any points.
The vertical bar is unavoidable in the free software i'm using. It's quite frustrating, I can't even shut the doors lol. The room is East facing so will have sun in the morning - lovely for brekkie but shade in the afternoon/evening. The architect gas assured me that light will not be an issue either way as we will also have an 80cm window on the south wall - I LOVE light too .
Yes I could turn the table and have the chairs facing the wall but i'm not sure I would like that so will see when it is built. Ideally i'd like the either or option. We'd also like to have 4 chairs for when the grandchildren arrive (1st one due in July ) and for informal entertaining.
I have enquired at 2 window showrooms and neither one uses hinge locks and only one could/would supply laminated glass. I am a bit of a worry wart so would like any security available.
Our lounge will slso be visible through these doors but I was planning to use either blinds on tge doors or curtains (opinions welcome), we also have the option of curtains at the doors leading into the kitchen so PJ days should still be an option.
The slide and pivot doors look interesting but would we be able to have an independently opening door with only 2 doors? I may give tgem a call tomorrow.

Does anyone else have the doors attached to the window without a brick column? Is it stable enough or a bit wibbly wobbly? We could have a 1 brick width column if we move the door over a bit or make the window a bit smaller.
There's so much to consider, I'm dreading the next few months.

Excuse the typos - I blame my fat fingers lol

I really want French doors leading into my garden from my kitchen.

I think my kitchen is poorly designed and could have been made more of.

Role on that lottery win.

Good luck Gloria. I've waited 23 years for this

Sandp08

if the doors are wooden, you can very easily add locking bolts.

With plastic, more difficult, but some are available.

Definitely the double doors. The single door looks miserly and horrid!

Definitely the double doors

We have bifold doors in our kitchen, with a table in front, similar to your picture. I like the doors as it lets in lots of light, the room is south west facing, and can be quite dark in there. I used to call my kitchen 'the cave' when it was a door and window, now we have lots of light and I love it. And its much warmer that it used to be, no draughts from the bifolds.

We've just had french doors fitted in our lounge whch open out to the lovely new patio & garden( which is fenced high all the way around so completely private to neighbours etc)- looks great & glad we got them- def go for french doors !

Thank you all so much for your opinions. We've decided to go for French doors ?? now we just need to go through the planning permission and hope our neighbour agrees to us using her wall as a party wall she is understandably nervous.

Do double. They let in so much light and a feeling of 'space' that can be deceiving in a good way.

The only reason I wouldn't would be if it compromised too much on storage/work surfaces etc

In a large enough room it would be a bonus for me.

Have you thought about making the windows full height ie taking out the top row of bricks? Let's in lots more light. If you are going for party wall consent then I'd really think about this too.

I think they are going to be full height it's just the way the free planner illustrates it. I'm Sure the architects drawings are full height but I will check