sliding glass whore.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 1:39PM 
While avoiding doing more drywall mud, I started searching for sliding glass doors to replace the one in my living room. Not only is it horrendously ugly (brown with a non-removable grid of lines making it resemble some kind of farmhouse fixture), the track hardware is beyond broken, so it's super hard to open and close, and easily jumps off the track.
I want to replace it with a basic silver aluminum-framed slider- minimal, slick, y'know. Of course everyone who walks in here says "YOU NEED FRENCH DOORS". Nnnnnoooo I don't. Ugly! French doors can stay in France, thankyouverymuch. They were clearly trying to tell us something when they stopped flying the Space Shuttle... the Space Age is OVER. But I won't be deterred.
Anyway, do you know how hard it is to find silver aluminum sliding glass doors?!? I sure didn't. Everything at Lowe's and Homeless Depot is either vinyl (thus brown or white) or some hideous wood with a grid of divided little windows. Yuck again. Searched all over Amazon, Yahoo shopping, etc. So far I found ONE place that makes them (they're called Arcadia. I did not try the Power Station), and they don't sell online and have no prices, so it could be $$$. And I eventually need two of them (one for the side, and one for the wretched bay window that I'm gonna remove in the back). The good news is they have a local distributor. The hunt continues. Why does everything I like have to be difficult?
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BTW, I sorta lied. There's a company called Fleetwood (no relation to Mac, or the car), but they're who you go to for your million-dollar home with entire sliding glass walls. They'll make you anything you like, but it will cost $15,000. Gulp.
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