The craftsman Bill Bradley needed some unobtrusive and slick doors

With space at a premium in his RIBA award-winning eco houses project Bill Bradley, master craftsman at Talisman Manufacturing, needed internal doors that were unobtrusive and slick.
He chose Eclisse sliding doors as “they seemlessly disappear into the wall cavities and the glazed panels allow light to flood through the 40%-glass home – he said.

[London. The Eclisse single sliding door system in one pf the two eco houses’ kitchen. Photo by Talisman Manufacturing]

The houses, which were featured on the cult CH4 Grand Designs TV programme, have won numerous plaudits for their overall aesthetics and clever architecture. Bill is a real stickler for detail and his passion for quality products was something that particularly impressed Kevin McCloud.

Bill built two identical timber houses in South London. The houses are sustainable and green buildings in the heart of the metropolis, made of wood and glass. Downstairs there is a large living room connected by a glass walkway to a kitchen-dining room. In between sits a double height private courtyard, almost entirely enclosed and walled in by glass. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and two bathrooms, with each room benefiting from ninety degree angled roof windows.

It is here, in this detailed internal space, that Bill installed the Eclisse sliding door, fourteen systems. There are seven of them in each house, six upstairs in the doorway and one down in the kitchen.
In the kitchen, where even worktops have been made from recycled glass, the Eclisse Italian sliding doors became part of the room design. The sleek sliding doors were a huge success and a critical part of the internal scheme; traditional doors simply would not have worked due to the confined space restrictions of the upstairs gallery.

Sliding pocket door framework forms part of the stud wall and allows doors to slide effortlessly inside the walls. Compared to the conventional hinged doors, the sliding ones take up no living space whether designing new-build or refurbishing an old one.
The frame is made from top quality metal materials and components to give a long, trouble free life and the patented extractable track system can be removed at any time in the future without breaking into the wall.

On the other hand the sliding door systems do not undermine the final internal design. The Eclisse system uses an ingenious frame mounted, self-centering guide so there is no threshold to interrupt floor surfaces. Along with the metal frame finishing joinery kit is supplied, making the finished product into a beautiful and professionally finished sliding door. The jambs are made from a real wood tanganika walnut veneer that is unfinished and ready to accept a stain, paint or varnish.

Email: info@eclisse.co.uk