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Every square foot matters in modern building design, yet traditional swing doors consume valuable floor area every time they open, creating a clearance zone unusable for storage, equipment or movement.
Serenity Sliding Door eliminates this limitation with its sliding doors that move along the wall, creating more usable space without altering a building's footprint.
“We take a door from swinging and slide it onto the wall, providing better use of the space,” says Bill Munafo, director of sales.
Serenity sliding door systems provide an additional 9 to 18 square feet of usable space at every opening, a significant advantage when construction costs continue to rise, and rooms must perform at maximum efficiency.
This value proposition has resonated strongly across markets, with more than 70,000 openings converted from swing to sliding doors.
Specializing exclusively in commercial sliding door systems, the Colorado-based manufacturer helps healthcare facilities, offices and hospitality environments enhance functionality, accessibility and user experience.
Because sliding doors are its sole focus, the company can respond quickly to customer needs. With more than ten sliding door systems, Serenity serves a range of commercial applications. Their portfolio includes standard space-saving systems, enhanced privacy solutions, sound-rated doors, and other specialty door configurations.
The Serenity Advantage
Healthcare represents the vast majority of Serenity’s work. Their flagship MedSlide system is widely used in exam rooms and patient-care environments.
Eliminating the floor area occupied by a swinging door, the system creates wider, unobstructed access points, allowing healthcare professionals to move carts, equipment and supplies more easily. In addition to space-savings, soft-closing hardware and concealed floor guides ensure smooth operation.
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We take a door from swinging and slide it onto the wall. We don't increase the existing space, but clients have better usage of that space.
The sound-attenuated MedSlide Plus and MedSlide Pro offer STC 26 and STC 35 acoustic ratings to help decrease sound transfer between spaces. They are incorporated with double sound seals and acoustic door bottoms that automatically engage when doors close. In healthcare environments, the combination helps improve privacy between adjacent patient rooms while supporting a quieter care setting.
"Our sliding door systems can do anything a swing door does,” says Mariah Williams, senior marketing coordinator.
Its sliding door systems support many of the hardware capabilities traditionally associated with swing doors, including electrification, automatic entry keypads and other access control technologies. All its products come with a two-year warranty.
Customization is a key differentiator. Serenity offers a range of finishes, door styles, glazing options and hardware configurations, including antimicrobial hardware.
From Specification to Installation
Serenity supports projects from the architectural stage through installation. Working closely with specifiers, it helps ensure products are specified in project plans. Through RIB SpecLink, a construction specification platform, and Acelab, a building product information platform, design professionals can easily access product information and technical resources. It also collaborates with distributors to ensure customers receive the correct products. Each system is shipped in its own box to simplify on-site logistics and installation.
The end-to-end approach is complemented by customer-focused service that includes faster lead times, comprehensive project submittals and a single point of contact throughout the project.
Serenity is also expanding its Factory Trained Installer Program, providing installers with hands-on training at its facility to support consistent installation quality. An easy-to-install system further streamlines project execution.
Customer feedback drives continuous product improvements, including enhanced durability, increased weight capacities and integrated track designs. A notable example is its third-generation soft-close technology, which incorporates a sweep that helps clean the track each time the door is used, improving performance and longevity.
Serenity believes sliding doors have reached a tipping point in commercial building design. Hospitality presents a significant opportunity for its adoption as hotels seek space-saving solutions for guestroom bathrooms and other interior applications.
Serenity Sliding Door converts underutilized door-clearance areas into usable floor space, helping organizations improve the efficiency of modern buildings.
Where Commercial Sliding Doors Earn Their Space
“Serenity Sliding Door focuses on sliding door systems and offers more than ten commercial configurations, including MedSlide for healthcare environments and MedSlide Pro with an STC 35 rating for greater acoustic control.”
A swing door rarely looks costly on a drawing. The problem becomes clearer later, when an exam room loses valuable chair clearance or an office layout has to work around the door’s swing path. For executives evaluating commercial sliding doors, opening and closing performance is only part of the decision. The greater value lies in whether the manufacturer can consistently turn recovered floor area into usable space without introducing privacy gaps or hardware issues that complicate coordination in the field.
Recovering space is the most visible benefit, but on a commercial project it has practical consequences. Healthcare facilities may have dozens of similar exam rooms, and removing the swing arc can give staff more room to work around patients and equipment. Hotels face a different space constraint, particularly when a bathroom door takes up room that already feels limited to the guest. Commercial suppliers need to understand these pressures. The decision is shaped by real estate constraints, renovation requirements and the way people move through the space, not simply by a preference for one type of door.
Acoustic performance becomes especially important in patient rooms, consultation areas, administrative offices and spaces close to staff work areas. Doors need to limit speech transfer enough to meet privacy expectations while still closing softly and working with the hardware used throughout the building. Access control, locks, automatic entry and closer operation also need to integrate naturally with the system rather than being treated as special additions. When they do not, the design team is left to resolve the added complexity.
The door itself is only one part of a successful specification. Commercial projects pass through owners, architects, distributors and installers, and every handoff creates an opportunity for components to be ordered incorrectly or substitutions to appear late in the project. Retrofit work leaves even less room for error because occupied facilities cannot easily accommodate repeated measurements or delays caused by hardware changes. Manufacturers can reduce that risk by making systems straightforward to specify and packaging shipments in a way that minimizes confusion on site. Installation support is most useful when it catches small issues before they affect the schedule. Lead time matters too, although clear coordination becomes even more important on projects involving hundreds of openings.
Customization has value when it works cleanly within the project. Color choices, aluminum options, sound ratings and hardware compatibility mean little if they come at the expense of predictable manufacturing and service. This is where a supplier focused specifically on sliding doors can have an advantage. Details can be adapted to the opening without leaving installers to improvise unnecessarily in the field.
Serenity Sliding Door brings these capabilities together for projects where usable space and healthcare privacy carry particular weight. The company focuses on sliding door systems and offers more than ten commercial configurations, including MedSlide for healthcare environments and MedSlide Pro with an STC 35 rating for greater acoustic control. Its systems accommodate customization, soft-close performance, sound control and access control integration. Specification support, a single point of contact, disciplined lead times and a factory-trained installer program further address the coordination issues that can determine how smoothly a door package moves from specification to installation.
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