Sliding Base Doors
No swing room required
The doors slide rather than swing. Behind a boutique till there is often less than a metre of standing room, and a hinged door in that space either hits the wall or hits the person working there.
Boutique lane · sliding base doors · bright colour
A bright blue L-shaped counter with dark trim and sliding doors along the base. It is a boutique lane rather than a supermarket one — the storage is closed, and the colour is the point.
Studio angles on white. The sliding doors, the dark trim, the corner and the stainless top are photographed below.
A supermarket lane is open underneath because staff need to reach stock fast. A boutique counter is the opposite: the shopper stands close to it, the space behind is small, and anything visible under the counter is visible for the whole transaction. So this build closes the base with sliding doors, which take no swing room in a tight position and keep everything behind them out of sight.
It is finished in a bright blue with dark trim on the top edge and the plinth, and it turns a corner so it fits the small L-shaped space most boutique tills end up in. Everything is plastic powder coated to any RAL or PANTONE reference, so the blue here is one example rather than the specification.
A bright blue L-shaped counter with dark trim and sliding doors along the base. It is a boutique lane rather than a supermarket one — the storage is closed, and the colour is the point.
Supermarkets, convenience stores, chain retail and speciality stores. Tell us the store format and the floor area and the specification comes back written against them.
Sliding doors on a counter base are an unusual choice and a deliberate one, which is what the first two close-ups are about.
No swing room required
The doors slide rather than swing. Behind a boutique till there is often less than a metre of standing room, and a hinged door in that space either hits the wall or hits the person working there.
Edge and plinth
Dark trim caps the top edge and repeats at the plinth. Between the two lines it frames the colour, which is what stops a brightly coloured counter reading as a painted box.
One carcase, two legs
The counter turns in one carcase. On a footprint this small the corner is a large fraction of the whole fixture, so it is built rather than assembled from two units.
Pressed top, 850 mm
The top is left as plain stainless. On a boutique counter it is also the surface goods are wrapped on, so it stays a working material rather than being coloured to match.
Every item on this page is made to order. Send a floor plan, a hand sketch or a photograph of a fixture you like, and we quote against it.
Store fixtures are light for their size, so a container fills up on volume long before it fills up on weight. What decides your freight is not what one unit weighs — it is what shape the goods are in when they go through the container door. Everything we build leaves in one of three shapes.
Shelving bays, produce islands and bulk cabinets travel as panels — uprights, shelves, back panels and plinths, strapped flat with bubble wrap on every component. They are built up on the shop floor, so the packing list and the assembly drawings travel with the goods.
Trolleys slide into one another and baskets stack. Past the first unit, each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length, so the shipped volume ends up a fraction of what the unit count suggests.
A checkout lane is welded, coated and fitted out as one piece, so it is crated whole with padding on the steel. Nothing waits to be assembled at the store beyond levelling it into the lane, and the crate is the counter plus a margin.
This modelA checkout lane ships assembled, so the crate is the counter plus a margin and the length you order is the length that loads. That is the expensive end of the freight scale, which is why a counter order is usually put on the same container as flat packed shelving and nested trolleys rather than shipped on its own. The loading plan comes back with your quotation.
A checkout lane almost never arrives alone. These three categories share the front of the store with it, and putting them on one order is what lets a single colour reference run across the whole front, because it becomes one batch of coating rather than three.
The trolley bay sits within a few metres of the lane, and the lane length has to leave room for a loaded trolley to turn out of it.
See shopping carts and basketsThe 1000 mm promotion square is what fills the queue side of a lane, and it is the cheapest impulse position in the store.
See promotional display tablesThe bays a shopper faces while queuing carry the same colour and board tone as the lane itself.
See shelving baysHow many of each a store needs is a floor area question rather than a product question, and it is answered store by store on the supermarket layout design page.
Send the standing room behind the till — that is what decides sliding versus hinged.
Tell us how much standing room there is behind the till position. Under about a metre, sliding doors are not a preference but a requirement, and that changes the base entirely.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your layout and it is answered alongside the quotation.
Because of the standing room behind a boutique till. Under about a metre, a hinged door either hits the wall or hits the person working there, and sliding doors need none of that space. On a wider position hinged doors are fine and cheaper.
Any RAL or PANTONE reference. The blue photographed is one example rather than the product, and the same reference is held across every category on the order so the counter matches your fixtures.
No, and it is not meant to be. There is no packing bay and no belt: it is a boutique, pharmacy or speciality store counter. If you need throughput rather than presentation, look at the belt lane instead.
Whatever you need there. The interior is fitted with shelves or dividers against what you actually store at the till, which is why it is drawn against your till area rather than quoted as a fixed arrangement.
