These 8 Fluted Glass Ideas Will Make Your Home Extra Stylish

From doors to windows to cabinets, here’s how you can incorporate fluted glass into your home.

Call it what you like, but ribbed/reeded/fluted glass is still a popular material in 2025 – not just for aesthetic reasons, but also practical ones.

On one hand, fluted glass can be easily incorporated into built-ins and structures as a subtle, stylish accent. On the other, it’s the perfect solution to privacy as well as natural light concerns in residential interior design.

So, if you’re looking for a classy and functional design material for your home (or a variety of ways to use fluted glass), keep scrolling!

1. Use fluted glass sliding doors to conceal a messy service yard

By integrating fluted glass panels into the service yard’s sliding doors, the owner of this resale flat in Jurong West now has a way to hide any hanging laundry from plain sight – but without compromising on the flow of natural lighting from the yard into the adjacent kitchen.

2. Create a fluted glass door between a bedroom and living room for privacy

Instead of regular glass doors or a wall, the homeowner of this 2-room BTO in Sengkang opted for an arched reeded glass panel that functions as the door between the bedroom and living room.

This way, she’s able to get ample natural light streaming between the two rooms, without worrying about guests peeking into her bedroom when she has them over.

3. Integrate fluted glass into a semi-open kitchen’s windows and doors

The kitchen folding screen of this Canberra HDB flat that takes inspiration from mid-century modern design features fluted glass as a call-back to homes from the 50s and 60s.

From a practical standpoint, the glass panels also ensure that the kitchen and dining area are sufficiently lit while keeping any noise, smell and grease out of the flat’s communal areas.

4. Consider using a fluted glass shower door or screen

Because of its textured, sleek look, a fluted glass bathroom door makes for an on-point accent in the bathroom of this wabi sabi-style home in Ang Mo Kio.

A fluted glass panel can also work wonderfully as a stylish shower screen that maintains privacy!

5. Install fluted glass inlays within your front door and window frames

Thanks to its ability to partially obscure what’s behind it, ribbed glass is a handy material for creating bespoke privacy screens – which is especially useful if you live in a corridor unit.

The homeowner of this bachelor pad did just that, using fluted glass panels for his front door and windows along the block’s common corridor. Aside from maintaining privacy,

6. Separate your bedroom and wardrobe with a fluted glass partition

The use of fluted glass extends to both the master bedroom and walk-in wardrobe/study of this cosy contemporary home.

Aside from neatly segregating the sleeping area and the wardrobe, it functions as a half-height privacy barrier that obscures the view while preventing the narrow area from feeling too cramped.

7. Conceal clutter with fluted glass cabinet doors

When used in conjunction with cabinetry, fluted glass offers a way to create an open look but without the same level of visual clutter that clear glass creates.

This isn’t limited to wardrobes, by the way – it can also be used for kitchen cabinets, as you can see!

8. Use foldable/accordion fluted glass doors for a mixed-use home office

Not since the rise of work-from-home culture have home offices been so important – which is why you should take a page from this maisonette and outfit your work spaces with fluted glass privacy doors.

It’s not just a means of giving you the flexibility to separate or merge the space with your communal area; on top of that, the fluted texture obscures your view from any distractions outside the space, thus allowing you to zero in on your work with laser focus.

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