5 creative ways to use glass pocket doors in your home decor
The glass pocket door retains the main qualities of the standard pocket door; creating space in a room to open up a world of opportunities for transforming a room, creating a new room or giving a room multiple purposes. But the glass element of this type of pocket door adds a new dimension, in that the glass enables light to flow through it, offering further opportunities to make small spaces less claustrophobic, and hence, more usable. This is the case in many different scenarios, which enables you to transform the home and be innovative and creative with how you utilise that most precious of domestic commodities; space.
Space is at a premium in some homes and you have to be creative in how you find it, and the pocket door is a key to that. In other homes it is common to waste space, and to have huge areas that are underutilised. The glass pocket door is a solution for creating space, but the important element is that you know how to use it, and here we have outlined five different ways you can use glass pocket doors in a way that suits your home and brings practical and aesthetic qualities.
A bathroom door with privacy
An en-suite bathroom door is slightly different to a general bathroom door, in terms of privacy, because it is an off-shoot of a bedroom and hence it is generally only the occupants of the bedroom who are going to see it and use it, while a general bathroom door is in view of the whole house and can even be used by visitors. So the privacy control of an en-suite bathroom door doesn’t need to be as strict as a general bathroom door. Either way, you can use a glass pocket door with a satin opaque finish and a sandblasted line design to have the appropriate level of privacy. En-suite bathrooms are typically quite small and are an example of where the pocket door could be the key to making it possible, space-wise. But having what is generally known as ‘smoked glass’ is a way of enabling light flow through the door, but maintaining privacy. The design of the sandblasted lines can also create a classy and elegant effect for your door.
A child’s bedroom
When a child moves into a new bedroom they generally want to stamp it with their own identity straight away. This could be putting their posters back up or a name on the outside of the door, but a glass pocket door delivers other opportunities too. Again, the pocket door could have been central in creating the new bedroom, as it is very common to see a pocket door being used to divide one larger bedroom into two smaller ones. The glass pocket door could be essential in making the room comfortable and usable, by creating a more open and spacey feeling, but the child can make it their own by choosing a design they like for the door. Our range of sandblasted patterns, some with coloured inserts also, enable the child to choose a pattern or design themselves. We can even produce bespoke designs which carry the child’s name etched colourfully into the glass, and we can provide one side of the door as a mirror, something else that is vital in a child’s bedroom and helps to make a small bedroom feel bigger and less stuffy.
Separating a kitchen and dining room
On most evenings during the week we want to prepare food quickly and the family might sit informally around the kitchen table, or they might want an evening meal at different times as they come in from work, college or school, and hence end up eating tea on their knees in front of the TV. On such occasions, the double glass pocket doors you have installed to divide the kitchen and dining room can remain closed. But on the weekend, when we’re entertaining friends or hosting a large family Sunday lunch, the glass pocket doors can be opened up to link the two rooms and create a better flow to the house. These double glass pocket doors are a prominent and striking feature of the home and bring a touch of style and class to an open plan layout.
Making a small home office usable
Your work patterns have changed and you can now work more regularly from home, and this suits you perfectly, except that you don’t have a home office and working in the kitchen is becoming a pain. The glass pocket door can create the space to make a home office possible, even if it is sharing as a guest bedroom or a kids’ playroom ‘out of hours’. And furthermore, the way a glass pocket door optimises the natural light in a room, this makes the office space much more comfortable, particularly if you are in there all day.
Linking a corridor from a living room
If you order a glass pocket door through the Pocket Door Shop, you have the option of choosing the glass to be a solid colour, which still lets light shine through, but in a specific colour. This means you can match the colour of the door to your home interior design scheme, or at least make the door a subtle shade lighter or darker, to create a stunning, integrated effect.
Check out the Pocket Door Shop range of glass pocket doors and the options for making these a bespoke product and order online today to make your home classy, practical and appealing.
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