Best places to use pocket doors in your home
The pocket door has become one of the 21st century’s most popular features for combining innovation and functionality around the home. As we continue to develop ‘smart’ homes with digital features which have multiple uses with the aim of making our lives easier, pocket door systems fit in with this approach to provide a space-saving feature which looks great and opens up a whole new world of possibilities.
Many home improvement projects now focus on the use of a pocket door, as it enables you to create a new use for a room, to create multiple uses for one room or space, or to create the ability to have temporary spaces around the home. Here we have listed the many ways you can use a pocket door around the home, in addition to using a standard single pocket door simply to make a room bigger, without making any other physical or practical changes to the room.
A new addition to the family or two siblings growing up and sharing a room is no longer practical? These are very common scenarios, so dividing one large bedroom into two smaller bedrooms can only happen with a pocket door. You can use a pocket door to divide the rooms internally, or you could use unilateral pocket doors on the external side. Either way, the use of a pocket door is critical to creating space and making each room usable.
Although an en-suite bathroom is considered something of a luxury, a pocket door can make it a reality. By default you are dealing with a small space here, and a pocket door may be the only way you can fit a shower, toilet and sink into it.
In a similar way, bathrooms are typically quite small but a larger bathroom can sometimes be reduced in size so that other rooms can be created and accommodated. In such scenarios a pocket door makes this possible.
With home working becoming increasingly popular it is common for people to repurpose an existing room to accommodate a dedicated home office space. In some cases this room has to retain its original purpose, even if that purpose is under-utilised. So a home office may need to share a space with a guest bedroom or a kids’ playroom, for example. Using a pocket door you can maximise space and therefore maximise the amount of furniture you can fit in the room, and therefore you can accommodate both purposes.
Another popular way of fully utilising space, is to close off a section of a large bedroom and use it for storage. This could be a boiler cupboard or it could be used for storage, for bed linen or towels etc. A pocket door makes this possible because the space restrictions don’t allow for a traditional hinged door, and hence this becomes a much more efficient use of space in a home.
A space under the stairs or in a hallway may be redundant ‘dead’ space, unless you get your thinking cap on and use a pocket door. Then this tiny space could become a downstairs toilet, which transforms the layout and practicality of the home.
When people have a large kitchen it is a common space-utilisation practice to close a surplus section of this off with a stud wall to create a utility room. This is a room that doesn’t necessarily need to be heated, and can be useful for storage and generally tidying away ‘mess’, but the pocket door makes this a usable space where you can also locate items such as a freezer, dishwasher, drier or washing machine.
Double pocket doors are a great way to divide a kitchen and dining room to create a space which can be opened up at meal times or when entertaining, but which can be closed off at all other times.
In a similar way to above, double pocket doors are a common way to divide a dining room and living room, to open and close off space as and when you need it. This can create flow to a ground floor layout when lots of people are round, but provides separate and more private spaces as necessary also.
- Flexible open plan living
Many contemporary homes are now designed with an open plan ground floor and the use of pocket doors enables the whole layout to be flexible in a temporary sense. So as needed you can close off space for dining, home-working, reading and watching films etc, and at other times can open this space to present a friendly and welcoming communal, family space.
Order your pocket door system online at the Pocket Door Shop
Now you have read about the possible solutions to your home improvement dilemmas, you can order a pocket door system online at Pocket Door Shop, and put your ideas into action! Order on our website and receive free UK Mainland delivery.
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