Increase the light within your property this summer with a glass pocket door

On the face of it, introducing natural light to a property might literally create the difference between night and day, but the potential benefits of natural light run much deeper than simple visual things. A property that is dark, dingy and moody is much less appealing than one that is bright, fresh and airy, and as such, a property that has good sources of natural light is likely to be far more desirable than one that doesn’t. This translates into adding more value to your property, but in everyday terms, natural light is hugely beneficial to your health and wellbeing, and you can achieve this simply through installing a glass pocket door.

How natural light benefits a property

• Bright – A property that is bright, fresh and airy is much more welcoming and inviting, and people will want to be there, whether it is a home or a workplace.
• Productivity – Natural light helps by proving motivation and energy, this makes a home or workplace a hub of activity and makes you more productive. This could be in terms of housekeeping and jobs around the house, home fitness or your normal working day. More and more people work from home in 2025 and providing natural light can boost your morale and your productivity. Translating this to a workplace provides obvious benefits too.
• Mood – A good source of natural light will automatically lift your mood, particularly first thing in the morning when you get up or arrive at work. Mental wellbeing is vastly improved by an invigorating source of natural light.
• Energy efficiency – Not using artificial light reduces your reliability on electricity, meaning your energy bills could start to reduce.
• Health – Too much exposure to artificial light can also start to impact on your general health. This can cause headaches, eye strain and dry eyes. It is also true that a prolonged lack of natural light and a reliance on artificial light can lead to depression. The complexities of this are increased if you are tied to a laptop all day.
• Value – Increasingly people see natural light as a big asset of a property and it is high on the list of features they want to see. If you are selling your home or leasing a commercial property, for example, people would immediately see more appeal in a property with good natural light. It will feel comfortable and inviting to them.

How to achieve natural light in a property with a pocket door

People achieve natural light in a property by making structural changes. This can be adding skylights, extending windows to make them bigger, or reducing the shade produced by external fences, trees and bushes. This may not always be possible financially or practically, for example if a fence or tree also provides privacy. The pocket door, therefore, is a very popular and cost-effective way to improve natural light in a property.

A pocket door improves natural light in two main ways:

• Obstruction – When opening a pocket door you slide it along an overhead rail and it disappears into a wall ‘pocket’. Because the door doesn’t encroach into a room it doesn’t create a barrier, which blocks the flow of natural light from a window in that room. Therefore, if you like to leave a door ajar in a room, a pocket door will cause less of an obstruction to natural light because it disappears from view and doesn’t block the natural light. In the summer months, when it is easier to leave doors open, pocket doors can let light flow between rooms and into corridors, entrance halls and landings. This idea can be maximised if you have the wall space for double pocket doors, perhaps leading between large open plan offices, or in a home, leading between a kitchen and dining room, or between a dining room and living room. This improves the flow of the property, makes it feel much bigger and provides flexible spaces. But most of all, it improves the natural light of the property.
• Glass pocket doors – The second way to improve natural light with pocket doors, is to install a glass pocket door. This provides all the space-saving benefits you would normally enjoy, but also lets light shine through and maximises the flow of natural light in a home or workplace. So if you have converted a room into a small home office, for example, a glass pocket door makes that room feel larger, airy and less claustrophobic. You are therefore more comfortable using that room for an extended period over the working day. You can even close the door and have peace and privacy, and still let natural light shine through. A satin opaque finish will provide some privacy while also letting light shine through it into adjacent spaces. This is also true for small offices and other rooms in a workplace, such as postal rooms, kitchens, storage rooms or server rooms.

Order your glass pocket door from the Pocket Door Shop

Glass pocket door systems can be made with bespoke designs to suit your interior design scheme and your own personal style, and this will still enable you to let natural light flow through a door to maximise the bright, fresh and inviting feeling that you want in a home or workplace. So check out the Pocket Door Shop range of pocket doors and glass pocket doors and order online today.