Our kitchen had a sliding glass door to the backyard. We pushed the backwall of the house 14 feet which put our kitchen in the middle of the house and my crop room behind the kitchen. There were many debates in the beginning about what to do about the entrance way to the crop room from the kitchen. It had to have a door because my evening workshops go until 11 pm at night and I knew that Ed and my Dad would want to be able to shut out all the chatter.The original plan was to have a french door but I couldn't decide which way the doors should open. If they opened into the kitchen, it would be inconvenient if we had dinner in the crop room -- you'd have to go around the french door to get to the store or any of the counters. If they opened into the crop room, chances are that a customer of mine would get hit during a workshop.
The solution was a pocket door.
It's actually an odd kind of hybrid. There is a french door on the left that opens up against the wall in the crop room. But even then, it isn't a traditional french door -- it will latch into the ceiling (I believe) so the design actually accounts for it to probably be closed most of the time. The right side is actually a pocket door. In order to make the pocket work with our existing wall, they actually built another wall alongside the wall that was already there -- this way the pocket could slide into the new wall while the wall that had all the studs supporting our kitchen cabinets could remain.The glass panes of the doors are actually covered with some sort of protective seal while they are still painting but it will eventually be clear glass. This will let more light into the kitchen when the doors are closed although I think that for the most part the doors will remain open...except during my "noisy" workshops :-)
I love my door!
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1 comment:
What a fantastic solution! Congratulations!
-LM
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