we put a pocket door on our MB.
You can use any door as a pocket door. So we just used the same doors we put in the rest of the house.
You can get ones that lock.

If you decide to go this route, just get the GOOD lock hardware. I've used powder rooms with the little plastic hooks, and they always feel so insecure!

I don't know about the lock thing, but I asked the pocket door in a bathroom question a couple of weeks ago, and mostly everyone said it was a fine thing to do. We're putting one in the family bath to provide some privacy between sink and tub/toilet for our daughters. DH & GC are giving me a heck of a time -- they don't want to do it, but since neither has given me a good reason not to, I'm putting my foot down. We'll see how it goes.

We have one in our current powder room, and we love it! It is solid core, 6-panel oak, with all metal hardware. Have had no problems with it whatsoever....a great space saver.
We will be getting 2 in our new build (one between kitchen and laundry room, and for the upstairs bathroom).

I like pocket doors but here is something else to think about. Especially for people who don't like them (my DH for example)it seems to be beyond them to open and close them. Sort of like some people don't seem capable of putting a new roll of toilet tissue in the holder (DH for example). Thus, if you have a powder room that is potentially in view of a room or hallway that gets a lot of use you may be subjected to views that will be undesirable because of those types of people (DH for example) to whom it would not occur to close the door after they leave the room even if they would close it while using the room. Let's just say that after experiencing this in prior homes that our new home only has pocket doors where it doesn't matter whether they are open or closed whether the room is in use or not.

Awesome help - thank you! I think we'll go with it and use these suggestions.

We put them in 3 places in MBA (b/t toilet/shower room and tub/vanity room, b/t tub/vanity room and WIC, and b/t tub/vanity room and MBR). Those won't matter much if they get left open. I also had one put on PR across from coat closet in foyer - might have been better to put it on the coat closet b/c my kids and DH leave the door open all the time and since PR is only 3x7 there is no way to avoid seeing the toilet. Only put it there b/c last house coat closet and PR/laundry had doors opposite, we were always hitting them together or getting people caught trying to get in and out of the house putting coats on, etc.

flseadog - you are so right - not only am I the only one to put new paper on the roll, we have a stand that holds 3 rolls plus the "in use" roll and I'm the only one who is capable of going to the linen closet right outside the bathroom and get new roll(s) when someone uses the last one! Or a new hand towel if I've removed them to do laundry. Not that I expect much of ds (10) but DH could replace things. He *will* take a new dish towel out of the drawer by the stove if there isn't one hanging on the handle, or put new roll on paper towel dispenser. Guess it's just a bathroom thing.

We are putting in a bathroom upstairs. The main door from the large and wide hallway is going to be french doors with etched glass. The door near the toilet leads into our walk in closet, which leads to our bedroom. This door has a pocket door. We recycled our old door and made it into a pocket door.

Remember, you can not hang cabinets on either side of the wall the door slides into! That wall becomes basically use-less for anything that isn't free standing. Maybe you can put a toilet paper holder but make sure there is plenty of clearance for the door.

I am planning a bathroom pocket door. The room is small and other geometrical considerations made the plan unworkable for a 24" single door. SO, I am planning to buy 2 16" doors (normally would be for bi-fold doors) to have a 2-sided pocket door. --suggested by the door guy. The doors are paneled and 96" tall. So the big advantage appears to me to be that the stiles are narrower on the 16" bi-fold style door. The resulting panels in the planned pockets will be within an inch of the panels in the nearby 4 panel 36" wide doors. Much better than the tiny little pannel and wide stiles of the "normal style door.

Do any of you who put in pocket doors in your bathroom have 2-sided pockets? Do the pictured locks work for these or is there a different solution?

Just remember that you won't be able to have a light switch near the entry to the room. It will have to be further in than the door when the door is fully open, which means at least 16".