Barn door for Laundry
Nitesh Jain
5 years ago
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Comments (19)Elphaba, I'm in Houston. We have completely gutted our "new" house and are in the process of rebuilding. Throughout the house, we have installed pockets for 4 pocket doors. One of those is in the master bath. I am really excited to be getting those doors out of the way. I can share my experience. We have 3 pocket doors in our office here, and we have not had any problems. The office is on a slab, and the thermostat is only kept at a comfortable level 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. This means that it gets fairly humid in there on the weekends. The office pocket doors are rarely used, but when I do use them, they work just fine. They were installed about 3 years ago without any problems. It's true that it is humid outside, but I wouldn't think with central air that it would be any more humid than anyplace else on the inside of your house. Of course a bathroom is more humid than other rooms, but if your cabinet hardware isn't sticking or rusting, I would think that the pocket door would behave in the same way. At least that's what I'm hoping since we just installed 4!!! My vote is for the pocket door. Best of luck with your project! Enduring, that's great info on the pocket doors. Thank you for sharing. This post was edited by TXBluebonnet11 on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 3:13...See MoreBlack, white and blue kitchen reveal!
Comments (51)Fourkids4us, our island is (or at least feels to us) HUGE. We love it. It is a wonderful big work space--as my user name suggests, I love to bake, and it's the perfect spot to roll out dough, let cakes or cookies cool, etc. It also works wonderfully as a buffet area when we have people over. The prep sink really takes up a very small amount of space on the island. I have all of our knives, silverware, tupperware and lunch boxes there, as well as the trash can, so it's a great spot for making lunches and prepping things for cooking. Plus, one person can be working there, with someone else doing dishes at the other sink, or tending to things on the stove, and no one is in anyone's way. We had lived in this house for about 11 years before doing the remodel, so I knew what I liked and didn't like about our previous layout. As you may be able to see, we kept a lot of our previous layout intact, because parts of it worked well for us. I did try, though, to "zone" things when we reconfigured the layout--baking zone, fruit & veg prep/lunch packing zone, coffee/tea zone, clean-up zone, etc. I have cooked and baked a lot in the new space (including making a wedding cake for 300 people!), and I don't have any things I would change or do differently in the future. All of that planning and obsession about details before construction seems to have paid off--thank you, GW! :) As to the openness to the den--it is a new experience to be all together in one room, and certainly there is noise carry-over between the two rooms. However, aside from using the blender or the coffee grinder or things like that, I can't really think of anything that I've done in the kitchen that would interfere with people watching TV in the den. Plus, we do have a separate living room/dining room, so we still have a spot to entertain or relax that is not open to the kitchen. For us, the benefits of the totally open space have definitely outweighed the drawbacks, but I think it is important to carefully consider the implications before just tearing into walls (as satisfying as it may be!). Best of luck coming up with a plan that works for you and your family!...See MoreCrash course on doors? Pocket Doors, sliding barn door and swing doors
Comments (36)"I went to work in an office that had a pocket door that never worked right because someone had driven nails into it at some point and it was never the same after" (palimpsest) Yes. This happened to us when DH nailed the baseboard on the wall between the laundry and kitchen. The door came off track. When we renovate I will replace or remove. However, this was builder grade. On our extension I added three pocket doors. The one I had put in for the powder room is a solid core door, not thinner than most doors, as I wanted as much sound-dampening as possible with such a device. We used Johnson Hardware - not the home depot variety which runs $ 40 or so, but commercial grade. Look at the Johnson site under 1500 Commercial Grade and you will also find non-standard size frames (door max thickness 1 3/4"). Use a good carpenter....See MoreLooking for paint technique ideas.....
Comments (1)You could put rub and buff all over the door http://decorchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gold-rub-n-buff.jpg Another idea would be to stencil it - you could stencil either the door or the windows http://i.shelterness.com/decorating-doors-with-stencils-001.jpg...See MoreCyndy
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