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

Yes. I chose CDW bc of their warranty, their financing and bc I felt the material would hold up better to the exteme heat where I live. I am not sure I would use them again. We used CDW for 3 sets of bifold doors. We love having them and they really give the indoor/outdoor feeling. However, we had them installed in Aug 2018 and there was an issue at installation that has yet to be resolved. The weather stripping was wrinkled and didn’t lay flat in some places upon installation. The Company agreed to replace the stripping. When they arrived to replace the stripping, it was black not bronze. They said they would reschedule and come back. We later found out the reason the stripping didn’t lay flat was because it was painted bronze and should have been left black. The next time they came, the workman showed up but didn’t have the stripping. The next time they came they didn’t have enough stripping. The next time they came they came with the wrong stripping. I have an appointment scheduled next month and we will see if they can resolve this. Not holding my breath. Luckily I work from home and don’t have to take off work for the appts but it is an inconvenience. Mind you the workman travel 2-3 hours to my home, so their inefficient service department is costing the company money. I note that after the install I noticed one of the glass pieces had a refraction and the Company agreee to replace it no issues. There were a few times that the doors got slightly out of allignment and they came to fix them. I think this is due to the wrinkled stripping preventing the doors from alligning properly. One time this prevented us from locking our door. We explained that this was a safety issue as this was the door to our pool and they repaired it promptly. Overall, I love the doors but their service department is not run effectively. We recently replaced 6 windows in the front of our home. The caulking around the window was terrible and looked like a child did it. (This was not an issue with our doors surprisingly). The frames were scratched in some places. One piece of the window appears to be coming away after a few weeks. The stucco work on the exterior is terrible. The wall texturing on the inside was terrible as well. (We had some construction they did related to the install). I notified their service department. They agreed to let me have my own contractor redo the stucco and reimburse me. They are going to come back and replace the window frames and will recaulk around the frames. Hopefully this won’t take 1.5 years to resolve like my doors. I had hoped to avoid the hastle of a contractor and the pointing of fingers when something goes wrong, but their construction work is sub par. I am annoyed by the inconvenience of all this as I just wanted to check these projects off my list but can’t.

The whole wall opens to the patio facing the lake so there is no wall space to work as a pocket. Right now we have it as a 3 panel slider with an option for Accordion. Will have to see how costs play out. I would really like to go with the Accordion as I think it would bring the inside and outside together, but you are correct the price is scary!! Thanks for the input.

Agreed with latest comment- lay out where your sofa/accent chairs will go and think about best traffic flow for the door opening. I would think a slider opening left to right would be most convenient for kids and guests so they‘re not tracking though the middle of the living room. Also consider where the view will be when the doors are fully open. We have a similar layout and wish the doors were pocket-like or accordion style so we don’t have any frame blocking the view out our. Since you dont have a lot of wall space on either side, maybe you could do accordion style. Highly recommend since it makes indoor-outdoor space feel SO much bigger - great for parties with the deck space you have! Also, we took the screens off. Makes it feel twice as open!