Pocket Door Power

We've got high celings... which is one of the features of our apartment that we love the most. The only catch is that high celings require tall doorways, extra-long window coverings, long lightfixture cords, etcetera, etcetera. And all of those things are hard to come by and often need to be CUSTOM. A scary word when you're on a budget.

Our doors needed to be custom and for a while we tossed and turned, stressing out over how we were going to build pocket doors that are 8'6" ie. 102 INCHES (that's a large door) that wouldn't warp or weigh so much that we couldn't open them. The whole process kind of reminded me of what it's like when I'm trying to find pants that are long enough for to fit my tall frame.

In the end, Garrick came up with a solution with Halit executed on BRILLIANTLY. It required routing (i.e. hollowing out) two pieces of MDF and then gluing them together. Clearly, I'm simplifying. Here are our first two doors. We love them and the glide like butter.

Entrance to the back hallway


And...OH YEAH...look at that door just slide on in


Entry from living room to master bedroom open


And closed