Is That a Door In Your Pocket?

Boy, am I glad to see you.

This is the first real bit of construction in our kitchen. Everything up until now has been demolition, but this door represents the first step in actual improvement. Or at least, of change.

This was a typical swing-out door, between the kitchen the the laundry room. It's got the same fan pattern on its lower panel that many other doors in the house have. We wanted to keep the door but we didn't like the way it swung into the kitchen, blocking part of the walkway. (In the old layout, it also completely blocked the refrigerator.) So we turned it into a pocket door.

Evidently you can get pocket-door kits from the lumberyard. The builders just measured the door and picked up the appropriately sized kit, and off they went. This little project was done in a few hours.

Day One is off to a good start.