Are Pocket Doors Good For A Kitchen?
The pocket door has enjoyed a 21st century renaissance as a popular interior design feature due to its main benefit of creating space and therefore opening up more practical opportunities in the home or workplace. This enables families and businesses to fully utilise the space available to them and make lifestyle enhancements. In addition to this pocket doors are modern and stylish and can improve the visual appeal of a property. Far from being an outdated Victorian design feature, pocket doors are now a perfect solution for a contemporary home or business which is neat and minimalist. The functionality of the open door disappearing from view leaves a clean and unfussy impression which many people crave, but another benefit of the pocket door that often goes unnoticed is its flexibility.
In modern times people love the innovative space-saving quality of the pocket door, it is highly efficient and enables us to maximise the space available to us, but the flexibility the pocket door offers means we can use space for multiple purposes and change the dynamics of a space to suit what we are doing. This is the ultimate solution for space efficiency, meaning we have a simple means of adapting a space with minimal effort, and a great example of how you can do this can be seen in the kitchen.
How the pocket door allows you to fully utilise your kitchen
The kitchen is far more than just a space to prepare and eat food, it is often the central focus of a family home and where people immediately head to and gather as soon as they come home. It is also often a space for entertaining and for big occasions. Kitchens can be smaller than we would like and therefore are mainly functional, but how the kitchen links to other rooms in the home is often key to how a house flows and operates. Using the pocket door we can exploit space much more easily and change the layout and function of the home to make it flow better, and there are several examples of this in the kitchen, or more accurately, rooms that link to the kitchen.
If your kitchen is adjacent to a dining room but not linked to it, can you create an opening for some double doors? Using double pocket doors where a wall used to be allows you to link a kitchen and dining room which becomes a great open space at meal times and when entertaining, but can be closed off to maintain two separate rooms at all other times.
Similarly with a living room, double pocket doors enable you to create an open plan floor layout on occasions such as Christmas or other large family gatherings, but keep them as more functional, separate rooms the rest of the time.
Is there a small room attached to your kitchen which leads to the back door, but isn’t much use? A pocket door might just give you enough room to create a utility room. So now you can fit a washing machine and dryer in there, do your ironing in there, add some storage in there and maybe there is room for the dog to eat and even sleep in there, all creating more room in your kitchen at the same time.
Another practical use for otherwise under-utilised space attached to the kitchen is creating a downstairs toilet. You can avoid a traditional hinged door encroaching into the kitchen and make the small space itself more useful, by installing a pocket door and creating a downstairs toilet. You may even now have room for a small sink also.
Every home needs more storage and increasingly we are finding innovative ways of creating it. The solutions for a utility room and a downstairs toilet, above, can include precious storage areas, but here we are talking about those small spaces that aren’t big enough for that. So can you create a cloakroom in that space attached to the kitchen, or somewhere to stash the kids’ toys when they are not being used? The pocket door allows you to do that and therefore also open-up space elsewhere.
Contact MB Direct for innovative solutions for your kitchen doors
Kitchen doors are often glass panelled and decorative, and that is certainly possible with glass pocket doors which can be personalised and decorated with bespoke designs, and as you can see, they can be used for various purposes which help to make a home multi-functional and much more practical for the whole family. So if you want more advice on how to utilise pocket doors to improve the operational effectiveness of your home and kitchen, contact MB Direct today.