Best pocket doors for bathrooms

When looking at home improvements and how to maximise space in the home, the bathroom is often the room to consider. While it is nice to have a large spacious bathroom with plenty of room to move around and to fit shelves, towel rails and a set of drawers, in reality we can fit the essential bathroom items into a fairly small space. It is lovely to have a large bath as well as a shower, toilet and sink, but many people see a bath as an extravagance and even if they have one, rarely use it in preference to a quicker and more cost-effective shower. So if you are considering some home improvements and maybe amending the use of a room and moving walls etc, around the home, the bathroom is a common consideration.

For this reason, pocket doors for bathrooms often come into the equation. Naturally, the pocket door is a means of maximising a small space and can make the difference between a small space being used for storage or a small box bedroom and being able to accommodate the essential bathroom items, as well as maybe a small towel rail in the space behind where a traditional hinged door would have opened. The pocket door enables such small luxuries.

Which pocket doors are ideal for bathrooms?

Of course there won’t be many homes that have sufficient space for double pocket doors for your bathroom, and fire regulations mean that bathrooms don’t need fire doors, as they are classed as rooms that are low-occupancy most of the time, as opposed to a bedroom or living room, for example. However, there are a number of different styles of pocket door which do suit a bathroom, and bear in mind that these can be used for en-suite bathrooms as well as standard family bathrooms also.

The standard single pocket door is perhaps the most popular for a bathroom because it provides privacy, style and functionality. It can also then blend into its surroundings and match other doors in close proximity. The bathroom in many cases will open out onto a landing, where the door can match other bedroom doors. In modern homes the flush pocket door is also popular, as it has no architrave surrounding the door.

Although privacy is a major consideration for a bathroom, don’t discount the use of a glass pocket door. You may immediately consider that this will remove all privacy from someone using the bathroom, but at MB Direct we can supply doors that have a satin opaque finish, and hence can allow light to shine through the door, but can also maintain privacy. If a bathroom has been created from a small space, it will benefit from the use of a glass pocket door. This will enable light from an adjacent landing or corridor to enter the room and make it feel spacier and more roomy. For a bathroom it is important that someone feels fresh and invigorated, rather than enclosed and claustrophobic, and the glass pocket door enables this. The satin opaque finish then creates a ‘frosted’ effect to disguise the person using the bathroom, but does not prevent light shining through.

Glass pocket doors can also be supplied with sandblasted lines to create colourful and creative designs. These can be a bespoke design or something selected from our range. Either way, it is a great solution for providing privacy and giving the bathroom freshness and vitality.

Furniture for your bathroom pocket door

Regardless of which style of pocket door you select for your bathroom, you will benefit from our bathroom door lock range. These are a selection of two-piece lock and thumb-turn accessories, which act as a door handle and a neat locking mechanism. This range comes in many different stylish finishes, such as satin chrome, polished chrome, painted black, antique brass and polished brass. So you can choose the style to suit other door handles around the home and other fittings, such as light switches and sockets.  

For some en-suite bathrooms there is less of a need for privacy, as it is an internal bathroom within a bedroom and hence is not normally accessible to visitors. In this case, some people opt for a normal flush pull handle for their pocket door.

Order your bathroom pocket door online with MB Direct

So as you can see, you can choose the style of pocket door for your bathroom that suits your need for privacy, style and functionality. The glass pocket door is a popular choice to deliver light and vitality to a small space, while the standard pocket door retains a classic stylishness that can be adorned with pocket door furniture to suit its surroundings around your home. Whatever style you choose, you can order online with MB Direct today.