Day 44: The Pocket Door

We decided to install a pocket door in the doorway between the kitchen and the hallway that leads to the bedrooms.  We're hoping that this adds both some privacy to the bedroom area of our bungalow and some noise control.  We know of several neighbours who have done this and all of them strongly recommend it.  The only thing is that I didn't quite realize that to install the hardware for the door would involve a complete removal of part of our wall.  I guess I didn't really think about how it would work.  But after some fiddling and drywall cutting DH has gotten it all installed!  Yeah!  Here's what it looks like so far...

We bought a sliding pocket door kit from Home Depot.  It comes mostly assembled, we just had to slide it into the opening we'd created within the wall, after reinforcing with a header of course.

Now we are just going to start working on the repair of the wall.  We also haven't actually gotten a door yet.  We are thinking about this one from Rona.  I really like the horizontal window panels, plus we can stain it to match the kitchen cabinets.  Hopefully we can find some in stock.  Wish us luck!

Day 40: Where has the time gone?

It has just flown by!  I can't believe that we have been without a kitchen for over a month.  It is going well.  DH had some troubles with the wiring and has taken off a few pieces of drywall, but it feels like we are finally moving into the construction phase of the project instead of the destruction phase.  DH also installed the hardware for a sliding pocket door and I have started finishing the drywall.  Here is what it looks like so far...

I'm hoping that the project starts to speed up a little, but this is the last week of soccer, the jazz show was a success, the block party was a huge party and my little brownie and spark are on a break until next year.  Here's to some free time in the evenings!