I have yet to find a pocket door that would work well… every minor settling of the house makes them iffy. If anyone has suggestions, I would welcome those!
ours were custom made by a quality door company.That is the only way to get a really good pocket door.
Solid heavy wood, glides open and shut easily and no wobbling.
I think that’s what Coralbrook did on one of her last flips- had the pocket doors made to order.
Thanks. I will look into custom makers, but I am not holding my breath. The whatever pocket doors we have in this house were custom made and apparently top of the line in their prime, but they all have issues. Sigh.
I always like to put in pocket doors wherever possible. But you need a fully opened up wall, tear off drywall and replace studs with pocket frame and extra long headers. More expensive in the long run.
The main closets cannot have pocket doors because of the corners I see in the plans.
But, I would personally put a pocket door in the master bath and find another door type solution for the small linen closet inside the bathroom (possibly upper and lower cabinets with skinnier cabinet double doors, rather than a full door). According to the plans, that area has newly built walls anyway, so it’s a good solution. You might be able to get a wider opening for your aging future with a pocket door
I think the cute shingle style siding in your after picture looks great. Adds character
I agree! It looks much better than the sad vertical siding it replaced. Can’t wait for the siding team to tackle the garage. Then we will be all set and ready for paining! The fun part - or the agony part… color selection. 
I’m not a huge fan of pocket doors, most of the ones I’ve seen eventually have problems and become difficult to operate. For the laundry room it maybe makes sense, that room is quite small.
This… is an interesting idea. Hmm.
Thanks. Eventually the whole house will be done with that. The color is not exactly what I thought it would be based on the sample, but I am growing to like it. DW is happy with it, that’s all that really matters. 
The vertical siding was put over top of whatever was there, at some point. It wasn’t original, and it was not installed well. I suspect the previous owners did it themselves to cover whatever problems were going on with that wall (if it was a pro that did it, it was an incredibly sloppy job), rather than fix it right. My inspector was all over it.
The shakes color looks nice to me, at least on my screen. Low maintenance and no repainting - huge plus.
People do stupid “maintenance” stuff. Our house was picture perfectly decorated inside to the point that no staging was needed but structurally it was about to fall apart. Like the failing window they tried to fix with layers and layers of paint (it was obvious that it was not done to hide the issue as it showed years of repainting in the trouble spot). At the same time, there was some expensive but useless remodel that went in the house. The inspector’s report was 60 pages long and did not include the minor stuff. So far we are down to maybe 10 pages of that. 
H’s parents had an addition to their main floor wnihich included a master BR, a bathroom, and a laundry room that was remodeled exit/back door. The home has some ce woodwork, and the builder got really beautiful pocket doors that slide nicely, no problems. The dining room and master BR are wood flooring, and the kitchen, laundry and bath are all tile. The kitchen floor wasn’t exactly level, so a tile or two (8 or 12 inch tile size) were cut in two diagonally so that could be handled cost effectively.
Parent’s only regret was that they should have done the work in 1966 instead of 2014. They had to have the downstairs bed and bath.
Oh boy. I am learning a lot about home hydronics… boilers and DHW recirculating systems oh my! I can probably open and clean my boiler now after watching the service guy doing it. Not a rocket science. Although it looks scary when it fires up, it is much less scary than a forced air furnace.
My small, high windows are installed in the kitchen and the demo of the cabinets and all will start Monday or Tuesday. That gives me this weekend to pack up everything else!
Of course, D1 and her boyfriend just set out to move cross country, so they used all the boxes I had hoarded and most of the packing paper. PLUS - they left all sorts of stuff here, even from their refrigerator. Murphy’s law, I tell you…
Anyway, I insisted on them getting a small storage unit and bought some boxes there today (because of course, my favorite liquor store and Costco were both out of boxes). Drinking wine now, even though it’s lunchtime, since I’m sad that they’ve left. Then, it’s on to packing. And vacuuming and tossing stuff since I found weevils in an old bag of rice in the pantry.
First day of demo today. Kitchen was all cleaned out and echoing when you walked around. Demo was just one guy for a while so it wasn’t as messy and chaotic as I expected.
Problem is, he found a wonky floor situation under the cabinets that come out into the room like a peninsula. We are keeping that formation, but moving it back 2 feet so the wonky spot will be exposed. There’s a break in the floorboards and a change of elevation. Like the floor slopes up to that part and then down again.
I hadn’t even called our floor guy yet, figuring that would be at the end of the job, but I called him today and he actually answered the phone! How rare is that? He will come by tomorrow to look at it but I’m not sure when he can come fix it.
^ "It just goes to show you, it’s always something - if it ain’t one thing, it’s another. " - Roseanne Roseannadanna
We hired crews to demo the countertops in our kitchens, but in retrospect, we should have saved the $$. Demo work is not that hard. It took Mr. B and me a couple of hours to demolish a wall of cabinetry and a corian bench in the garage. Corian can be chunked into pieces with a large hammer. Who would have thought?!
Hope there is an easy fix for your floor!
Exactly, lol!
Regarding pocket doors, the door is never the problem; it’s the hardware, or more commonly, the installation. Quality hardware + properly installation = no problem.
“Regarding pocket doors, the door is never the problem”
If the doors are wood, they can warp. And they don’t have to warp much to stick, IME.
The siding crew is here to re-side the garage with Hardi. No more ugly vertical cedar! Yay. Then the hard part begins - picking the paint color. Yikes. The complicating matter is that all windows are brown fiberglass and aluminum. The previous owner painted the entire house, trim and all, dark brown. Ugh. Not my color scheme, but it makes me wonder if brown windows would stick out too much is I paint the trim light color? Hmm…
Paint one to test?
And an enthusiastic thumbs up for recirculating hot water!
Re: pocket doors. Or the house settles just a tiny bit…