Contemporary build in north Dorset

Very nice.  Who was the architects?  I wanted to use Western Designs, but I couldn't afford them.

Why so many pocket doors? They’re expensive and you can’t fix to the wall where the pocket is as the door needs to go into it!

 

we had pocket doors planned for all our en-suites but had to use normal doors for two of them as the towel rails needed to be hung on the wall where the pockets would’ve been. Our architect didn’t pick up on that and it was a change we had to make quite a way in to the build!

 

also, they’re quite loud when opening and closing. 

Looks great, agree with @Thorfun on the pocket doors we had three but have gone down to one now.

Good on you.

As you have vaulted ceilings, is there going to be above building reg insulation.

 

I understand why you want pocket doors, will make you life easier.

They do tend to be noisy, but I would think that there are quieter ones, just a case of putting in rubber wheels, rather than nylon ones.

21 hours ago, flanagaj said:

Very nice.  Who was the architects?  I wanted to use Western Designs, but I couldn't afford them.

Geoff Cole from PWCR in Shaftesbury.  Comparable price to WDA (we spoke to them too).  We felt Geoff listened and understood what we wanted, and built on that with some ideas of his own.

Re pocket doors. I realised I posted an out of date plan - we've made some tweaks since then, in including losing two pocket doors.  We may potentially drop some of those yet.

 

One reason for using them is that I'm a wheelchair user and pocket doors are easier to open and shut in some situations.

 

@SteamyTea Vaulted ceilings are u-value 0.09, see below