the Difficult Doorway

The entranceway from the side porch to the Outback was to serve as a main entrance with mud room/ coat closet/ storage area to the left. Fitting a door into the wall between the two presented a challenge:

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We want to have a door here

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This Doesn’t work

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this blocks the window

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this blocks the Coat Rack

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this blocks the cabinets

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a 30″ pocket door doesn’t have room to slide into the wall

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the solution is a split pocket door, partially buried in the partition wall