On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:20:03 -0500, songbird
wrote:

Fran Farmer wrote:
Don wrote:
...
A pocket door slides into the wall. The house has eight of them. Half of
them double doors, and half single doors.

Ah! Thank you for explaining. That name makes such obvious sense but
I've not heard that term used for such style doors before. I can't even
bring to mind the name we use for those sorts of doors in this country.
No doubt I'll wake up at 2 am and remember.

we've called them sliding doors.


songbird

"Sliding Doors" don't disappear into the wall, ie. glass sliders
leading to a patio, or closet sliders that overlap so only half the
opening can be used at any given time. Pocket doors slide inside the
wall, there are no hinges, no door swinging to take valuable space.
Pocket doors were very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s...
once very popular for bathrooms so no door would swing into the room
that would block fixtures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_door
http://www.houzz.com/pocket-door
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr9TNu0G828