{"id":1115,"date":"2020-01-13T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2023-12-07T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T07:34:28","slug":"emilys-pocket-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Emily’s Pocket Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter and her partner are building a Tiny House from the ground up in Nehalem, Oregon.\u00a0 My contribution is a pocket door for the bathroom.\u00a0 For this project I selected some\u00a0 rough sawn, old-growth, clear vertical grain (CVG) Douglas fir that I had been hoarding for 30 years for the door frame and panels.\u00a0 [Click on any image to enlarge, All photos \"copyright<\/a> Max Vollmer]<\/p>\n

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CVG Douglas fir beams and boards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first step was to size and plane the lumber according to my plan and cut list for a six-panel door with a stained glass mosaic visible from one side only.\u00a0 Then I cut the mortises and tenons for the door frame and dry-fit the pieces.\u00a0 It is absolutely critical for a door that the frame be dead-square, with 90 degree angles at all joints.<\/p>\n

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Checking for square.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Door frame, dry fit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next step was to cut the rabbets all around the inside of the frame members to accept the 3\/4 inch thick panels.\u00a0 As with any frame and panel construction, allowance has to be made for the expansion-contraction of solid wood panels that occurs with changes in ambient humidity.<\/p>\n

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Dry-fitting panels in the rabbets cut into the door frame members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the door frame members sized, the mortises and tenons cut, and the panels sized, I now had a door “kit” ready for embellishment, sanding, and assembly.<\/p>\n

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The pocket door “kit.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To add a little interest, I created 45 degree, stop-chamfers around all framed openings in the door on both sides.<\/p>\n

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Stopped-chamfers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The side of the door that faces out was planned with a stained glass mosaic depicting a cormorant perched on a piling in the surf, a common sight on the Oregon coast.\u00a0 The hand crafted mosaic was glued down to a 1\/4 inch thick masonite panel sized to fit the door frame.<\/p>\n

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Stained glass mosaic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My plan called for the stained glass mosaic to be recessed 1\/4 inch in from the front surface of the door frame and “picture-framed” with thin, beveled pieces of fir.\u00a0 Then backing up the mosaic, and on the back side of the door, I cut and planed thin but solid fir panels to make it appear as a six-panel wood door on the reverse side.<\/p>\n

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Front side with mosaic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Back side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because this is a pocket door and will slide into a cavity in the wall rather than be hung from hinges, I used door pulls that were inset flush with the door surface, instead of regular door knob hardware.\u00a0 To retrieve the door from the pocket when it is open, I used an edge pull inset into the door frame.\u00a0 Finally, we wanted to employ a rare-earth magnet catch to hold the door closed and you can see one-half of that magnetic catch installed above the edge pull.<\/p>\n

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Recessed door pull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Edge pull and rare-earth magnet catch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although the framing members were glued at the mortise and tenon joints, I built in extra stability and longevity by pinning the four corners of the frame with 1\/2 inch cherry dowels that are visible only from the back side of the door.<\/p>\n

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1\/2 inch cherry dowels pin all four corners of the door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I signed the door on the bottom edge of the back side with my “makers mark.”<\/p>\n

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The “makers mark.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are photos of the finished door, front and back, in my shop.<\/p>\n

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Front.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Framed mosaic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My daughter and her partner are building a Tiny House from the ground up in Nehalem, Oregon.\u00a0 My contribution is a pocket door for the bathroom.\u00a0 For this project I selected some\u00a0 rough sawn, old-growth, clear vertical grain (CVG) Douglas fir that I had been hoarding for 30 years for the door frame and panels.\u00a0 … Continue reading Emily’s Pocket Door<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[173,172,177,176,171,174,175],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-woodwork","tag-cvg-douglas-fir","tag-frame-and-panel-door","tag-nehalem-oregon","tag-pinned-mortise-and-tenon","tag-pocket-door","tag-stained-glass-mosaic","tag-stopped-chamfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}