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[bevedfelker]

For those who haven't seen the older bathroom double fold doors here's a drawing I made. The figure on the left is with the doors closed. There is a long piano hinge on the right side of the right door to the bathroom wall on the living room side. There is also a long piano hinge connecting the left door to the right door. There is a pin at the top of the door engaging a latch mounted to the ceiling

The figure on the right shows the doors open. You press down on the door latch and disengage the plastic pin connecting to the latch in the ceiling. The right door (dark green) swings counter clockwise. The left door (light green) swings clockwise. There is another ceiling latch to hold the doors open as shown. When open the right door close off the hallway from the living room to the bedroom. The left hand door sits flush against the refrigerator door. The doors are designed so that when they are fully open you are able to open the closet door.

You can see how the open doors allows the entire hallway area that was in front of the closed bathroom doors to become a dressing area. In addition the right hand door (dark green) has a full length mirror on it.

My wife and I really like the design. The weakness was the plastic pin and latch at the top. You have to be careful with it so you don't break the pin. We always depress the latch fully when opening and closing the door so that the pin doesn't snap in and out of the latches at the ceiling.