Lin-X Lateral Door System

On this mudroom locker that I'm building, I've got an issue that I'm concerned about, and that's that when this is installed, it'll be in a hallway. And because it's going into a hallway, there's a limited amount of space here in front of the locker, pretty common with this kind of piece of furniture. So, here's what I'm worried about. If I hinge these doors conventionally and they pivot open, like this, it requires a lot of room in front of the cabinet in order for the door to open so that we can access the stuff that's going inside here. There are a lot of cabinets where you run into this. Corner cabinets in a kitchen, sometimes vanities over a sink where we don't wanna have that door swing open and get ya in the face as it's coming by. So there's a piece of hardware that solves this problem, and it's gonna allow doors, when we have constraints on space like these do, to travel laterally, instead of pivoting. Following the manufacturer's instructions, I've got the hinges here on the back of the door. So, a couple things that are pretty cool about this. You'll see when this is installed, that what this motion will allow this door to do is travel laterally. Like I mentioned, there's a vertical bar on here that ties everything together to help solidify it. It still relies on a 32 millimeter system that's very conventional with Euro-style doors anyway. And when the door closes, little soft close at the end. So, with the hardware in place here, we're ready to snap this door onto its brackets in the cabinet, and have a look at what it looks like when it's actually in place. I've got the door on the cabinet now and snaps right onto those brackets here inside the case, just like any Euro-style hinge would do, and giving me that opportunity to open and close the door laterally, saving all that space here in front of the cabinet. So, think about spots where you'll run into this. A vanity in a bathroom, medicine chest over a sink. What about inside corner cabinets in a kitchen? It's always so dicey to get doors on those inside corners and get 'em to operate in such a way that they actually let ya inside the cabinet so you can get to your breakfast cereal that's stored inside there. So, lateral-operating hinges like this are a great problem-solver anytime you get into a space constraint like I ran into with this set of mudroom lockers.