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The inverse pocket-door. Kind of brilliant actually. Could be too bulky for a small space though?

Excellent concept, I can see working very well in small spaces.

Smart idea! One of those "why didn't someone think of that sooner" products.

The homepage cracks me up.

I love the instructions above.

The DRAWINGS are of an inverse of a pocket door, but the animations show the moving part going into the stationery wall. Which way is it, and should we trust designers that have such a continuity problem between three items?

A nice idea, but I'm unconvinced. This probably costs more space than it is worth. Suddenly you have two hard to use walls (the opposing sides of the wall engulfed in this sliding jobby) - you can't easily put any book cases or furniture up against them and if there happen to be electrical outlets you can't use them and you can only hang art on the outer sliding wall but not the under wall but do you really want your art sliding back and forth? I'll take pocket doors any day.

Barbara - The Welter Wall company has more than one product. The animations on the site are for a different product. (I would alaborate but I don't read German.)

"The inverse pocket-door. Kind of brilliant actually. Could be too bulky for a small space though?"

Y/N Built "as is" it would be "kinda" brilliant, but with enough mods, ie having storage on the "host wall", it would actually MAKE space, however, the seams and grooves to make it slide would drive me NUTS.

you could just build a blank wall and hang it from behind with barn door sliders recessed into the drywall. lot easier/cheaper,uses less space. This door looks like after a while the stress on the one end connecting them would cause it to fail.

There are two products from Welterwall. The one illustrated here in AT is the C-Wand (C-Wall). The Flagship product itself called Welterwall is a pocket sliding door with a refined mechanism which allows the door to be flush to the wall on both sides when closed (refer to the animation section of their website). Pretty amazing german technology. Depending on pricing I'll probably use it in the house were planning to build in Switzerland since we're planning for pocket doors throughout.

BTW, the Downloads section has DE/EN brochures and planning guides.