Patent ID: 8904712

Claim:
In an architectural design environment that includes one or more modular wall systems with one or more doorways, at least one of the doorways having an upper track affixed thereto, a method of reconfiguring a sliding door after installation in a doorway from a left-handed to a right-handed opening and vice versa, comprising: installing a door frame in a doorway, wherein the door frame has first and second vertical members joined at a top of the door frame by a first horizontal member, and joined at a bottom of the door frame by a second horizontal member, the first and second vertical members and the first horizontal member together defining a top edge of the door frame which includes a plurality of mounting locations on the top edge; connecting a door pull to one of the first or second vertical members so as to define either a left-handed or right-handed door when installed in the doorway; detaching mounting hardware attached to the mounting locations on the top edge of the door frame, wherein the mounting hardware comprises an assembly for slidably attaching the door frame to an upper track affixed to the doorway; rotating the door frame one hundred eighty degrees; reattaching the mounting hardware to a new top edge of the door frame, wherein the new top edge was formerly defined by the second horizontal member before rotation of the door frame; and wherein the reattachment of the mounting hardware reverses a handed-ness configuration of the doorway, such that reattachment changes the door from a left-handed door to a right-handed door, or vice versa.