Pocket door woes - please help!
We're renovating our apartment and have relocated the vanity basin out of the bathroom and into what used to be a small hallway with a large cupboard in it. This vanity room is off the main hallway.
We'd originally planned to have no door between the hallway and the vanity room (there is a door between vanity and bathroom), but were convinced at the last minute (and without proper research) to install a pocket door / cavity slider.
This sliding door is perpendicular to another doorway that leads to the living room. In hindsight we ought to have gone with a custom floor-to-ceiling slider that has the track in the ceiling cavity, but didn't realise at the time that this was an option, but we went with the tallest slider we could buy in a kit.
Anyway, now that the slider is in, it looks quite weird (to put it mildly). I think that is partly down to these terrible architraves that have been slapped on (we are removing these). And partly the close proximity to the other doorway.
To make it even more complicated, the walls on either side of the doorway don't line up (120 year-old house) and we were planning to install a cabinetry piece in the gap between the wall "stub" (where the old cupboard used to be) and the new plasterboard of the slider.
Basically, I'm looking for ideas about how to fix up this space. Should we bite the bullet and remove the current pocket door and replace with a to-the-ceiling one (involves removing all the walls and cabinetry of the vanity behind)? Could the doorway kind of be "blended in" to the cabinetry piece - ie, extend this over the door (potentially up to the ceiling)? Any other ideas?
