Door-ble Trouble

This door between kitchen and living room is a minefield of issues. Dodge one problem and another two present themselves.

Sorry, I'm not supposed to say 'problem' am I. I should use 'challenge'. There, that makes it far more surmountable.

So, we cut the rails to size and made holes for the screws. That was nice and easy.

Because the instructions are useless, we're testing ideas for the next step before doing them so that we can identify and rectify issues in advance.

This approach has served us well but today we were completely stumped. Take a look at our mock-up of how the door attaches to a pivot point on the frame.

Ignoring the right hand side for a moment, in order to attach the door (the piece being held in the image) the bolt that acts as the pivot is barely in the hole. Maybe one whole rotation of the bolt. It's impossible to have the bolt properly attached AND have enough clearance for the door to function.

Now turning to the right hand side, you can see this has a sloped edge, which matches the sides of the frame. The sloped bit on the sides was already fitted. There was one length of a triangular prism supplied. Where, if not here, was this supposed to be fitted? 

The trouble is that the sloped bit we added to the right hand side now obstructs the swing of the door. As you can see, the way to avoid this is to cut the corner off the door. This is going to make the doors look weird but that's a whole lot less destructive than trying to detach the glued on sloped edge.

So that's where we got to today. We'll sleep on it and see how we want to proceed tomorrow.