Configurable sliding doors with reversible hand configurations

In an architectural design environment that includes one or more modular wall systems with one or more doorways, a method for reversing the handedness configuration of a sliding door based on a vertical or horizontal orientation of the sliding door, the method comprising:

• identifying that a door in a doorway having a handedness configuration that needs to be reversed;
• removing the mounting hardware of a sliding door from a roller track affixed to the upper portion of a doorway;
• detaching the mounting hardware from the door;
• reorienting the door in a vertical or horizontal manner to reverse the handedness configuration of the door with respect to the doorway;
• and
• reattaching the mounting hardware to the door and inserting the mounting hardware into the roller track, wherein the sliding door is operable in the reverse handedness configuration.

In an architectural design environment that includes one or more modular wall systems with one or more doorways, a sliding door system that can be readily reconfigured on site for a plurality of different handedness requirements based on a vertical or horizontal orientation of the sliding door, the system comprising:

• a doorway with a sliding connector means affixed thereto for allowing a doorway closure means to slide open and closed;
• a doorway closure means for opening and closing the doorway;
• and
• reversible mounting means for reversibly mounting the doorway closure means to the sliding connector means in a left or right handedness configuration with respect to the doorway even after the doorway closure means has been installed in an initial handedness configuration.