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Closet doors will fall pretty much in to 1 of these 4 types: Pocket, Sliding/Bypass, Bifold, and Hinged.

Pocket - Like many others have pointed out you would need to rip out the wall to install pocket doors. Even then, without seeing how wide the wall is along the left of your closet you may not even have room for pocket doors.

Sliding/Bypass - Your typical sliding closet doors will be 2 individual doors in the opening. The problem you'll have here is that half of your walk in closet will be covered at any one time. One option here would be to have the 3 doors instead, each on their own track. You will need a jamb at least 5" deep which it looks like you do. The benefit here is that now you will have 2/3rds of your closet open at any one time making it easier to get in and out. Another option we do from time to time is a surface mounted slider. They do look more like a barn door and might not be what you want, style wise, but you might have enough room to mount it to the inside face of your closet.

Bifold - We make a lot of bifold doors and one thing people are often not aware of is that there is closet track hardware out there that allows for up to 6 individual doors to fold to the same side. This means you could use any style of door, louvered, panel, fabric, whatever you want, and hang them as bifolds with all folding to the left of the closet away from the hinged door you show in your pictures. So even if the closet doors are left open you won't have to worry about walking in to the room and right in to the doors.

Hinged - 2 hinged doors would definitely look nice but the problem is they will stick far out in to the room. So if you are coming in to the room from the right you might just walk face first into one of those doors. As an alternative, one of lines of Johnson Bifold Track we sell with our doors can handle individual doors up to 48" wide and 108" tall. So if you really want 2 large doors in that opening you could bifold them to the left. Yes they will stick far in to the room but no more than a hinged door. Plus they will leave that doorway to the right wide open.

I hope this helps,

Jim


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