Taking the Room Doors off
When we finally achieved the dream of being Empty Nesters, (love our
kids but were tired now) the first thing I wanted to do is take the
interior doors off except for the bathrooms. I just love the openness of
it all is why. Our bedroom is on the 2nd floor, it might as well have
no door as it's never closed as there is no reason for anyone to be up
there anyway. We have had nudist guest spend the night and they didn't
see the reason for shutting the guest room door on the main floor
either.
I never did get those doors off, the initial response
from the Mrs if I recall was a puzzled look and a couple 'what if's' so I
just kind of let it go. Now I am getting serious thoughts about bldg a
new house on a wooded property the Mrs owns. Besides the design of
total house privacy for the build the second thoughts are don't build it
with interior doors (except bathrooms) to begin with.
Wonder your thoughts and ideas.
We love having the doors off! We removed the master bathroom door to our home and I filled in and painted the trim. Unfortunately, when we rented that house the renters specifically asked to have the door put back in. We thought...how weird are those folks!?
growing up I never had a bedroom door. My room was my turf if I wished to be nude I was and everybody was fine with it. My sister, a year older probably learned more about boy's anatomy and how it worked than she ever would have from sex ed and girls talking. I never hid anything I was doing because there was no way to. I know growing up she saw me stroking whether it was by choice or accident, I don't know some of her friends who spent the night learned anatomy as well, none ever complained some spoke frankly giving me credit for not hiding my body. My kids growing up had bedroom doors but they were very rarely closed.
I live alone so I don't need doors for privacy. Neither do my occasional guests. But my house is twice the size I want or need and I don't see me getting rid of it unless this real estate market makes an about face. So I need some doors to close off half the house so I can heat and cool just the half I live in. I took my bedroom door off, it wasn't needed and, besides that, it conflicted with my doorway pull-up bar. There are three more doors that I just don't need so I removed them. No problem storing them either. I'm using the other half of the house as a warehouse lol! And I can have them all back on in a matter of minutes if, by some wild chance, a buyer shows up on the horizon. So, at least in my case, sometimes it makes sense to remove doors and sometimes it doesn't.
Can you get pocket doors without locks?
Sure you can.
Pocket doors might be something to consider. Being in the Bldg trades I can tell you they can get to be a pain in the arse if they are used very much. Track issues like the Bi-fold closet doors often get. But then I doubt in our case they would get used to very much.
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