On Mar 30, 11:03*am, RicodJour wrote:
On Mar 30, 10:55*am, Limp Arbor wrote:

My basement steps lead up into the kitchen where the door swings out
into the kitchen. *The way the rooms and steps are laid out I can't
put a pocket door at the top of the steps. *Conveniently when this
basement door is open it blocks another doorway. *Makes bringing the
truckload of stuff SWMBO buys at BJs down to the basement a real PITA.

Beside the unsafe idea of turning the door around to swing out over
the steps anything else I could do?

Maybe a bi-fold door?

If any of you have solved this annoying problem I'd love to hear how
you did it.

A picture of the situation would be helpful.

R

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| |
| Kitchen |
|
Doorway1 |
|
_____________ |
Basement | |
Steps | |
_____________| Doorway2 ___________________|

The door at the top of the basement steps is hinged on the side
adjacent to Doorway2 and swings out into the kitchen blocking Doorway2
when open. I guess I could hinge it on the other side but that
probably wouldn't be much better.

A bi-fold might help but as was already posted it would have to fold
towards the kitchen so someone couldn't lean or trip into the folding
door and go down the steps.

I'll have to do some measuring but I could maybe move the steps away
from the door with a landing but I doubt the landing would be big
enough for the door to swing in. The door is 30" and the landing
could maybe be 36".