On 2/12/2014 3:55 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Meanie wrote:
Pretty nifty design. Would you want one?

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2014/02/12/wo...8OhGizmo%21%29


Nope. Pretty novel but it just doesn't seem to satisfy any real need.

I'm not crazy about the "bend" in the middle of each half. You can even
see in the .gif that it didn't return to "flat" by itself. As an aside,
I had to close that page after a short time; those "infinite-repeat"
..gifs make me jumpy.

I liked the second design better, but I still think I'd prefer to admire
it from afar ... in someone else's house.

My family was recently in Quebec City. We stayed in a nice hotel that
we've been to several times. They have apparently just done some
remodeling; a very sleek and modern look that was acceptable for the
most part. The one oddity was that the door to the bathroom slid on a
track. It wasn't a pocket door; the track and the door were entirely
outside the door frame on the "main room" side. This did not appear to
be to save space; the bathroom was of generous proportions and could
easily have accommodated the swing of a door.

The main function of a bathroom door is to afford a sense of visual and
aural privacy. The 3/4" gap between the wall and the door detracted from
that. Now the door probably overlapped the frame by 2" on each side, so
you'd have to be pretty determined (and lucky) to catch a glimpse of
someone inside, but you could hear sound with no effort at all.

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