Kitchen doors

Mine is walk in, it's technically a maid's room but since we don't have an in-house maid living next to the kitchen, we converted it to a pantry. It's pretty big.

Why even put those kinds of doors in there? The top is visible, the bottom is visible, light gets in, insects get in, humidity gets in, everything gets in.

No. I have a walk in pantry that has a normal door. (3500sq ft home) same thing here, converted the maids room into the wine cave and the wine cave into the pantry...

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OP here.
I do like the look of them and the psychological separation of space that they give but I am also curious about the practicality of them.

Though humidity is a non-issue here and light and air is a good thing.

Light and humidity are not good things for a pantry.

I live in a VERY dry climate.

Things that need to be kept dark can go in cupboards, why is light bad specifically? Potatoes?

UV degrades stuff stored in clear containers, and well, yeah, potatoes, other tubers, and members of the allium family (garlic, onions, etc) should be stored in dark, cool places.

nearly everything keeps fresh a longer time in the dark. Dry and dark is the main reason you want a seperate room for pantry stuff from in-use kitchen stuff. If you don't know what a pantry is actually for, you would be better off just making a storage room out of it.

>having doors for a kitchen

For literally what purpose other than getting in the way of serving food?

To prevent the smell from the kitchen to stick all over the house? Especially when you're cooking oily or spicy food which is always in Asia.

>prevent smell from kitchen
>smell is getting transported by warm air
>warm air stays at the top
>install doors with open top halfs

It's like poetry.

Install stove ventilation and open a window

I think those are pretty. Certainly more interesting than simple doors.

Your children could play saloon with those as a prop.

Might think about making them full length, though. As an added precaution against vermin. Even if your kitchen is kept extremely clean, that would be a point of consideration, I think.

You might think about also creating a thread in /diy/. Sounds like a topic for those guys, too.

>As an added precaution against vermin.
totally useless. If the door was sealed against the ground in order to prevent ingress of vermin then they wouldn't swing freely. The gap required for that kind of door to work properly is too high for it to exclude vermin.

You get rid of vermin by cleanliness. Trying to physically exclude them is a fool's errand.

>tfw no qt MS waifu

I guess you are right. I still think they are a nice home feature. Certainly cooler than just a regular ol' door.

You could have them on some kind of spring/resistance system, where they give more resistance the more you push them back. The fatter you get, the harder your pantry fights back. And if you reach critical mass, you may not leave again until you are skinny again.

>You could have them on some kind of spring/resistance system, where they give more resistance the more you push them back

They already have that. That's why the doors swing "closed" on their own. Usually the mechanism works by a wedge and the weight of the door. The more you swing the door the higher it rides up the wedge; the weight of the door acts against the wedge and pushes back. Some have springs but that's the most common mechanism.

Alas, they don't have the fat-sensing capability you mentioned, but that would be pretty cool.

Have the springs be based on some adjustable hydraulics system or something like that with wireless capability, linked to your phone and your bathroom scales. Gained 5 pounds? No foods for you!

>Pros
You can get in and out without having a free hand
They look kinda neat
>Cons
>They'll get squeaky as hell
>You will at some point get hit right in the face by the swinging door and it won't happen only once

OP here, thanks for your advice.

I like them but my wife hates them. Aren't the fairly standard on pro kitchens? I always wondered why.

>for my pantry
Doesn't make sense. Is it a walk-in pantry? You're going to lose the space that the doors swing into. Either that or else you're going to have to pull them open every time.

Or maybe you're one of those richfags living in a McMansion where the pantry would sleep a family of nineteen Bangladeshis, oh God think of the smell, I just wanna barf. But anyway, if that's the case, then go for it.

When I was a little kid, my grandparents had a set of swinging doors on one of the hallways in their house (the one leading to the back of the house). They were a lot of fun.

>You get rid of vermin by cleanliness.
Death camps are also an option.

>maid room
>no maid
come on dude, don't you watch porn, this is a prime opportunity for you and you wasted it to store some canned beans and bags of flour

Not OP but live in a 3500 sq. ft. home, built in 1950's so I don't have a McMansion... but I too have maid quarters that was converted. I have cabinet pantry space and a walk in pantry that you would consider a child's bedroom. But that's life in Palm Springs...

A store I worked at had these (though less ornate) between the shop floor and the storage area in the back. They were modified to only swing outwards, to comply with safety regulations.
Lots of running back and forth through these doors, pushing carts or carrying sacks or armfuls of boxes. Going out into the shop floor was convenient and went smoothly with no accidents I knew of. Going in was a bitch. In order to avoid freeing up a hand or have someone help you get in, you had to do an elaborate dance:
>approach the door head-on if carrying goods in hand, or in reverse if using a cart
>push one door in slightly with your foot and wedge the foot into the crack
>hook the other door with your foot and pull it outward
>quickly turn and hop towards the door so your body is holding it open, freeing the foot
>use your foot to push the other door open and get in, keeping one door propped against your back and the other against your foot until you clear the doorway
Didn't strike me as practical.

Just make an entire room of the house into a pantry.

We did...

>They were modified to only swing outwards, to comply with safety regulations.
What is the exact wording on that regulation, because that's fucking retarded.

>>maid room
>>no maid
>come on dude, don't you watch porn, this is a prime opportunity for you and you wasted it to store some canned beans and bags of flour

We talked about it but I just couldn't sell my wife on the idea of an in-house pussy licker. She's like; that's your job user.

And for my own use? That's just not the kind of thing that's gonna fly. I know it's a missed opportunity and I could have made anime real but not and stay married. This is where /r9k/ tells me not to stay married but that's because they couldn't get married in the first place.

>Just make an entire room of the house into a pantry.
OP here, yeah, that's how it is. It's not a big room but it's definitely walk in.

>Not OP but live in a 3500 sq. ft. home, built in 1950's so I don't have a McMansion... but I too have maid quarters that was converted
I have a apartment but on the large side.
>a walk in pantry that you would consider a child's bedroom
That about describes it.

>hates them

Did she give any indication why? I mean, there is really nothing all too offensive about swinging doors.

She thinks that they'll beat her up, get in her way, the swing back will knock stuff out of her hands...

Suggest to her to install a revolving door instead and watch her have a nervous breakdown.

Very few things that start with my wife having a nervous breakdown are going to end well for me...

My fallback position is a pocket door but she's not keen on the complexity and associated build costs.

Maybe you could install those thick rubber strips hanging from the upper door frame. Like they use in meat packaging plants to separate areas. It is always great fun to walk through those.

How about a curtain?
It would be cheap to install and easy to deal with.

I ain't no doctor, but it looks like Huntington's to me.

>How about a curtain?
>It would be cheap to install and easy to deal with.
It would and I'll go for that over a door, mostly because I can tie it back and never have to deal with it again.

I kind of hate having to brush curtains aside, I'm tall enough that they don't have much give at my head height and I have to brush them aside with my hands all the time which is actually more effort than pushing open a door.

You could get a curtain with a tie-back. Depending on your wife's position on the tied-or-not-tied issue, you could end up with the curtain tied back most or all of the time, posing no obstacle to your head.
You could also go for something like the Japanese noren, which is made of a light fabric and has a vertical slice down the middle, making it easier to part it without effort.