Open Door Policy: #MFRWAuthor Blog Challenge, Week 34
This week’s Blog Challenge Topic is “Open Doors or Closed Doors”. Let’s have some fun!
Not my front door, darn it!
My Open Door Policy
If you are welcomed across the threshold at my house, you’ll find an open floor plan and mostly open doors. Even our bedroom and office doors are generally open, unless we’re trying to keep the cat out of the room or otherwise need privacy.
Of course, there’s that one room that’s the exception to mostly open doors.
Closed Door Policy
The bathroom, duh.
I once read a “ten ways to keep your marriage strong” (or something similar) blog by a man who had just gotten divorced. One of the items on his list was “close the bathroom door when you poop”.
To each his own, but closing the bathroom door seems like a no-brainer to me!
Unless, perhaps, your bathroom looks like this:
Winter Palace Bathroom
Or this:
One of Napoleon’s Bathrooms
Keep these Almost Always Closed
Emergency Exit Doors
The Cockpit Door
And this one, always, unless we’re on terra firma:
What’s your policy? Open doors or closed?
This is a blog hop, so hop along with my fellow MFRW Authors and see what they have to say on this topic.
All images are from Wikimedia Commons
I’ve heard that bathroom door advice before, and it sure makes sense to me. Goes both ways, of course. Both partners need to listen
Amen, Sherry!
Apparently Americans are prudish with the bathrooms, ( closed doors). Count me as a full-blooded American! Seriously, do we have to be told to close the door? I was uncomfortable in college when I had to use the shared community style bathrooms. I had a coworker once, leave the door wide open on her stall so she could talk to me while she did her thing. I was like – GAH! NO!
I agree with Sherry, both spouses should take that advice.
Another bit of advice – post a toxic gas sign post usage!
LOL! Loved your post!
Oh, yeah, the toxic gas sign can sometimes be a must! LOL!
Yes, close the bathroom door and don’t forget the Poo-pourri!
Isn’t it interesting how approximately half of of us interpreted the prompt to be about doors in general and the other half honed in, laserlike, on love scenes in romance novels?
You are so right about this difference in interpretation. Kayelle is snickering at all of us now!
To be honest, I have a couple of deadlines coming up and I’m pressed for time, so I chose to do a quick photo essay. But I think the other variation on the topic might have been easier!
interesting take on open doors. Geronimo! Not me. Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Close the door.
A couple of years ago my daughter texted me a selfie during her jump. I nearly had a heart attack because I had no idea she was planning that. It’s just as well I found out after the fact!
Cute selection of doors. I appreciate the time you spent searching for pictures.
So wrote a whole response that got eaten.
Love technology. LOL
Anyway, what I can remember: My office doesn’t have doors, so there’s nothing to close. It sits in the middle of the house since it’s my dining room turned office. My bedroom door I keep closed. It’s the only place I really get any privacy and alone quiet time away from the kids. There are times I leave it open and all 3 boys will end up in there watching TV and hanging out with the pets that also will follow me in if the door is left open. Because they had a habit of just walking in, one year for Mother’s Day my gift was a new knob that locked.
It IS funny how differently we interpreted this blog topic! Some of those doors/entrances/bathrooms you posted are gorgeous. I’ll pass on the open airplane door!
If more than one person lives in the house, yes, close that bathroom door. I mostly sleep with my bedroom door halfway open ninety percent of the time. Creative choices for the door images and captions to go with them, Alina.
It is funny how we interpreted so differently. I loved our doors!
LOL….if I’m in an airplane, that door had better be FIRMLY closed and LOCKED! As for those emergency doors….when I was in a coed dorm, we LIKED it when the doors were open…..meaning I could spend HOURS saying goodnight to my man, or even having a quickie in the empty room on either side of it….;) Yes, we knew when the RAs made their rounds, lmao!