To remove the door from my guest room/study

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And replace it with a curtain?

When the room isn’t being used by guests it’s my study but it is very snug and getting to the desk means shimmying round the door. It’s a pain in the arse tbh. I can’t rehang the door because of the shape of the space.

The room is tucked round a corner at the end of the house we don’t really go to otherwise so there being a curtain rather than a door won’t really impact privacy too much for our guests and would make the room far more comfortable for me.

WIBU to change the door to a curtain? I don’t think it would bother me to stay in a room with a curtain instead of a door but don’t know about others.

I fitted these for similar reasons. It made a big difference. Especially in our teeny tiny bathroom.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Internal-Knotty-Pine-Colonial-6-Panel-Bi-fold-Door-Complete-with-Track/161681177238?hash=item25a4f2fa96:m:mWQfyBjCt8UZ0USgbi5R-mg

If you can fit a curtain track, you can fit one of those.

Argos do a folding door for £20

Will you be selling the house anytime soon? Removing the door could dramatically lower the value. (I made our box room into a study and during the remortgage the valuer refused to recognise it as the third bedroom anymore, which it was just 2 years earlier when the flat was refurbished and sold to us).

Also your insurance? It might not be fire safe if there isn’t a door anymore.

We have floor to ceiling curtains all over the place; it's an old Georgian house, very draughty, high ceilings, no heating in the sitting room at all. The ground floor is awful in winter, but now we've hung curtains in various places it has made such a difference! We have cats, too, so they can get through curtains (and play with them!) and we don't have to keep opening doors for them.

A curtain will be fine. Even I wouldn't worry about my snoring disturbing you as the room is far enough away from everything else.

Oh, one more thing! Get a cat.

I would have no problem with a curtain if I were a guest

I think a nice heavy curtain will be fine. If I were staying, wouldn't bother me.

You can often find cheap curtains in Op Shops.

I was going to ask about the kitchen too 😄

Could you cut the existing door in half lengthwise (circular saw or a jigsaw and a steady hand) and put some hinges on it to make it into a folding door?