The lav in the kitchen

[SlouchingTowardsBethlehemAgain]

We have a lavatory just off the kitchen - it was there when we bought the place, and is our only 2nd lav so very handy. On very hot days, the lav's open window will give a cross breeze to the pantry's open window - nice and cool but only works if the lav door is open. However, I really don't want to look at the lavatory bowl while I am eating dinner. DH insists it does not matter and the cool air is more important, but I find it entirely off-putting, particularity because this is mostly DH's lav and though I keep an eye on it, I am not always 100% convinced that it is pristine. Even if I move my place at the table so I can't actually see the open lav door - I still know it is there and it just feels so very, very wrong to be eating next door to an open lav. AIBU

Close the lid ?

Bead curtain? Or macrame curtain if you're fancy 😁

Yes I was going to suggest some sort of curtain as well, a fine muslin?

Gosh, I was expecting Mums net to tell me to raise my standards and not to be eating my dinner next to an open lav. Curtains? Well why not give it a go?
They would hide the old lavatory for sure.

@Planker The lid is always closed as you would well know.

Close the door when eating.
open it when done

I wouldn't like to gaze at it whilst enjoying my dinner, but the offer of a cool breeze is compelling so I think a screen door of some sort would be the compromise.

Very big tea cosy over the pan?

Can you see the loo brush ?

A bit expensive - maybe a stable door?

Was just going to suggest a stable door. Keep the bottom half shut so you can't see the toilet but open the top half so the breeze still comes through.

I wouldn’t like it. I would suggest shuttered sliding door

Can you not sit in a different direction to the lav? Surely you can sit somewhere that does not have you facing it?

What?? Jesus, no. Close the toilet door while you’re eating 😖

Get a carpenter to make a stable type door but one which is high enough at the bottom to hide the loo.

This wouldn't work if the loo is tiny, but my parents had similar and they divided the room into two so from the kitchen you're looking into a utility rather than the loo beyond.

Just shut the door

I feel the same way about out ensuite in the bedroom. I don't want to see the lav when I'm in bed!

Surely there must he a seat at the table facing another direction?

I would say door closed usually, but cool air more important if hot day.

Did you read the OP?