Doors

We are, of course, all familiar with doors. We never give them a second thought. We wonder at the 10 foot tall ones in old homes that were built by millionaires "back in the day".  At least we do around here, where millionaires "in the day" took their private rail cars out here to their country estates to escape the NY city heat.

On the other end of the scale, we more normal folk live with doors squeezed in where needed. I first encountered this sort of clipped door in my penthouse suite high atop Cranford, NJ. They couldn't fit a real door under the roof line for the bathroom. So they cut the top corner of the door off. No real problem - just a quaint little quirk. Also an indicator of the luxuriousness of my "suite."

Well, as evidenced from spending the entire month of February binge-watching Midsomer Murders, these clipped doors appear to be in cottages all over England. Outside of country estates, virtually every cottage has a clipped door somewhere upstairs. Who knew?

My penthouse suite had a proud history.