If you had a dollar for every minute you spent outside the bathroom door, twiddling your thumbs, watching the clock tick down towards the minute you were supposed to be at work (or past that minute), waiting for your blooming brother or husband to finish waxing their legs and let you have a shower, would you be rich?! Well, if anybody ever gives you all those dollars, you can buy one of these self-unlocking timers for your bathroom door. What’s more, if somebody stays in the bathroom over their allotted time, the door doesn’t just unlock to reveal them in all their leg-waxy, hair-dyeish,...

This door looks like it leads to Santa’s workshop, in the middle of Edinburgh! Wouldn’t you just feel like you were coming home to a dungeon every night, if it weren’t for the colourful door to this dwelling? Painting the panels different colors can work extremely well, and while this example might be a bit gaudy for the taste of people over about 5 years old, there is also a myriad of possibilities with variations of a single colour (olive green, sea green and green-brown, for example), ore you could use more neutral, shaded, primary colours. Photo: Colourful door by Joseph...

You may have seen some of our posts on doors that look like plain ordinary bookshelves, and drooled a bit. It just sounds so decadent, and sort of Addams Family-ish, having a secret room in your house concealed by a bookcase! We have hinted at this before - the instructions for creating a jib door, along with the jib door decorating idea which utilises book facades are one way of creating a room in your home hidden by books - but it isn’t quite the same as having an actual, opening book case in your home, a secret door to a secret room. Of course, unless you plan to knock out some walls...

We’ve spoken a lot about the energy and symbolism of doors. Your front door is the gateway to a hidden world, for all those that have never been inside your house… why not make it seem fun, mysterious, ethereal, crazy, or just a bit different to every other boring door (and therefore house) out there? That feeling of excitement and energy should last once people are safely within your walls, also …. Mwa hah hah haaaaaaa…! Also a good way to deter travelling  salespeople and religious propagandists, with the right decorations Image: Yellow door by Tim Norris