Beyond Door Thousand 7: Like a Red Rag To a Bull

Joining the extensive realms of useless inventions, and the equally extensive realms of useless inventions related to doors, are these bright doors from Alexander Lervik. Although, we must admit to being strangely attracted to them, in a visceral sort of way … not everything in life must be functional to be beautiful, as the Art Deco movement and supermodels the world over understand!

These bright doors build on the last post in our Beyond Door Thousand series, which looked at the Brighthandles door handles, which glowed green or red according to the position of the thumb latch – locked or unlocked. The concept is exactly the same with these (although not necessarily copied) – but the entire door now glows green or red, according to whether it is locked or unlocked!

We mentioned that the Brighthandles were actually quite difficult to install, as you will probably need to gouge out quite a chuck from the guts of your door … ironically, these much larger inventions should actually be easier to install, as all you need to do is remove the old door and re-hang a new one. As long as you are careful, this is infinitely less tricky than chiselling out your door’s innards.

They are made out of a special plastic material which is said to disperse the light evenly, so if you have dollar signs flashing up before your eyes when you consider the cost in electricity of lighting a whole door, you needn’t worry so much … although truthfully, a normal door takes the least electricity of all – none.

In a modern home, these could really be a stunning centrepiece. Obviously the functionality aspect of them can be executed with a great deal more simplicity and less power – simply using the old green or red circle on one side of the door will do just as well to let you know whether it is locked or unlocked. Or you could just push on it!

And we really hope they can be turned off at night, to prevent insane dreams of little grey men, experiments and probes … or if you lock the door to sleep, the fires of hell!



One Response to “Beyond Door Thousand 7: Like a Red Rag To a Bull”

1. Alice says:

   8 December 2008 at 12:50 am

   Looks like a time warp