dblr wrote:
... do you like the way the bathroom door works? ...
Actually, never really thought about if I actually "like it" or not. I just accepted it for the way it is.
The disadvantage, at least my bathroom, when the door is all the way open, half the door blocks the bathroom and all the drawers in the cabinet below the sink. The other half of the door blocks the hall, but it still allows passage in the hall.
So, when actually using the bathroom sink, the door has to be shut all the way, otherwise drawers cannot be opened. That took some getting use to, which I'm still adjusting to.
If the door was a conventional door, it would just swing all the way open into the hall way and rest against the hall way wall. Inside the bathroom, nothing would matter as the door would swing outward. In the hall, when opening the door, it would block the entire hall until it was all the way open. And if it were a regular hinged door, I wonder if the door would be too wide to actually swing completely open in the hall. I haven't measured how wide the hall is and how wide the door is. But if the door was wider than the hall, then the door would always block the hall.
There is also a window in the hall right outside the bathroom door. With the valance around the window, that narrows the hall way width by a couple more inches. Probably the manufacture designers choose to go with this type of door because a conventional one would not have enough clearance in the hall to swing completely wide open, always causing blockage in the hall somehow.
Do I like the pivot door? Really... I can't say I do, and I can't say I don't. I just accept it for what it is. It's different, pretty much like everything else in this camper compared to my previous campers.
Functionally? After I moved the light switch, it's really not an issue, even having to close the door completely to do anything at the sink.
