Yes, that would be a door, standing in the middle of our living room, as a birthday gift to our girl. :OD
Back when I was pregnant, we had a cat and a dog. I feared for the safety of the baby at night with a cat who loved to snuggle against a warm body and usually up around a head... and a rambunctious dog who we loved dearly but knew she was an animal foremost, our fur baby secondly. I hated the thought of closing a hard door and muffling any sounds the baby might make (I didn't fully trust baby monitors), and for either of my babies to be closed in a room with not much way for the air to circulate (it could get awfully stuffy)... So I came up with the idea of building screen doors for their bedrooms. Very much like a farm house screen door, solid but latches closed like a normal door. Hubby liked the idea, and built them exactly as I had envisioned them (you can't buy screen doors the size of indoor room doors, they only come in the large size of a front door.) They turned out to be awesome! Here's a photo of it in my son's room.
I used to creep up to their doors, and peer through the screen and see that the kids were still sleeping, or playing quietly in their cribs, and I'd creep away, never having to open their door and wake them from the sound of the door. I could hear the kids easily in their rooms at any time, eventually the baby monitors were removed, and it's been nice over the years to hear them when needed. One night my silly Dude was jumping on his bed, fell and split open the side of his head on the corner of his dresser. If he had had a regular door on his bedroom closed, I don't think we'd have heard him right away. It had been a pretty bad wound, needing stitches.
I loved that our two fur babies couldn't get in the rooms, keeping their doors closed almost all of the time, yet air was circulating wonderfully through the screen in the doors. As the kids got older, they loved that they could have their door closed but not feel closed in. Z still loves his screen door, and has no desire for privacy yet and likes that a dim glow of light comes fully through his door at night, even though it's closed. He likes being able to hear what's going on outside his room at night, yet not being closed off. B on the other hand is ready for a solid door, ("with a lock!" she says, Z's had a lock on his for about 2 years now). LOL
Hence the door standing in our living room. She's been asking periodically for a new door and really liked this white door for some reason. Hubby installed it yesterday and B is thrilled. We tossed the original old crappy hollow flat cheap doors ages ago, saying that we'd buy new doors when they were ready for them. Well, one has been bought. :O) Happy 6th Birthday Baby Girl! Love you oooodles!!!! <3 :D
