Good designers are onto it.

An unexpected element can make a room. Like a corrugated-steel barn door in a dining room.

“I love them because they are textural and sculptural and unexpected…perhaps three important design concepts I incorporate in all my projects,” said New York designer Gail Shields-Miller, on her design for a Fire Island dining room and kitchen.

“It was a costly choice but undoubtedly the right decision. They are beautiful opened or closed and I adore the fact that they are not swing doors. For the most part they are left open and allow the eye to get a small glimpse of the hall to the master bedroom.”

View into the adjoining kitchen space with a second barn door.

And the unexpected doesn’t stop with the doors. Shields-Mil

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