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Guess Why This Doorway is Shaped Like This
This image has been making the rounds. Assuming it isn't AI generated—is it just me, or does the perspective in the room beyond look funky?—any guesses as to why a door would be modified in this way?
A Redditor claiming to know states: "This is for blackboards/whiteboards to be wheeled into and out of the room."
Perhaps that's true. My next question is: How did they handle the header? Do you reckon it's just been moved above the highest point of the opening?
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buy a smaller whiteboard idiots.
This is likely to be a non-load bearing steel stud wall, and the frame is pressed steel, so not really complicated to manufacture or install.
There may not be a structural header if the ceiling and its members are high enough, in which case it's just a matter of making a weird shaped door and frame. Still a very odd solution to a problem that *could* be solved by turning the whiteboard at an angle, and maybe taking the door off its hinges.
Or just using a smaller whiteboard.
No need for a header since the wall is almost certainly a non-load-bearing, light steel frame. I have to think humour is the main reason. It's extremely unlikely that this was any cheaper than getting a taller door. (Or a smaller whiteboard)
What gets me is that the "tab" is centered on the door, but the gap isn't centered in the frame.