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when I think of doorstops, I think of little doorstop-shaped holes stabbed in the wall. I have only one in my apartment, in a location that protects glass.

I have these on my internal and external doors.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/26742/Ironmongery/Door-Furniture/Door-Stops-Holders/Magnetic-Door-Holder-Chrome-Plated

They hold the door open and act as a stop at the same time.

I just have one where a bedroom door and closet door come together. I never paid any attention to it until this post.

don't have any... hadn't noticed... and now that i have, i don't really care enough to do anything about it... i feel like they're more of a necessity if you have kids knocking around the house.

I have no doorstops at all in my apartment except the VERY LONG ONE that bought for my bathroom, so that the door knob would not jam into the built-in hamper. Since I uninstalled the hamper out and took it to MAACO to be painted with black automotive paint, I didn't want it to be dented again. But the doorstop had to be VERY long.

It's so long, that if I had children, I'm dead sure that they would want to step on and try to "ride" it while they would swing on the door. At least if I were a kid, I'd be tempted to do that.

We have some in our house, almost everywhere. Our heavy glass and wood front door left a nice doorknob whole in the drywall. As well as the wall next to the interior basement door in the hallway (where we carry laundry baskets and move chairs down the hallway for company).

Lighter doors in the house have hinge door stops. They were there when we moved in. But some of those doors have wholes in them because someone pushed the door too hard and the stop when right through the cheap door panel. I would only recommend these for solid or metal doors.
http://images.google.com/images?q=hinge%20door%20stops&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

I've always had the flexible kind in all my apartments and houses and I never really noticed them until now!

"Do most every-man's apartments just not have them?"

Give me a break. This is worse than than the "we".

Curtis, ha, yes, that's exactly what they're for: riding!
Button, I agree, what the heck does "do most every-man's apartment's..." even mean??

I'm glad Button brought up the "we" thing too. What is up with that? Drives me a little nuts.

I have doorstubs or bumpers, I guess they're called. They are rubber and sit at the wall, not a couple inches away on the end of a wee post. Every man doesn't live in my apartment, either.

"Every-man" is not such a good word choice for this site, sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman
I did not have any doorstops in my house when we moved in, and didn't even think about it until I got a huge doorknob sized depression on the wall next to my front door. I went through the rest of the house and noticed a nick from the handle lock near almost every door....The $1.50 per stop is worth it.

I agree with Button on the "every-man" and the "we".

On topic: I've never lived in a place with doorstops. Now that I own a 120 yr old house, I'm going to look for dents.

When we moved into our apartment there were no door stops even tho there are leaded glass doors into all of the main rooms. We didnt think much of it until good friends of ours brought over their 2yr old who loves to open and shut (slam) doors. Now we have stoppers and these little wedges from IKEA that hold doors open.

This is a great example of a post that should not have been split:



http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/faucets-hardware-kitchen-bath/weve-got-no-doorstops-053128



Before the teaser: "A given in any project for any client is that the doors of their home have doorstops. Our home growing up had doorstops for each door. So why haven't we missed them in our apartment?"



After clickthrough: "We just noticed, after a long day of placing doorstops at a client's house, that our own home has none. We do just fine without them, in fact, we never even noticed their absence until today. Do most every-man's apartments just not have them? If you are searching for some, though, they're available in lots of shapes, sizes, and finishes from Ives."



Are you kidding me? How did that second paragraph warrant a clickthrough? If you keep tricking your readers into clicking for noninformation, you're going to lose them. This is abusive of the trust that every reader places in you. Ridiculous.

Better than a hand-hammered custom forged and enameled by kittens $859 doorstop in the shape of a human body part.

I use Blomus Stainless-Steel Door Stops behind the door in my apartment and when you move you can take them with you.
You can find them on Amazon. Plus if you order is $25 or more free shipping.

I'm on board with the "we" thing, as well as the deceitful "click-through". There seems to be a lot of the latter going on lately....blogs falling short of real information beyond the teaser.

And, as far as the doorstops...a given? Really?

This is a prime example of what's been bothering me lately: this site is more about selling "stuff" than about good ideas. I was so excited when I found AT about a year ago. Now I'm thinking I need to make another DESIGN site my homepage...

Makes me sad, really.

I don't think it's about selling stuff so much as talking about great stuff that we might want for our own homes.

We always used to be fascinated by the doorstops in our grandma's bungalow. They were the spring type, and we used to enjoy "doinging" them.

You hardly see doorstops in house in England at all - at least, I've lived in about 10 different houses, and think only one of them had one (and then only for one door).

Its probably because our houses are so small that most doors don't have space to open fully anyway, as there'll be some furniture or something there.

I vote YES for doorstops, but we live in a windy area. Without them, every wall in our condo would have a doorknob-shaped hole in it and our neighbors would be asking us to please stop slamming the doors.

I like the magnetic doorstops that archersam linked to. I got them on Amazon for $5/ea:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A7OOZ0

Thanks for the link, Sagekitten. Been in the market for them for about 24 hrs now. While cleaning the hardwoods, I noticed all the old doingers are bent.

If by click-through, you're talking about links, I think that's a very strange complaint. I think that it only makes sense to help people find the things that you're talking about.

Curtis: I'm talking about the way in which AT splits every one of their posts into two parts so that readers have to click in order to get to information that could have been included right on the home page.