Someone beat me to it!

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I like to play table tennis (ping-pong) – not in a serious way but just for a bit of fun – and I always fancied having a table. Of course our living room wasn’t big enough, but I had the idea of making a large hatch between our two rooms, each with a cover attached to the wall at the bottom of the hatch opening and hinged at the bottom (I should have drawn a picture shouldn’t I? Bear with me and I’ll try to describe what I imagined). When not in use, the covers on either side would be folded up against the wall. The undersides would then be visible and could be decorated to match the wall or even painted as a mural. The upper side of each cover would be painted as half a table tennis table so when both covers were folded down into the horizontal position there would be half a table in each room with a large hatch between and a game could be played with one player in each room. We never actually put this into practice since it would require major structural work to the house, but I liked the idea and had it at the back of my mind for years in case we did actually do any major work. Now I find that someone has taken essentially the same idea and adapted it to a door – great idea but I feel that they’ve stolen my thunder!