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"This is not a barn door easy miss," he said.

They shut the barn door and place a wood plank in its handles to secure it more, then back up, watching it closely.

But ultimately, “access to pasture” means just that—the barn door is open, says Kestrel Burcham, a policy director at the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit consumer watchdog group.

She says a pocket or barn door is ideal for a mudroom because a swing door can get in the way.

Outside the barn doors were beach houses and wineries and the seaside resorts of eastern Long Island.