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Maya Glantz

This 'Air Curtain' Trick Is How Restaurants Keep Things Cozy and Keep Cold Air Out in Winter — I'm Tempted to Try It Around My Doors, too

A golden-lit restaurant dining room draped in plush fabrics, velvety banquettes, and colorful artworks, as well as sculptures.

It's a special kind of feeling when you've been out and about all day in the bitter winter cold, with frost-bitten fingers and an icicle for a nose, to then arrive at a restaurant to a much-needed enveloping hug of warmth to transport you from the Arctic straight onto a tropical beach.

And so now, every time I leave my house, I find myself craving the same level of comfort to greet me when I return, and, as I've just discovered, it's not just restaurant magic, it's actually a very simple (and relatively affordable) heater. Who knew? It's called an air curtain (very different from a thermal door curtain, might I add, if that's what you now have in mind), and although the ones we encounter at restaurants are typically industrial models reserved for businesses, after a bit of sleuthing, I've come across the Mylek Glass Overdoor Air Curtain Heater Fan.

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