Glass door or Wood door

OK guys..... I need a little input. The wife and I are getting tired of looking at the cooler which is sitting in my dining room. So it is time for a new humidor.

What would your suggestion be for the front door of the cabinet humidor. I like the glass door but that also means that the inside would have to look nice also. If I went with the wood door, it wouldn't matter what the inside looked like.

Not sure if this is the exact one I will be getting but it is in my price range.

CheapHumidors.com


Any other site for humidor cabinets would also be appreciated

(I figured if Island Epicurean could do polls then so could I)

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Originally Posted by Bkcloud114

OK guys..... I need a little input. The wife and I are getting tired of looking at the cooler which is sitting in my dining room. So it is time for a new humidor.

What would your suggestion be for the front door of the cabinet humidor. I like the glass door but that also means that the inside would have to look nice also. If I went with the wood door, it wouldn't matter what the inside looked like.

Not sure if this is the exact one I will be getting but it is in my price range.

CheapHumidors.com


Any other site for humidor cabinets would also be appreciated

(I figured if Island Epicurean could do polls then so could I)

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Class doors are nice, but I've seen cigars that have been bleached out due to UV rays getting in tthrough the glass. I'm thinking it's probably not a good thing....

If its going to be in direct sunlight I would advise against a glass door. Other than that its personal preference. I like to keep the inside of my humidor out of sight, but thats just me.

LMFAO @ Tommy. Sorry man, when I first read the 'subject' I thought you were poking fun at IE and I started busting a gut!

I've heard good things about that humidor over on CP. I've purchased products from them before, they have really good customer service and want to make sure you're happy! In that area, you can't go wrong.

Go with the glass if your living room doesn't point towards direct sunlight. Based on what I've read, it really adds to the benefit of owning one of those humidors (having the glass if your sun conditions are ok).

Personally, I'd go for a wood door. I would just want to keep my cigars where it's 65-70/70, and dark. And, a wooden door I'm thinking would be lined with cedar too, giving you that much more surface to interact with the cigar environment. my 2 cents. Whatever you get, I'm sure you'll enjoy - gave me a laugh when you suggested your wife is tired of having a cooler in the dining room :smiley36: , so, I'll bet she'll enjoy it too.

had to vote for the all wood

Ok, I really think glass (if the lighting works out) would be much more eligant(?)... maybe thats not the word, but im thinking from the way a glass door would look as opposed to a wooden, not nessicarily functionality. Because i dont have a clue about all that. But showing off your collection may be seen as being a bragart or show off by some, but its your HOME! your supposed to show off, you bought the big house, you got the beautiful wife, and you park the convertible out side for everybody to see... Your home is the place where your supposed to impress people.

Unless your cigars suck.. then by all means wood... :smiley36:

I have a glass door on mine, and I like it. I can pick my cigar without having to open the humidor to look. But if given the choice I would opt for a wood door because of reasons like Basil suggested...

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Originally Posted by Mavido

Ok, I really think glass (if the lighting works out) would be much more eligant(?)... maybe thats not the word, but im thinking from the way a glass door would look as opposed to a wooden, not nessicarily functionality. Because i dont have a clue about all that. But showing off your collection may be seen as being a bragart or show off by some, but its your HOME! your supposed to show off, you bought the big house, you got the beautiful wife, and you park the convertible out side for everybody to see... Your home is the place where your supposed to impress people.

Unless your cigars suck.. then by all means wood... :smiley36:

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Yep, Tommy smokes crap :smiley36: so ya better go with wood :smiley36:

Mavido makes good points about if you want to use your humi as a nice piece of furniture and feel comfortable showing what ya got inside. I'm a coolerdor kinda guy myself BUT there are those who want a "nice" humi in their study or whatever. Sounds like Tommy, you're looking for a nice looking piece of furniture so I'd say go with what you think is going to look the best in your dining room along with your other furniture in that room.

I'm not as concerned as others are with the whole "sunlight" possible problem because most of your cigars would be in boxes anyway.

Wood.

I'd go with wood to keep nosey visitor's from raiding your stash and to save my ear's from a tongue lashing from my mother every time she visit's , if she doesn't see it , she won't know it's there . :smiley36: Can it be locked ?

I actually prefer the look of wood. I think it's distinctive enough that you recognize it as a humidor, without shouting "Look at me! I'm a humidor full of pretty cigars! Love me! Pay attention to me!".

And it helps hide the clusterfuck that is my humidor... Tubes of humidity beads, cigars angled every which way, candy bars to fill in gaps...

I think the wood also has a better seal than glass.

I prefer the look of a glass door.

in fact, I did. My home humi does have a glass lid. Though, I do plan to get an all wood one for my desk at the office.

I voted glass, but it's all mostly personal preference.

I've looked at the same humidor for a while and was thinking of picking it up. If I do I'm going with wood but that is because I have a 3 yr old boy, and more on the way, and

1. Don't need the finger prints
2. If they don't notice them the better for me and my cigars
3. My wife wants to get a dog, see #2
4. I have a bunch of friends who like to mooch my sticks - again see #2

But if I didn't have those concerns I would probably go with glass because I could sit there and stare at those lovely little bundles of agricultural joy.

So I'm voting wood.

And please post what you decided, how you like it, etc.,

Either works fine as long as they are well sealed. For some reason they don't seem to seal the glass doors as well and some tend to leak.

Most definitely wood. I don't trust glass. I agree with the sealing problem of some glass doors but most of all it's the light I'd be worried about.

glass is classy.

I said glass because I like the looks of humidors where you can see the contents inside. Otherwise, the humidor looks like just another piece of nondescript wooden furniture in your house.

Get the glass.

If light becomes an issue you can use some glass tint film.

I like glass as well, love the look of roll on roll of cigars and the band art is nice to look at. Along as you keep them out of direct sunlight, glass is great.

I have a glass humidor and I love it. My friends all have glass ones as well. I like to be able to look in and strategize which cigar I will smoke next. I know it sounds crazy, but I enjoy planning what to smoke almost as much as smoking it (well, not really, but I do enjoy that part of it.)

I do have my humidor in a cool, dark place, so not a lot of light reaches it. I have to wonder about the seal problems though, but cigar shops have almost 100% glass doors and they don't seem to have much of a problem. I want one of those nice 1000 Ct units with an all-glass front to them, so that I can see them all at once.

I had a dog, but I gave him away as soon as I started smoking cigars so that he wouldn't interfere. Same thing with the wife and kids. I warned them first, though (I'm not totally heartless!) I said, "Listen up dear and kids! If you touch my humidor, I will put you out on the street; I mean it!" Ever notice how 1 year-olds take everything so casually?? I wonder how he's doing?

(Above paragraph is meant to be humor. In truth, I still have my wife and kids, because they listened the first time.)

Having that glass top has sparked a lot of conversations w/ guests at my house. I have
never had a problem w/ my smokes drying out or discoloring, but it is not in direct sunlight.
Get whatever you like best--you are going to be the one looking at it . Either way you go its going to look better than the old coolidor.