The cheerful red door of the Hen and Chickens hotel briefly distracts from the fact that this Berwick building is empty and neglected.   On second glance the red looks a little too bright, maybe a desperate attempt to cheer the place up before it went out of business.

Classic, warm red is an inviting, confident colour, equally at home on the door of a country cottage or an elegant city mansion.  Here’s a collection of old favourites, prompted by this week’s Lens-Artists challenge Find Something Red .

 

A narrow entrance in Edinburgh’s Canongate – May 2016
Garden door and window shutter in Auray, Brittany – May 2016
Traditional red in Provins – March 2018
And three Parisian doors – plain and practical…
classic curves …
and over the top detail – the entrance to Église St Paul in rue St Antoine

 

A post for Thursday Doors.