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 post for Thursday Doors.
January 30, 2020 at 5:17 pm
Great selections. Well done.
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January 30, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Thank you!
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January 30, 2020 at 9:09 pm
These doors are so quaint, as well as the houses. Hard to overlook these nice finds 🙂 Great post, Judith!
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February 2, 2020 at 10:35 pm
Thanks for your kind comment.
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January 30, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Wow! And it is, seemingly, the same red nuance!
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January 30, 2020 at 10:37 pm
I think the traditional red must have a simple, mineral formula so the same shade appears in so many different places.
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January 31, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Might be. In Sweden most reds in the central part of our country comes from the same source, so, Falu Rödfärg is well known for house painting here. The colour comes from a copper mine.
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January 30, 2020 at 10:33 pm
Excellent job in combining 2 challenges. You found some beauties in this collection.
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January 30, 2020 at 10:38 pm
Thanks, Norm. When I came to look for touches of red in my archive I found a surprising number of doors!
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January 30, 2020 at 11:36 pm
Red doors…can’t get enough of them.
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January 31, 2020 at 2:13 pm
A great selection of red doors, Judith. Thanks for joining us!
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January 31, 2020 at 5:13 pm
Thank you, Patti.
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February 1, 2020 at 1:17 pm
Great ones, lovely colour combinations throughout the post. Such beauty.
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February 1, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for your kind comment, Angela.
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February 4, 2020 at 4:42 am
Oh, I do love your red doors (and the red car.) So nice and cheery.
janet
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