Of course I know that I did a post about painted doors a few years ago.

But: my style has changed significantly.  My productions values have changed greatly.  I have more photos.  I have a broader vision.  I occasionally break my own rules.

So let’s just forget about what has come before and focus on our joy of doors here.  I will start with the scope of what I did before – but better.  Exterior doors.

 

Lovely, no?  Let’s go with one non-residential:

How about doors as concepts, as fences or yard art?

One change since the early days – I will go inside when asked to go inside – and I will show photos of things that are not within my original scope of being visible from the street, public path, or alley.

Here are a few of the interior doors I have seen – they should inspire you.

A stunt door – a tromp l’oeil revolving-painted-bookcase door in Leonard Pitt’s North Berkeley house.

Stefen painted this mural on the door of the Audubon Society.

From Kingman Hall:

The Jabberwocky!

And from Kingman’s big sibling, Cloyne Hall:

A last door –

 

The restroom door from the Med.  The Med is closed.  I doubt that this wonderful painted door survives.  But we had it with us.

Doors!  They are a great metaphor, are they not?  A door closes, another door opens.  You think that a door is locked but you learn that it is not.  Etc.

My friend flipped through the photos in this post.  He said, “I don’t think I can go painted door and keep within my Danish modern concept.”  I agreed.

“Dig the door metaphors.  How about this – she’s at the door. Rings doorbell.  It doesn’t ring.  He doesn’t know she’s there.  She leaves.  What might have been will not be.”

Well, yes, that’s a metaphor indeed.  I suspicioned that this had happened to him.  If he wants to tell me the story, he will.  But – my friend – what about the new and improved door post?