One Word Sunday: Doors
I haven’t joined Debbie’s One Word Sunday challenge before but this week’s subject, Doors, was just too tempting. It gives me a chance to show off the beautiful Francesholm, and below I have added a selection of other varnished doors from around Glasgow’s West End – although the white house was snapped more for the painted border and the spider on the wall!
Ex-shop in Partick
Kensington House
Varnished door with red storm doors
Varnished door
Varnished door with floral wall
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
I love seeing house names in stained glass windows above doors. A lovely collection of doors here.
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Thanks! Francesholm is a very pretty one.
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I’ll en-door-se this post.
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I see what you did there!
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Fantastic selection of doors, Anabel. I have always marvelled at how often I got away with taking photos of people’s homes, and not one opened their door. Luck, I suppose.
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Thanks Suzanne. Yes, luck. All of these are serendipitous except Francesholm which I passed many times before I got a picture with the storm doors shut!
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A bit of stained glass always adds an air of quality.
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Sure does!
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Love the house with the red storm doors and railings leading to, lots of character!
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Red doors and a red rose to match!
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Hi Anabel – aren’t they fun … looks like an interesting area of Glasgow … love the spider … cheers Hilary
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Thanks Hilary, lots of great doors round here – but not so many spiders!
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Frozen out, I expect?! Cheers H
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It’s always interesting to see other people’s doors. Some are so full of character.
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They are, especially the older ones. The stonework is amazing too.
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Very nice.
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Thanks!
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Great selection, Anabel!
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Thanks Sue!
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Pleasure!
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Beautiful captures, Annabel. Those red doors especially make we want to step inside!
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Thanks, Donna! The red storm doors are certainly very enticing.
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Some very grand entrances here Anabel. I love the idea of storm doors. I could definitely do with those!
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Very common here! All the tenements have them at the close entrance, and even the individual flats on the internal landings usually have two sets of doors.
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I’d love to see inside one of these apartments.
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Some of the ones round here are splendid! But both my grannies lived in tenements, and although not as small as a “room and kitchen”, they weren’t at all grand.
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What a wonderfully eclectic collection of doors. It reminds me that I need to make a decision about restoring our front doors so that they are more “us”.
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Good to have reminded you then! Our door colour was specified when we bought it new: all the houses in the street are red, though as people repaint the shades tend to vary.
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What an interesting balance of conformity and asserting individual identity.
My problem is that the siding on our house and the frames of our storm doors are tan (blech!) and I don’t know what colour to repaint the actual wooden front doors to work with that and still be our taste and personalities. The doors are currently black.
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I think it’s more that no-one knows what the correct shade is! Different colours would probably look better than a row of clashing reds.
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So many of us find doors hard to resist, don’t we? You have some lovely ones here – I especially like that stained glass window and the bright red door 🙂
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I know, I have many more! During and after lockdown when I had nothing else to write about I did quite a lot of posts with my random findings: now the photos are all languishing. And I have lots to write about with no time!
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I know what you mean! And now you’ve tempted me into also joining this challenge 😆
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I love Francesholm – clearly dripping history even if we can’t actually interpret it all.
I always enjoy a wander in Glasgow and clearly I still have much more to do 🙂
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I guess this is all off the “tourist” trail in residential streets. But lots of beautiful architecture to look at all the same!
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I like the coloured glass above the Francesholm door but white walled houses with flowers really do it for me, with or without resident spiders 🙂
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I’ve never seen another house quite like it. There was a lot of work going on re-doing the drive way in the first lock down – the picture is August 2020 when the decoration appeared. Perhaps to cheer the owners up.
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That Francesholm door deserves its place as your favourite, but you’ve got a great varied selection here.
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Thanks Margaret. Some of the entrances around the West End are very grand, others less so. Ours would be in the “less so” category!
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Hi/ Might it be that the owner of the house was, and maybe still is, Frances Holm?
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That’s a thought! I had wondered if it was a take on “Frances’s home”. I did Google Frances Holm and there are people with that name but no-one that fits. I suspect the glass is original Edwardian. I also discovered that there is another house called Francesholm on the Isle of Bute! That made me think it could be a place name, but there is nothing on Google Maps. See all the work you’ve made me do 😉!
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Doors – such a lovely, picturesque, and versatile theme. Great shots, Anabel. I’ve found quite a few rustic ones here in Colombia so far.
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Thanks Liesbet! Those would be good to see. Mine are mostly lockdown hangovers from when I was photographing anything and everything to stave off the boredom of doing the same walks again and again.
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