A lace curtain hangs in the window next to this cottage door, the kind you'd find hand-worked at a market stall down the coast. The wall's painted a s
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A lace curtain hangs in the window next to this cottage door, the kind you'd find hand-worked at a market stall down the coast. The wall's painted a solid blue for the bottom stretch, and the number 3 is brushed straight onto the plaster, no house sign required.
A hand-forged iron cross bars the window of this cobalt door against a wall the color of egg yolk. Someone still polishes the brass knocker. The house
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A hand-forged iron cross bars the window of this cobalt door against a wall the color of egg yolk. Someone still polishes the brass knocker. The house number is painted on an azulejo tile, in case the color scheme wasn't already doing enough work.
There's a TV antenna bolted to the top of this ochre cornice like an afterthought, but everything below it is deliberate: mustard trim, a stone lintel
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There's a TV antenna bolted to the top of this ochre cornice like an afterthought, but everything below it is deliberate: mustard trim, a stone lintel worn soft at the edges, and two terracotta urns standing guard like sentries.
Three doors, three colors, one unplanned stop on the coast between Lisbon and Sagres. An ochre-trimmed estate gate, a cobalt door with a hand-forged i
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Three doors, three colors, one unplanned stop on the coast between Lisbon and Sagres. An ochre-trimmed estate gate, a cobalt door with a hand-forged iron cross, and a lacey cottage entrance are up for a vote this week.
Named for the one-man show taped to the railing, Scaramouche Jones, after commedia dell'arte's roguish stock clown. The door itself is anything but ro
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Named for the one-man show taped to the railing, Scaramouche Jones, after commedia dell'arte's roguish stock clown. The door itself is anything but roguish: violet paint, a spiderweb Adam-style fanlight, and a rowan tree hung with red berries at the step.
Named for the psychedelic banner out front, a tribute to Janis Joplin. The door behind all that noise is a plain white Georgian six-panel, on a quiet
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Named for the psychedelic banner out front, a tribute to Janis Joplin. The door behind all that noise is a plain white Georgian six-panel, on a quiet New Town street that predates the festival by two centuries.
Named for the poster hanging out front: a riff on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The door itself sits inside a 1931 stone pediment rea
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Named for the poster hanging out front: a riff on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The door itself sits inside a 1931 stone pediment reading Edinburgh Welfare Housing Trust, blue paint against pale sandstone.
Green door, marigold-yellow wall, no apologies. Look closely at the nine-pane window and you'll catch the photographer's own reflection mid-shot, buck
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Green door, marigold-yellow wall, no apologies. Look closely at the nine-pane window and you'll catch the photographer's own reflection mid-shot, bucket hat and all; that's about as close to a signature as I leave on these doors. The black iron ring knocker still gets used daily.
This Terceira entry disappears into its own wall. The hand-painted azulejo tilework, Portugal's centuries-old glazed ceramic tradition, wraps the door
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This Terceira entry disappears into its own wall. The hand-painted azulejo tilework, Portugal's centuries-old glazed ceramic tradition, wraps the doorway in gold and cobalt, and the door just matches it and keeps going. The octagonal glass panels catch the pattern too.
A red door in Terceira held together by carved rosette medallions and a wrought iron grille that turns morning light into a lattice on the floor. The
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A red door in Terceira held together by carved rosette medallions and a wrought iron grille that turns morning light into a lattice on the floor. The brass "CORREIO" mail slot is doing quiet work; it's simply the Portuguese word for mail. The granite frame keeps it grounded against the coastal weather.
And the winner is: Sea Glass. The theme was the doors of the Greek Isles (Santorini Edition) It was close all week, but those weathered blue shutters
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And the winner is: Sea Glass. The theme was the doors of the Greek Isles (Santorini Edition) It was close all week, but those weathered blue shutters and the crossed balcony railing edged out Kavalari's twilight glow and No. 87's weathered arch, 40% to 34% to 26%. New doors are up now: https://doors.sidewalksafari.com/vote-for-best-colorful-door-in-terceira-azores/
Last week's winner: Gritar, a pair of grimacing bronze face masks that took 46% of the vote in Escutcheons in Europe. New matchup is live now in Santo
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Last week's winner: Gritar, a pair of grimacing bronze face masks that took 46% of the vote in Escutcheons in Europe. New matchup is live now in Santorini, link below to cast your vote.
Finally, candidate 3 for "Door of the Week". This one features cobalt double doors in Ericeira, Portugal, with lace curtains behind the glass and a sm
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Finally, candidate 3 for "Door of the Week". This one features cobalt double doors in Ericeira, Portugal, with lace curtains behind the glass and a small ceramic dolphin perched above the frame, a nod to this surf town's relationship with the Atlantic.
Door of the Week candidate 2 is a cobalt double door in Ericeira, Portugal, guarded by a devotional tile of São Miguel, Saint Michael the Archangel, s
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Door of the Week candidate 2 is a cobalt double door in Ericeira, Portugal, guarded by a devotional tile of São Miguel, Saint Michael the Archangel, spearing the dragon above the frame. A blue traffic arrow and two potted plants stand sentry below.
This week's Door of the Week challengers are live. This one is a navy door tucked into a wall of checkerboard azulejo tile, with a wrought iron grille
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This week's Door of the Week challengers are live. This one is a navy door tucked into a wall of checkerboard azulejo tile, with a wrought iron grille and a red cloth strung across the line overhead. Ericeira, Portugal.
