Folding sliding doors can make for a really unique feature in your home, letting in plenty of fresh air and light, and making for stunning views. Plus, you get to put ordinary door handles on them - no reduction of your range options! Folding sliding doors take up minimal room when they’re opened, and are usually made of glass. Unless, that is, you are in a primary school, and the folding sliding doors are those fabric-covered, accordion style ones *shudder*. You can even get much smaller, dual panel folding sliding doors. These are recommended for spaces where a swinging door would be in...

This door looks like it leads to Santa’s workshop, in the middle of Edinburgh! Wouldn’t you just feel like you were coming home to a dungeon every night, if it weren’t for the colourful door to this dwelling? Painting the panels different colors can work extremely well, and while this example might be a bit gaudy for the taste of people over about 5 years old, there is also a myriad of possibilities with variations of a single colour (olive green, sea green and green-brown, for example), ore you could use more neutral, shaded, primary colours. Photo: Colourful door by Joseph...

We’ve spoken a lot about the energy and symbolism of doors. Your front door is the gateway to a hidden world, for all those that have never been inside your house… why not make it seem fun, mysterious, ethereal, crazy, or just a bit different to every other boring door (and therefore house) out there? That feeling of excitement and energy should last once people are safely within your walls, also …. Mwa hah hah haaaaaaa…! Also a good way to deter travelling  salespeople and religious propagandists, with the right decorations Image: Yellow door by Tim Norris

It wasn’t too long ago that we added some beautiful wooden door handles and knobs to the site. Wouldn’t they look great on the building that this gorgeous thatched-effect wooden door protects?! We can only hope the effect is repeated inside – it doesn’t look as if you’d have the pleasure of opening and using this very old wooden door. (Probably the reason it doesn’t have much of a handle…!). It is bricked up, probably to prevent it falling to pieces with use

This beautiful, apparently Art Nouveau style door is in Brussels, on Rue de Lac. You can see that it incorporates the normal windows that surround a door, but in a completely new way – the entire purpose of the Art Nouveau movement. When viewing the thumbnail, I first thought that the actual door was this bobble-ended sort of shape … wouldn’t that look impressive while being opened,  to someone walking down the street!

So many of our impressive doors are on churches, and interestingly, there seems to be few stylistic boundaries for the Church … any church! This is the entrance to a modern Catholic Church in Munich, and really creates a defined, calming and soulful theme for the entire building. The half-seen reflections in the door and front wall are a lovely metaphor for the grabs of truth that church attendees are trying to find, while the blue should have a calming effect … although it is definitely vibrant enough not to send people to sleep!

This wrought iron ornament is on a Parisian door … you can almost tell by looking at it, can’t you! The symmetry and the symbolism of the patterns, the ornate curling ends and the flower design in the middle all echo those ringlet-ed towering hairstyles on French ladies back in the last couple of centuries. As a side note – the photographer says to look at the close view to see how dirty Paris is. I think that this is only furthering the stereotype that all French people are dirty, so don’t recommend it … and besides that, I don’t want to discover that the ornament is not quite...

Interesting how this door is shot from above … descending into the Smoke Room, like you are coming from a better place, into a seedy and decrepit hole. All that is missing is a flickering red neon light, and darkness behind the door, which is only punctuated by the glowing ends of evil, evil cigarettes! On an artistic note – it is a little hard to see, but doesn’t the rich brown of the copper door handle work well, colour-wise, with the royal blue door? Something to take note of for your own use of copper. Photo credits: Old door by Ian Broyles

This photo was really highly praised on Flickr … and truthfully, it is a beautiful shot. I don’t know how it makes you feel – but it makes me a little uneasy, like I am staring at a madman’s cell, or something! It could easily be a setting in an arthouse horror movie. The door is gorgeous, and the marble-looking tiles on the floor are decadent, but the white, white walls, the floor which is clean enough to eat off every inch, and the hundreds of bolts in the door give it away. It feels like the bench to the left might be the insane person’s bed, where they would spend night after uncomfortable,...

You know, the paint on this door has peeled so artistically, I am not surprised that it obviously hasn’t been repainted recently. However, I think there may also be an ulterior motive for it – I can imagine the poor owner coming out, morning after morning, to find a whole bunch of dead birds on his steps, that had flown straight into the door! On the pragmatic side, at least the peeling paint helps distinguish it from the actual sky A beautiful shot that shows that so many different things get better with age, not only wine… Photo credits: Blue Door by Stephen Pougas