Very Artistic, Adorable Doors

Gary O' said:
I'm a door whore

I've made some

Not unhappy with 'em

Simple is good
Rip 2x4s into 2x2s
Glue
Screw
Stain

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The shop door was a bit more of an adventure

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I've always loved and appreciated your woodworking skills, Gary-O!

I was actually giving thought to you this morning... your cabin-building skills and all, and just knowing your style, I dedicate this front entrance door to you and I!

In ode to the classic and traditional portcullis!

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Fats Domino I Hear You Knocking​

"I Hear You Knocking" (or "I Hear You Knockin'") is a rhythm and blues song written by Dave Bartholomew and Earl King (using the pseudonym "Pearl King"). It was first recorded by New Orleans rhythm and blues artist Smiley Lewis in 1955. The song tells of the return of a former lover who is rebuffed and features prominent piano accompaniment.
 
Meanderer said:

Fats Domino I Hear You Knocking​

"I Hear You Knocking" (or "I Hear You Knockin'") is a rhythm and blues song written by Dave Bartholomew and Earl King (using the pseudonym "Pearl King"). It was first recorded by New Orleans rhythm and blues artist Smiley Lewis in 1955. The song tells of the return of a former lover who is rebuffed and features prominent piano accompaniment.
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..and this version from my teens....

 
Meanderer said:
Behind the Screen Door!
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Screen doors, especially the old-fashioned screen doors sure bring back memories for me, Meanderer.

My great grandparents had a farmhouse with old-fashioned wooden screen doors (front and back), and when all us us kids were really young, those screen doors were constantly being opened, which made a wonderful old squeaking sound, and when let go the spring would pull the door closed with a loud slap.

Of course it was summertime and as I sit typing this I can feel the warm sunshine on my skin, there's a breeze in the air, everyone is laughing and playing, and great grandmothers and grandfathers house is cool inside. There's ice cream for us kids, fresh drinking water sitting on the kitchen counter that we dish-up using a soup ladle, and lots of good food, all homemade with care.
 
More on No. 10 Downing Street:

No 10: Unlike the Great Pyramid of Giza, the world’s most famous jerry-built house wasn’t meant to last. It was a speculative venture overlooking St James’s Park, erected on soft soil and shallow foundations (after a 30-year planning dispute) by spy/turncoat/property developer, Sir George Downing (“a perfidious rogue” said Samuel Pepys). Even the brickwork’s mortar was painted on and No 10 was originally No 5. It subsumed two other properties, one of them a cottage, when George II gave it a makeover in 1735 to become a tied super-cottage for Robert Walpole, Britain’s first PM. It would be 20 years before any other PM lived there, because most aristos had bigger, better London houses of their own. Much repaired and modernised, few PMs have liked the house or its sunless street, literally overshadowed by the very pompous Foreign Office building across the road. At least No 10 still feels like a proper house, homely in a posh way, you could imagine watching Corrie over a curry in the white drawing room. And the big black door, fitted in the 1770s, makes for a great, photogenic brand.
 
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