I thought I might be overdue for another review of the photo library looking for random finds that haven’t been shared. I found a few.
I wish that I had the creative gene to image a unique outer *door* like this one. It’s like wearing a pretty necklace over a simple unadorned dress.
Not far down the street was this lovely gate. I think I was equally attracted to the cart behind it which was sporting an eclectic little garden. I couldn’t tell if it was a random collection of plants or not, but decided it was too pretty to be unintentional.
I’ve walked up and down the streets of the financial district at least a million times over the years, but I’d never noticed this side door to the CIBC building (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce).
The doors themselves are ordinary, but they are dressed in a most spectacular way.
In case you’re wondering about the main entrance, the doors there are also ordinary, but they too are decked out in finery.
I think I’ve found the perfect little retirement cottage near the lake. It even has a perfect little cottage door.
I love everything about it, from its baby turret and wraparound veranda, to its location on the edge of Kew Gardens. Too bad it’s being used as a local museum.
This has been another episode of Thursday Doors – a weekly photo feature directed by Norm Frampton at Norm 2.0.
Excellent tips. This is very informative! I appreciate your hard work.
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Love the photos. Great finds. I will be looking at all the doors in the financial district differently from now on.
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aha! Once you start looking a doors, you will be hooked 🙂
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Great finds! I love that little cottage too.
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Thanks Amy 🙂
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I love that little cottage! The other doors are definitely well dressed.
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That little cottage has been a favourite. If I did live there, I think I would get a lot of company 😉
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My favorite house looks so cozy and homey, “your” retirement home! May I come visit you and your husband, Joanne? 😉
The formal doors with braiding around the arch on side door and the layers of details in the front door on same building are gorgeous.
The decorated door is so aptly described with the bejeweled look and the cart behind the flying dragons gate add so much to their appearance.
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Thanks Robin 🙂
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You’re welcome! 🏡
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Lovely photographs as always! Love the “little” retirement cottage. I am sure the Museum won’t mind having you live there given how you love old things!! 🙂 Maybe you could become their official photographer.
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Thank you … and I promise I would do a really good job too 🙂
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You do manage to find the neatest looking doors, Joanne, and that cottage has so much character. I’m quite sure that I’d be happy living there.
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Thanks Laurie. Sometimes I think the doors seem to find me 🙂
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Maybe you can become the live in curator for that museum? It’s darling!
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Up until fairly recently, the Master Gardener for the attached Kew Gardens lived in that cottage. I’m not sure why that practice was discontinued. I’m sure it was someone’s idea of cost cutting.
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That first metal gate was awesome and so unique…your description was spot on. And regarding your retirement cottage? It would be perfect if only you wouldn’t have so many guests rifling through…but they would be paying you, yes?
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The problem with paying guests is they would feel an entitlement to hang around. I have a large personal space and that simply wouldn’t do!
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Nice collection, and I really like the first one with the outer gate. I have never seen a door like that, and I really, really like it.
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Isn’t it different? It’s such a simple idea, but packs a big wow factor 🙂
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Oh, yes, these are spectacular! ❤ Happy retirement in that cottage. 😉
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Oh, I wish!!
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Love, love, love the retirement cottage/museum. I would be totally happy living in that house, surrounded by a flower garden and the lake. Thanks for sharing!
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It would work for me too. I’d share 😉
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I love the ‘door dressings’ and your ‘little retirement cottage’! If you move into that ‘cottage’ expect ALL of your readers to drop by for tea!
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… and we can sit outside on the veranda drinking tea …. of the Long Island Iced variety 😉
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So much beauty and intricacy if we just go on the look for it. Always fun to go out wandering with you Joanne. Lets’ plan to move into the turret house. I don’t think the museum would mind would they?
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We’ll be as quiet as mice 😉
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Well I’m very quiet. Just ask Dave. 🙂
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bwahahaha!! I don’t have to … I’ve met you 😀
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Oh yes that’s right. Possibly that was my twin sister. 🙂
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😀
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That last cottage is so, so beautiful – straight out of a fairytale.
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It’s true. You’d almost wonder if it was made of candy 😉
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Nice collection Joanne. That first one sure is quirky, And then there’s that cottage/museum: oh gosh, oh golly, oh my, is that ever beautiful!
Nice finds 🙂
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I know! I WANT that cottage !!!
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The first door/gate is lovely!
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Isn’t it cute?!! I love the creative mind that came up with that little gem.
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You have a great eye for these things!
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Oh, thanks Marissa. Maybe I do have a secret talent after all 🙂
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Absolutely! Always love your pics!
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🙂 🙂
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The first gate is pretty, and the spring on the right side is ingenious! I LOVE your capture of that large hall! I know – I often have this on Thurs. – of places where you often have been – so many places, but didn’t photograph the things I saw.
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Thanks! That big spring caught my eye too – it is such an ingenious flirtation of a door 🙂
I’m rather proud of that photo through the window capturing the inside hall. I couldn’t believe it actually turned out! Sometimes I get lucky 🙂
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You can be proud -the height and spaciousness really come out, especially great among non-professional photographers:):)
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🙂 🙂
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Oh my goodness, Joanne. I was going to talk about how much I liked the “rope” molding around that elaborate entrance, but then – the – cottage. Wow! that is such a great find. There are so many good things going on in that place, it’s hard to start. I love the curves!
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You and me both! Architecture in general is made up of so many straight lines and corners. I think that’s why the rounded features are so attractive to our eye.
But that cottage!!! Oh yes, I could happily make that my home ❤
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I think you could move into the museum as long as you don’t mind being on display.
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hehehe! My first reaction was to say I could do that. Then the other side of my brain kicked in and reminded me that I have a HUGE personal space. It makes life in the city challenging at the best of times!
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I used to want to live in a city. As an idealistic college student, I thought I could live in the “slums” and change the world. I look back and laugh at myself. I have never lived in a city and I don’t want to give up my space. Still, that house is cute.
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I come from a very small town, but at this point I’ve lived more years in a very large city. I’d like to believe I could go back to a small town again … but Husband couldn’t. He’s a city boy to the core and would DIE in a small town setting.
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There’s a song about dying in a small town. I wouldn’t mind the convenience of being able to walk places which I had in the suburbs.
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I live in a suburb and can’t walk anywhere. You can’t live here comfortably without a car
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When I was growing up I could walk to school, a restaurant, and a grocery store. Now I have to walk 4 miles to get off my road. I can walk to friends’ houses, but my goal is to walk to the library (probably 6 miles, 2 on major highway), but a grocery store would be apocalyptic situation only.
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Fabulous! I love the garden behind the gate. And I have never seen anything like that first one. How neat is that? And of course, the others are grand — particularly with that cross of interior light and reflection! Great doors 🙂
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That first one stopped me dead in my tracks as I was walking by. OMG – it is all kinds of wonderful.
I see so many wonderful things – like the garden in the trolley – that I would love to duplicate but I don’t have the house or yard for it … so I just have to love it for looking wonderful where I find it 🙂
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Some things are like that. Sometimes I get overwhelmed at the beauty and creativity of people — that garden behind the gate qualifies — what a great use of not-green-space!
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We’re on the same page 🙂
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Beautiful photos again, Joanne.
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Thank you 🙂
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Gorgeous cottage; I can see why you’d like it! I love the idea of a Canadian Imperial Bank. Sounds very grand. Perhaps Canada needs to start an empire; you could colonise your southern neighbour perhaps?
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{choke!} THAT would be one very audacious goal!! Not to mention ill-advised. They have guns. A LOT of them 😉
I’ve never thought of it before, but you’re right. CIBC does have a really grand name! I’m willing to bet that if you asked 10 Canadians under the age of 30, less than half of them would know what CIBC actually stands for.
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… not to mention a loose cannon!
It’s funny how we get so used to acronyms that we forget (or never know what they originally stood for). We used to have ASB (Auckland Savings Bank), which over years has morphed into something Australian-owned and now called ASB Bank. I must be getting old, but it irritates me every time I hear someone say that. 🙂 Ah, first world problems.
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The Kew Williams cottage is adorable! I’d love to live there. 😋
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You would have to fight me for it first 😉
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Can I just live on the porch then? 😉
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Oh, alright. I’ll share 🙂
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I’ll tend the garden for rent! 😉
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Deal!
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Wonderful doors and gates! That first one is a real gem… don’t you love that true artists help to make our world more beautiful? Maybe we need to start a “Wednesday Windows” so we can share and enjoy the gorgeous windows that often accompany lovely doors 🙂
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So true! Windows and statues and bridges and ….
Actually, come to think of it, I think there is a weekly feature of Monday Windows but I don’t know who the host is.
I am truly in awe of the creative mind. I don’t have one – I’m not even particularly good at imitation – but the true artist has my deepest respect.
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Oh, yes: windows and statues and bridges… and cemeteries. Btw, I’m going to have a cemetery post soon that you may like…
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ooo – I’ll be looking for it 🙂
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I loved the reflections in the windows of the doors at the bank, as well as their wonderful entries.
That cottage is lovely!
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It’s funny that I can never predict which photos are going to capture the most attention. In this case it’s the cottage.
I added it at the last minute because I’ve sat on this photo for months and I think it’s cute. I had no idea so many people would share my opinion 🙂
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Great mixture of Doors and gates, I’m very partial to good gate. As for a house with a turret, would love to live in one. :>)
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Turrets rule! Add in a great gate, and it would be perfection 😉
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I’ve never seen anything like the first photo. Kind of funky cool. The last photo of the amazing cottage is beautiful. Such a stylish residence, today and in its day.
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It’s true that some places seem to be timeless. That little cottage would be one of them.
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The architecture there is so interesting! I like the details. And that cottage is so pretty… forget the museum, you should live there 🙂
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I agree – sadly I don’t think it’s going to improve my bargaining position with the museum though 😉
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Love the iron piece in front of the first red door! Fabulous!
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It is so different!! Doesn’t it immediately cause you to start thinking about where you could replicate an idea like that? 😉
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That is the perfect little cottage. I could like there easy. 😀 Lovely photos, Joanne. I don’t think you’re ever going to run out of doors!
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Perhaps one day I’ll get jaded and think that there is no longer a door worthy of my attention.
Hope it doesn’t happen any time soon.
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Superb! Great set. Well done, Joanne.
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Thanks 🙂
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That little cottage is so cute!
I guess what I’ve learnt from your post this week is that the right adornments and/or surroundings can make any door quite special 😉
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I’m coming to the same conclusion 🙂
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I do love peeking inside garden gates. These are wonderful! I say the museum has got to go–you definitely need that little house!
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Too bad majority can’t rule here. I’ve got momentum on my side 🙂
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What a nice collection of interesting doors. I love the first one the most. I haven’t seen anything like it before.
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Isn’t it the cutest?! I love the imaginative mind that can take ordinary things and use them in a strikingly different way.
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Oh, yes! Wonderful!
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Thanks 🙂
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Love. Them. All. Every last detail. Happy Thursday!
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Happy Thursday to you too, Maggie. Hoping for a nice rain-free day. It might be a stretch, but would be wonderful for a change!
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Hope you get your wishes answered. Up here? More rain. *sigh*
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It sure doesn’t feel like June
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