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A less beautiful but very typical Lisbon door. It has the small figa knocker common in Portugal and Spain. The "Correio" mail slots, the decorative wrought iron security grill with glazed glass (or maybe a board or something solid), and the heavy build up of paint layers complete the look!

Moi - I want to buy the Tactic Games version of Mölkky, in the wooden carrying box. I'm in the US, and that version seems to be available only on Amazon for $182! I can see from search results that it ordinarily has been priced more like $40 to $60. I would prefer not to buy one of the copycat versions, or to buy a version that comes in a nylon or plastic bag.

Does anyone have a source for in-stock versions like the one pictured here? I have not found one yet...still searching.

If not, what other brand/version is high quality at a more reasonable price than $180+?

Kiitos!

Kind of speaks for itself! This could have been a plain, gray, metal slatted security door. Instead it's a door-sized work of art!

So many beautiful Lisbon doors in this sub, I thought I'd add one.

I love the worn out and patched up limestone door jamb, but can we talk about the tiles? Azulejos! Classic blue/yellow/green/white color combo, and the matching of the cube pattern with the floral tiles is also really common. Love it.

Flew from Pittsburgh to Lancaster a few years ago, was the only passenger on a Cessna 208 Caravan...so fun!

This unassuming entrance gives visitors access to a beautiful chapel, and three marble map walls that tell the story of American troops who fought and died in this region in WWII. The cemetery (in Neuville-en-Condroz) is the final resting place of almost 5,400 U.S. military killed in action - in the skies and on the ground - in Belgium. This website (with a two-minute video) gives a quick look at the beautiful but sobering cemetery grounds and the Memorial building. It's a fitting monument to a prodigious sacrifice.

https://www.abmc.gov/Ardennes

Nothing spectacular, but the color combos and simplicity made me want to take a photo.

We were circling Tucson, waiting for a line of storms to clear out before we could make our approach and landing. I saw this rainbow beneath the storm clouds and snapped a photo with my iPhone. Unretouched. I've never seen anything like it!

This early 20th century building is in the central historic district in Trondheim. The signs are all vintage enamel/porcelain advertising signs, related to bicycles. I looked them up:

Monark Cyklar (upper left red triangle) was a Swedish bike manufacturer.

Jonas Øglænd / DBS (round sign, top right). Jonas Øglænd was a major Norwegian bicycle manufacturer (DBS was for "Den Beste Sykkel" = "The Best Bicycle").

Codan Cykledæk (yellow sign on door). Danish bike tires, "Best quality, built like a car tire."

Wiklunds, maybe Swedish, with a guy riding his bike in the snow.

"CF" emblem (small square sign bottom left) maybe a Danish cycling federation or club.

Dimling's had been closed for 60 years when this photo was taken. But the sign is in a narrow alley that is completely sheltered from weather and sunlight, and the sign endures.

I know a lot of the most popular photos here are fantastically fancy Art Nouveau works of art - but I hope others find simple, functional doors beautiful in their own way (as I do).

This root cellar is on a New England working farm that been in operation since the 1700s. Vegetables, dairy, anything perishable could be stored in there, since the stone walls keep the inside temperature pretty steady all year.

The wooden door is very basic. Batten-style, with wide planks connected by cross battens and iron strap-hinges.

There's a gorgeous salt-water marsh behind those tall reeds growing all around in the autumn light.

This is Niguliste Kirik (St Nicholas Lutheran Church) in Tallinn, Estonia. This is one of the medieval side-chapels, not the big main entrance. This part of the church was remodeled and doesn't have the main structure's medieval/Gothic vibe. But it's so pretty.

The stone portal is way more ornate than the oak doors themselves, and there are mascarons at the bottom of each column (sort like the one above the Belgian carriage house doors I posted a few days ago). These are definitely more in the "protective" mode, to keep away the evil spirits etc.

Those googly-eye oculus-style windows are pretty modern (maybe 20th century?) and really contrast with the Renaissance stone work on the door frame itself.

The church is a museum now and also hosts concerts. Totally worth a visit!

This beautiful fortress on a Norwegian hilltop was built in the late 1600s. Now it's a nice museum with a cozy cafe for those cold Nordic winter days. This very cool door in one of the outer walls looks like it's made out of metal in this photo (and it does have iron hardware) but the door itself is wood (oak, I would guess). The space behind it was probably a powder magazine, or other storage.

This little turf-roofed building is on a traditional farm in South Iceland. Probably a shed for tools or equipment. The door isn't exactly a work of art, but the little windows above the door were interesting. In the 19th century tenant farmers didn't have money to spend on expensive glass for their sheds, so these windows were probably added later as a source of light for the interior. The novel INDEPENDENT PEOPLE by Halldor Laxness portrays the harsh life on these farms very dramatically - I highly recommend it!

This doorway on this late Victorian/early Edwardian home (ca. 1900?) in a village in Surrey, England looks period, but it's a modern composite replacement door. Sort of a mix of styles...Victorian (arched fanlight, hardware, letter slot) and Georgian (panel arrangement, overall simplicity). Architectural purists would complain, but I think it looks fine. Love the cobalt blue paint and the gauged brick arch above!

This is how we did it before Google Maps, kids! For scale, the floorboards in the second photo are 11 inches wide.

Found this in among some family car repair records from the 1990s.