Thought you might like to see some of the doors in our house after some of the comments on the previous post! All our doors (and beams for that matter) were painted cream and black when we moved in. We had them all stripped back to the original wood and it has completely changed the whole look of our house. Farmhouses tend to be dark anyway so when the beams are painted black as well, the whole feeling can be very oppressive! This door has some wonderful woodworm workings on one side - inactive thankfully, but I love the look that it gives to the house. The fluffy tabby is Jasper, one of my 3 cats...
This is one of our bedroom doors, you can just see a piece of string hanging down just above the door handle, you have to pull this to get in! It lifts up the latch on the inside. A lot of our doors are like this and original to the house. The bright bead necklace you can see on the newel post was made for me by my youngest son when he was 4, he is now 19 and it is one of my most treasured possessions...
