Inspired by wonderful titles such as A Year of Living Dangerously and a Year of Reading Proust, I'm doing A Week of Living Colourfully.
Using Instagram, has for some reason, made me see red (in a good way). Yesterday I noticed cherry reds in dahlias, treacle tins and real cherries, but I can tell from the number of red doors amongst my photos, that I've also been drawn to more bright, cheerful, welcoming reds that you can't walk past without noticing.
In Oxford (top) and Brooklyn,
Preston,
Manchester,
Chichester,
and Hull, there are bright red doors which prove that living colourfully isn't difficult.
I am inextricably drawn to some red Swedish Hasbeens.
Posted by: Emma | June 16, 2014 at 13:50
There is also The Year of Reading Dangerously; how fifty books saved my life, by Andy Miller
(available here http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Year-Reading-Dangerously-Fifty/dp/0007255756.) It even has some red on the cover.
Posted by: Janet | June 16, 2014 at 16:19
I love No. 269 in Oxford. what a superb door!
Posted by: Sally | June 16, 2014 at 19:54
Your camera records the reds very nicely.
Posted by: Lisa G. | June 16, 2014 at 21:26
Just read your blog and am currently deciding on door colour for my new front door. It is going to have to be red.
Posted by: Marian | June 17, 2014 at 10:29
We have a very very bright red door! We're right on Eton High St and it is so bright and cheerful. The chemist across the street has a Klein blue frontage and the colours are so zingy when coming home on a wet November afternoon.
Posted by: Zoe | June 17, 2014 at 10:45
I know that red Brooklyn door. Until I saw the caption I was ready to be amazed that there was one so similar somewhere in England.
Posted by: nbm | June 18, 2014 at 01:40
I want to live at 269 with the delicious red door.
Posted by: carmelita white | June 18, 2014 at 19:46
Red - a colour to bring you up short! Watch out, take care, here I am sort of colour. A glossy red front door is certainly very smart focussing your attention as you enter...
Posted by: Lydia | June 23, 2014 at 01:57