a week of living colourfully: red

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.

Comments

[Emma]

I am inextricably drawn to some red Swedish Hasbeens.

[Janet]

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.

[Sally]

I love No. 269 in Oxford. what a superb door!

[Lisa G.]

Your camera records the reds very nicely.

[Marian]

Just read your blog and am currently deciding on door colour for my new front door. It is going to have to be red.

[Zoe]

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.

[nbm]

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.

[carmelita white]

I want to live at 269 with the delicious red door.

[Lydia]

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...