Thursday Doors 25 June • A Place In The Sun
In cities like the Hague only a few are blessed with place outside where they can sit in the sun. As such, everybody makes the most of it. Even if it means bending the rules a little bit and putting seats outside on the pavement (which, needless to say, is not their property) next to their front door. Fortunately, no one seems to care and the authorities seem to condone it.
For Norm’s Thursday Doors 25 June.
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Thursday Doors 18 June • A Few Doors In The Same Street
In the previous post all the featured doors are located in the same street. I thought it would be fun to continue that theme.
These are largely the same doors, safe for the glass-in-lead decorations.
For Norm’s Thursday Doors 18 June.
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Thursday Doors 11 June • A Few Steps To The Front Door
Almost all of the doors in Holland’s inner-cites are directly on the sidewalk. Like in this post, or the example below.
But some lucky bastards have the luxury of having to take a few steps towards the front door.
But as these photos show, the Dutch do not really know how to appreciate those few extra steps to their front door.
A Few Steps To The Front Door for Norm‘s Thursday Doors 11 June.
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Thursday Doors 4 June • Garage Doors
When I was much younger, one of my dreams was to once own a building with a garage as the ground floor. Being the city-slicker I am, this obviously had to be somewhere downtown. A place where I could tinker on my old-timers and could park my daily car. Obviously, while these houses do exist, they are hard to come by. And when you do find one, they’re generally hideously looking. Like some of these in The Hague:
But there are notable exceptions…
Especially in another town where I wouldn’t mind living, Cadaquès, Catalunia. Somehow the Spaniards have understood how to incorporate on-site garage doors in an aesthetically interesting way.
Garage Doors for Norm‘s Thursday Doors 4 June.
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Thursday Doors 28 May • Short Doors
My previous posts mainly featured doors of a normal height, i.e. 2 to 2.10 meters, or some 6.6 – 6.9 foot. While the below doors may seem normal at first glance, they stand barely 1.80 meters or 5.9 foot tall. Short enough to give you a blinding headache if you’re not careful.
These short doors are usually situated on street level, and are the entrance to the souterrain (basement) which in the ‘old’ days was generally where the servants were housed. With today’s housing shortage they are now usually occupied by couples starting out.
Short Doors for Norm‘s Thursday Doors.
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Thursday Doors 21 May • Making Sense For The Postman
In one of my previous posts I had focused on the number of doorbells per door, as an indication of the number of singles, couples or families living behind that door. But how does the postman make any sense of that?
One door, one name, one doorbell and one letterbox. Not much can go wrong here… so you think. Unless you’ve got an illiterate postman, or one one who doesn’t give a s***. Every year I receive dozens of letters that are clearly addressed to someone else. With a different address and a different zip-code. I stopped my mailman twice to confront him about it, quite nicely that is. At first. The grumpy bastard just didn’t give me any indication he gave a flying f***! Or maybe he was just masking his illiteracy. Or maybe both.
One thing I grant him, things can become a bit confusing, like in the above case. Which letterbox to use for #82? Or does it even matter?
My postman isn’t the only one struggling. Delivery guys (girls) of door-to-door advertising folders and door-to-door weeklies have a hard time knowing what to deliver where. Hence the stickers you see
Making Sense For The Postman for Norm‘s Thursday Doors 21 May.
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Have you ever wondered, like me, what’s behind that door browsing through all the entries into Norm’s Thursday Doors challenge? In the western world we tend to keep our front doors firmly shut for a multitude of reasons. Not so in Cuba…
…where people tend to use their doorway to sell flowers for instance
…where people tend to leave their front door ajar
…or have no front door at all
These photos are from my archive and were taken on a road trip through Cuba in 2016
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This Clock Door is my entry into Norm’s Thursday Doors challenge.
Over the past few months that I’ve been door-hunting, this is the only one with a large clock on top that I’ve come across. The clock has stopped working however, which is a shame. Took this photo at noon, this January.
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One Door, Many Bells • Thursday Doors
For as long as anyone can remember there has been a housing shortage in the Netherlands. Even, or should I say especially, today. We’re short 80,000 affordable houses for rent, the so-called social rentals (sociale huurwoningen), primarily for young, starting families and couples.
Most of the houses behind the doors I’ve been showing were built for occupancy by one (affluent) family (and their servants). The family entrance usually consists of one, main front door. The servants’ door was usually on souterrain/basement level or a side-/back-entrance.
One way of solving this problem is to split up the 3- and 4-story houses into 3 or 4 different apartments, where each one would fit a starters-family. There are more than a few house-owners have converted their house(s) into separate apartments per floor. The front door then is the communal entrance.
So far, it makes a lot of sense. Divvy up a house into maximum of 1 apartment per floor. But take a look at the following:
One Door, Many Bells for Norm’s Thursday Doors.
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