The other day I was reminiscing about taking my kids on trips and posting photos of the doors we saw along the way. Whether it was Morocco or Guatemala, Mexico City or Madrid, I was always on the lookout for doors to share here. It has been at least a year since I’ve traveled more than a few hours’ drive from home, and I’ve really missed seeing beautiful and unusual doors.
Since we’ll be sticking close to home for the coming months, I’m working on a glamping project that involves old doors. I will share the results in a month or two, but last weekend I went to one of the bazaars outside of San Miguel de Allende, to see what I could find. I think we could all use a virtual road trip, so here are some photos from my shopping excursion. Enjoy!
At the bazaar, there were stacks of old doors in every size and design:
There were small “cantina” doors, and giant doors including a pair that looked like it came from a stable:
Many of the old doors had been recently painted as art pieces:
Another artisan was carving beautiful new designs on old door panels:
Lots of cool little details:
There was even a building made of old doors and windows:
Cool, right?? Don’t forget to share your travel photos of doors with me when you are able!
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Very nice
And Sunny also.
So your retirement thing, shipping bazaar doors to the states!
So now I’m curious…when your building is made of doors, how do you know which one to enter? I guess all of them? haha
True! That could create an egress (and access) problem! 🙂
– Lori
That is cool ! You don’t get to see such old doors often. The shape of the hinges in the form of butterflies , the intricate carving on the doors …
Some of those skills used to make such doors are already extinct …..
Beautiful, THANKS!
Cool doors. Good spot on the upside down hardware
In the U.S. most of those doors would have ended up on the fire pile instead of being reused and redesigned beautifully.
There’s an architectural salvage company near me that saves interesting hardware etc. from historically old buildings to resell. They have a whole giant storeroom full of doors…you could spend 6 hours in there sorting through all of them! Unfortunately I haven’t been able to properly look through them all but I bet there are some real beauties.
Their “toilet room” is interesting too, full of classic avocado bathroom fixtures and Easter colored ones also! It’s really such a cool place to visit. Almost like a museum.
Where is it?? I might have to take a road trip! 🙂
– Lori
Caravati’s of Richmond, Virginia! I think you’d really enjoy it!