The door to nowhere!

I took my favorite rug off the floor last December because visiting dogs with nervous tummies did obscene things to it.


I hung it on the living room wall but it still needed something.


I decided it needed a door...a door to nowhere. Something I could hang art on. Something that would break up the busy pattern of the rug. Something for the eye to focus on. In other words, it needed the depth that layering a door on it would give.



So I varnished this green, chippy, scared door. It's over a hundred-years. I got it out of an old farmhouse in Brenham. It had a twin in red but I made that one into a lift-up coffee table for my daughter Code Woman (CW).

One day CW called me and said (and I quote here), "I've left (insert name of her husband here) but I took the coffee table with me!" She loves her chippy door/table as much as I do.


Isn't this better? Even Sally Sue thinks so as she naps on the back of the sofa. (Note Steven Walenta original photo on black washstand!)



This is the first painting that I've completed in many, many a year. I thought my new/old door was the perfect place to feature it.

Emily Interesting loves doors!

She loves new doors and she loves old doors.

But Emily Interesting especially loves old screen doors.

Emily thinks doors are blank canvases awaiting a special touch. And if there isn't a door where she thinks there should be, Emily puts one there...or rather she points and Harry Interesting puts one there.

My absolutely fav Interesting door is this old bread screen between the dining room and the sun porch, the most used and loved room in the house.

This is the regular bread door to the room.

And this door is between the entry hallway and the dining room. That's an old glass mailbox below the window, one of several in the house. OK, this door's my fav.


No, maybe it's this one. It's a screen door to the bathroom. Yes, the bathroom. (There's another door behind it for privacy.) And how about those wonderful chippy shutters? Are you beginning to get the idea that Harry Interesting knows a little about hanging doors?


The door next to the bathroom opens to a closet. A wonderful, original watercolor hangs in glory, the white surrounding door literally forcing a visitor to look closely at this beautiful piece of art.

But not all doors are solid. Here's the door to the living room, with a tease of the fantastic stained glass within. I was going to show you the windows Wednesday but I just can't wait that long...


The peace and light reflected by these full-length, exquisite windows calm the soul.


And next to the windows is St. Andrew, full-sized and exuding love and grace.

If you think you can't create such charm and style in your own home, you're mistaken. The Interesting house isn't in some fancy subdivision. It's on a quiet street in an older neighborhood.

And the house is small, possibly 1,700 square feet. Both Emily and Harry say they need a bigger home to house all their "stuff." You'll see what they mean Wednesday. Well, you'll see part of it. There's so much I can't show it all. You'll just have to drop by their house for tea.

But a bigger house wouldn't matter. The Interestings would find a way to fill it up with Interesting things!

Oh, Lordy, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Luckily, Wednesday is only two days away.