I featured an unusual window in the small Cypriot village of Emba in this Monday Window post. At the same house, the door is worthy of a post, which should have been last week’s offering for Thursday doors, but as I was felled by a nasty summer cold, my Thursday doors didn’t happen.
Here’s the whole building, house, windows and doors. The photographs are edited ( thank you PicMonkey) as the day I went the shadows cast by the early morning sun made it difficult to see the detail.
The design of the house is typical of the Cypriot style from probably the 70’s or 80’s. I suspect it may have been designed for a well-to-do family at that time. The house is just away from the village centre and church, albeit it on the main road through the village.
It’s a fairly fanciful design for those times, the wrought-iron work is just so unusual and I hope it lasts. It doesn’t look promising, so at least I have made a record of this Emba house, part of my Cyprus view for many years.
Joining into Thursday Doors, pop on over and check out some more doors today…
Travels in the Middle East and beyond 
Lovely doors again, as usual, thanks for sharing!
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Georgie, thank you, I have always loved this unusual little house, fascinated by the iron-work, I’m glad I had a chance to share it really…
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the edited piece is nicely done
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Brenda, thank you, it took a while to get it right, but I think it was worth it…
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Such a beautiful old building, I hope it gets a bit of TLC soon. I use Picmonkey, too, it’s great. I even edit my book covers with it.
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Thanks Jean, once you find these apps they become irresitible!
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How graceful, this home. Is the water color yours too? Oh, I do so hope the owners can restore the structure that they and their heirs–or whomever– can enjoy it for hundreds of years to come.
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Thanks Kathryn….the watercolour is a clever phone app called Waterlogue,( although I do paint). I’m not sure that this building will last, it looks in a pretty bad state now rather sadly.
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Oh, clever! I’m going to check out that app. A new toy!
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Glad to see you’re feeling better. This one is lovely – thanks for sharing it 🙂
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Thanks, Norm, it was fun doing the editing, the original was a diagonal line of dark and light and no detail… I tried several times to get shots at better times but there was always a car parked across the front!
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Wonderful details!
janet
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Thank you, Janet, I’ve always loved this little house in this small village in the middle of nowhere and it’s lovely to be able to share the work that someone designed a long time ago…
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The scalloped arches and iron work on the door and windows are lovely! I hope they last too.
I like the picmonkey app! I thought you had painted a watercolor of the house yourself!
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Thank you. Actually, the watercolour is another phone app called Waterlogue, I put the header photo in last minute and forgot to add that App name!
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The close up of the door was awesome.
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Thank you, it’s pretty unusual, worth recording…
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What a gorgeous door…
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Thank you, I love it too, it just seems unique…
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I like the close up and details to the door.
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Thanks, Jaqueline, it’s been one of my favourite houses in this village since I moved to Cyprus, I lived in a village up the road and passed this house every day… I’ve seen the family that lived there and now I see it seems to be unoccupied and I wonder whether it will be bulldozed to build a new modern house, it’s a prime village location..who knows, I’m glad I caught it before it’s too late…
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