Hey, door darlings, I just saw the movie “Bernard and Doris” on HBO about the life of American tobacco heiress Doris Duke (1912-1993) and when I googled her, because I didnt know a darn thing about her, I found out she was a door darling too. When she married in 1935, she went around the world for her honeymoon and started buying incredible things in every country. She picked up some amazing doors, too, and later had them brought to her Hawaiian home called “Shangri La” where she recreated rooms in Turkish, Morrocan, Indian or Persian style. My, what fun a few million dollars lets you have…..

http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/template_single.asp?style=browse&currentrecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=Collection%20is%20WEBDoors&searchstring=Collection/,/is/,/WEBDoors/,/false&pageId=6&newvalues=1&newstyle=single&newpage=single&newcurrentrecord=12

Sure would be lovely to have this sliding door out of marble, wouldnt it, perhaps between your bath and built-in closet or walk-in wardrobe, or leading toward the veranda?

Well, no matter how poor or rich we are, we all must walk through a lot of doors, and good old Doris, well, with her pocket book, doors just opened automatically. I wonder if that became boring for her with time. Dont forget to create you homes in your own style, so how about painting a fake door(trompe l´Oeil style) here and there, if you cant afford the one Doris got. It´s definately something I always wanted to do. I already tried it with some stencil on the terrace walls.

This is one was seen on http://www.trompe-l-oeil-art.com/trompe.html

Anything is possible and the illusion is for free

Oh and some people have blogged about the Duke style, go check it out.

http://thepeakofchic.blogspot.com/2007/06/doris-dukes-shangri-la.html

http://stylecourt.blogspot.com/2007/12/gifts-from-doris-duke.html