Brightly coloured red blue doorway yellow wall of Furlong's Bar in Passage East, Co. Waterford, Ireland

Traditional thatched cottage of lime mortar and whitewash with Laburnum tree, at Rosslare, Ireland

Traditional thatched cottage of lime mortar and whitewash with Laburnum tree at Rosslare, Ireland

Old Tythe Cottage front door at Happisburgh, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Traditional cottage front door and doorway, Stanton village, The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Cotswolds cottage and fenced front garden, Burford, Oxfordshire, UK

Typical cottage doorway and porch with aubretia shrubs in Stanton village, The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Cotswolds cottage and fenced front garden, Burford, Oxfordshire, UK

Front door in stable-door style on traditional whitewashed cottage near Quilty, County Clare, West of Ireland

Elegant seafront houses at Aberdyfi, Aberdovey, Snowdonia, Wales

Interior of a baroque church decorated with images of saints and walls with gold leaf ornaments in the historic city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil