Typical French window with lace curtain and pelmet, window box and wooden shutters, Normandy, France

Oak door at Chateau du Rivau, 15th and 16th Century Renaissance architecture, near Chinon in the Loire Valley, France

For Sale sign on period property at Serigny in the Loire Valley, France

Rose Cottage at Helston on the Helford Estuary, Cornwall, England, UK

Stylish front door of Georgian townhouse with fanlight window in Limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland

Traditional French window lace curtains shutters window boxes in picturesque Sarlat, Dordogne, France

Lavender bush and traditional cottage entrance in the Cotswolds village of Bledington, Oxfordshire, UK

Traditional French lock in a doorway in quaint town of Castelmoron d'Albret in Bordeaux region, Gironde, France

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

Blacksmith, Gloucester shire, England