Cottage composite doors.
Cottage composite door installations across Cornwall — real jobs, not stock photography.
The cottage gallery covers the ledge-and-brace and stable-door styles fitted on Cornish stone cottages, fishermen's terraces and rural properties from Mousehole to Polperro. These doors prioritise a softer, handcrafted look over the sharp lines of a modern flush door.
Colour plays a bigger role here than in most other categories — chartwell green, duck egg blue, cream and oak woodgrain finishes dominate, chosen specifically because they sit comfortably against granite, limewash and painted cob rather than because they're currently fashionable.
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Stable doors and split-leaf styles
A number of the installs in this gallery are stable doors — a split top and bottom leaf that lets the upper half open independently, which is both a genuinely Cornish detail on harbour cottages and a practical feature for anyone with dogs, children or a garden entrance used for ventilation on a warm day.
Colour choices that suit stone and render
Chartwell green and duck egg pick up the cool grey-green tones naturally present in granite and slate, which is why they read as settled rather than applied on cottages in Padstow, Fowey and Rock. Cream and golden oak woodgrain are the warmer alternative on limewashed or painted cob frontages.
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