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What Door is the right for your Art Deco House?

Art Deco  is a visual arts style that first made its appearance in France following World War I and then spread internationally between the 1920sand 1940s. After World War II, it grew less and less popular. Art Deco or Deco is a style that brings together standard craft motifs and marries them with a Machine Age look and use of materials. The style is often recognized by vibrant colors, bold geometry and lavish ornamentation.

ArtDeco Homes

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Cape Cod Style & It's Doors!

A Cape Cod cottage is a housing style that first originated in New England back in the 17th century. This type of housing style is usually identified with the broad frame building, steep pitched roofs with end gables, larger chimneys as well as very little use of ornaments. Traditional Cape Cod house styles are quite simple, consisting of symmetrically designed central front doors, which are encompassed by a couple of multi- paned windows on either side.  The houses were designed to withstand the stormy weather of the coast of Massachusetts, and most designs still draw from their colonial counterparts.

Cape Cod Style

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