Barn doors in apartment
Two doors in an elegant and modern (with that warm touch of wooden floors and ceiling beams) Bologna apartment.
One in front of the other, like a side scene, bringing from the entrance to the parents’ bedroom and in another step into the walk-in closet.
Both of them in a soft light blue called in italian “carta da zucchero” (literally “sugar paper”, name earned because until about the mid-1900s, sugar was sold by weight, wrapped in a card of this characteristic blue color. It appears that the coloring served to mask any stains or discoloration due to the craft manufacturing process) even if the first one had to be more elegant and similar to the other doors of the house, while the second one, in fact a back door, could be more similar to a barn door.
So I used my recovered wood, with all its imperfections, but I colored them both with a strong, a little glossy water enamel color, as the old country doors were colored, to prevent them from aging and ruin.
The tracks are entirely handmade, in strong iron, and colored in oven with a bright white, to merge them with the walls and give more strength to the doors.
Here some picture of the finished work, and a picture of a sugar loaf wrapped in the paper: