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Earnest Door Appreciation Society
backdoorfreaks · est. 2026

Earnest Door Appreciation Society — a catalog of literal back doors

Door of the day

The Levittown Aluminum

Storm door · 1953 · Levittown, New York (postwar tract housing)

The Levittown Aluminum is the door the Society had to include even though it is not, by traditional metrics, a good door. It is a first-generation 1953 aluminum storm door, mass-produced for the Levittown tract — the suburb that invented the American suburb. The frame is thin. The hardware is stamped. The glass is just glass. It is not a craft object. But it is the door that landed on three million houses between 1953 and 1965, and the Society's mission is to appreciate doors as they are, not only as we wish them to be.

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About the Society

The Earnest Door Appreciation Society catalogs, restores, and writes about literal back doors — the kind you walk through every day. Architectural back doors, screen doors, French doors, sliding doors, Dutch doors, pocket doors, barn doors. We do not have opinions about other meanings of the phrase. We have opinions about hinges, mesh, weatherstripping, and the proper way to square a rough opening.

The Collection currently includes 18 doors. The Practical Guides currently number 5, with more on the way.

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From the Photo Archive

A bronze hand-shaped door knocker on a black lacquered raised-panel door
A hand-shaped knocker on a lacquered raised-panel door. The Society admires a door that asks you to shake hands before entering. · 2026
A view from a dark room through an open doorway to a sunlit yard with grass and trees
An open doorway framing a sunlit yard. A door is at its best when it is open and there is grass on the other side. · 2011
A houseboat with a red door moored in a marina among motor yachts
A red door on a houseboat moored among motor yachts. On a boat the back door and the front door are often the same door, and this one carries both jobs well. · 2011
A painted mural of a colourful house with a blue door crossed by a purple X brace
A painted door on a painted house, blue with a purple X brace. Even a mural knows a door needs bracing. · 2006
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Practical Guides

The Society publishes home-improvement guides written by people who actually care about doors. Real measurements, real techniques, no affiliate links.