A while back you all help me to get over my fear of color outside my home and paint my front door orange. It is the color of a terra cotta container. It is not extremely bold but this is a 30+ year old neighborhood and everyone either has a white or black front door. There are very few red front doors and only one other door with color, bright green, in the neighborhood. I love my front door now!
We own a rental house and my parents own a home on our street. We want to also paint the front doors a fun color. What would you suggest?
As a side note I am still uploading pics via tinypic. Is there any way to do this easier?
I always get stumped on doors for houses that don't really have color. I feel like you can slap on any color because there's nothing it needs to relate to.
always get stumped on doors for houses that don't really have color. I feel like you can slap on any color because there's nothing it needs to relate to.
Exactly. Love the orange!
I am partial to blue doors. I prefer the deeper shades, but any aqua/teal/turquoise always gets my attention.
The colonial is pretty staid, I'd probably do a Talbot red. My neighbor has similar brick and black shutters, her front door is sort of Air Force blue.
I could see teal on the other house, or perhaps lemon or orchid.
always get stumped on doors for houses that don't really have color. I feel like you can slap on any color because there's nothing it needs to relate to.
Exactly. Love the orange!
I am partial to blue doors. I prefer the deeper shades, but any aqua/teal/turquoise always gets my attention.
Ditto, I love blue doors. We had a blue door on our old house and loved it. I looks like your 2nd house pic is gray, which I think would be fantastic with blue.
For the house with the columns and the brick, I would add teal or deep hunter gree to the door to play up the brick by picking a color nearly oppposite on the color wheel.
For the modified ranch, any color would work. What is a fun color that you love? The orchid suggested by auntie would be pretty.
Thank you all! I am extremely happy with my orange door.
The colors I had in mind for the gray ranch were a deep purple, mustard or celery green. It is the rental and we have long term tenants in there. Think I should ask their opinion before I paint?
The brick is my parents (they just closed last week and are in the process of fixing the inside). I was thinking a light teal or a deep gray. The deep blue doors that I saw online really jumped at me also but I thought that would be a no go with the black shutters.