Black interior doors?

[sailorgray]

Anyone do it? Have pics? What color black did you use?

[nomad100]

Daniel on Manhattan Nest painted the doors in his apartment black. They look fabulous. He used BM Onyx.

manhattan-nest.com/2011/11/03/black-doors/

[sailorgray]

Sept 18, 2014 7:43:32 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

Daniel on Manhattan Nest painted the doors in his apartment black. They look fabulous. He used BM Onyx.

manhattan-nest.com/2011/11/03/black-doors/

Beautiful!! Thanks!! This is the pic I am using as inspiration as it is similar to my kitchen minus all of the stuff on the wall.  Surprisingly, my h is all in
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[bunnymendelbaum]

We did at our old house. (Pretty sure the new owners repainted them white - ha!)

The color was likey bm midnight summer. 

[policegirl402]

I did it and love it! Not the best pic though... Sorry.

[policegirl402]

Why can't I post pics anymore? For the last few weeks, i haven't been able to. Anyone know why?

[cjeanette]

I did in a small hallway that is all doors. It was a way to add interest but not have to paint the walls which were a boring beige. I love the look.

[bunnies]

I love the way it looks, but have never done it.

[Laura Palmer]

We did the exterior of our powder room door (the only door on our main house level). I was so nervous but LOVE it. I wish I had the guts to do them all black.

Sorry, no picture. If I remember I'll take one later.

[menrandes]

I love the look of the black doors, but haven't done them myself. All of our interior doors need to be replaced anyway honestly, so maybe I'll look into black doors!

[sailorgray]

Thanks, ladies! I want to do them all in the house (9 total), but my H doesn't want to do all of that painting. We already have to paint one on the 2nd floor, so why not add a few more, right? cjeanette did it make your hallway feel smaller? Our house is small and I worry it may make it feel closed in.

[cjeanette]

Sept 18, 2014 14:06:37 GMT -5 sailorgray said:

Thanks, ladies! I want to do them all in the house (9 total), but my H doesn't want to do all of that painting. We already have to paint one on the 2nd floor, so why not add a few more, right? cjeanette did it make your hallway feel smaller? Our house is small and I worry it may make it feel closed in.

No, it just added more interest.  I wish I had a picture.  It's a small area so hard to get a camera in there!

[kellikans]

I painted ours Martha Stewart Francesca.

[kath16]

Not gonna lie, I cringed at the first thought of this but I LOVE LOVE LOVE everyone's photos. I did this to kellikans black bedroom, too. I need to get over my fear of black paint apparently!

[sailorgray]

Sept 19, 2014 11:00:34 GMT -5 kath16 said:

Not gonna lie, I cringed at the first thought of this but I LOVE LOVE LOVE everyone's photos. I did this to kellikans black bedroom, too. I need to get over my fear of black paint apparently!

When I first suggested it to my H, he looked at me like I was crazy, but then you see it and it's beautiful.

bunny and Kellkans did it right. Gorgeous!?

[pitterwoo]

Sept 18, 2014 12:19:55 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

I did in a small hallway that is all doors. It was a way to add interest but not have to paint the walls which were a boring beige. I love the look.

Ditto this, except my doors are navy blue

[lavender444]

I painted all our interior doors black, too. I love them. We have these glass doors upstairs. The black made them look so much better.

Eta-used Benjamin Moore Advance. The color is Black. Thank you, Ben Moore for making a good solid black that just called black. 





Before and after of front door and coat closet

[sailorgray]

Wow, lavender, those are beautiful! My h isn't too into painting the upstairs doors. I'll have to show him these pics.

[buppy]

Not black but we did a really dark espresso stain on all our doors as well as windows, all with white trim. I love it! Since there's lots of door pics already, here are just the windows (forgive the construction mess). 
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[policegirl402]

Sept 18, 2014 22:05:19 GMT -5 kellikans said:

I painted ours Martha Stewart Francesca.

This looks great!!

[policegirl402]

Sept 18, 2014 9:50:32 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

We did at our old house. (Pretty sure the new owners repainted them white - ha!)

The color was likey bm midnight summer. 

The entire room is amazing but I do love the black!

[policegirl402]

Sept 19, 2014 15:15:42 GMT -5 lavender444 said:

I painted all our interior doors black, too. I love them. We have these glass doors upstairs. The black made them look so much better.

Eta-used Benjamin Moore Advance. The color is Black. Thank you, Ben Moore for making a good solid black that just called black. 





Before and after of front door and coat closet

What a difference the black makes... Great job!

[r]

I'll put my question here since it fits the theme.

I love black or dark grey interior doors. I have never personally done it. I was thinking about it but we made the decision to go with oil rubbed bronze door knobs and hinges. I love love the look of that lol. When we first installed them I kept going over to admire it. My question is ... can you do black doors with the black knobs and hinges? I thought about doing a charcoal grey but my entire first floor going up to second floor hallway is Graceful Gray.. too much monotone in that scheme lol. So should I stick with a bright white to contrast the orb knobs and hinges or be daring and go with the contrast of the black door with black hardware vs grey walls.

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I've been wanting to do this for a while, but can't get my husband on board.

[buppy]

Sept 20, 2014 11:43:05 GMT -5 r said:

I'll put my question here since it fits the theme.

I love black or dark grey interior doors. I have never personally done it. I was thinking about it but we made the decision to go with oil rubbed bronze door knobs and hinges. I love love the look of that lol. When we first installed them I kept going over to admire it. My question is ... can you do black doors with the black knobs and hinges? I thought about doing a charcoal grey but my entire first floor going up to second floor hallway is Graceful Gray.. too much monotone in that scheme lol. So should I stick with a bright white to contrast the orb knobs and hinges or be daring and go with the contrast of the black door with black hardware vs grey walls.

We have ORB hardware and it's fine. Our doors are not a solid black, though, since they are stained dark. I personally don't think I'd do ORB on painted black doors. 

[lavender444]

We have both orb, and silver levers. I like the orb better on the back doors, and plan on replacing all the levers with ORB in the future. It seems more cohesive to me. No one has ever mentioned having trouble seeing them.

[kellikans]

when we were replacing our doorknobs, I considered going with ORB. in the end we went with white porcelain, but I don't think there's anything wrong with ORB on black doors.

[r]

Thanks for the feedback! I had googled black doors with black knobs and couldn't find many examples. I think I will try it on one door and see how it goes. I think it will be fine. I'll post a picture when I do

[kellikans]

neeps, it's Valspar Notre Dame