Can I play the front door game too? Please help!

[pinkeggs]

We bought our house in April and one of the things the inspection found was that the shutters need to be replaced. The sellers gave us money for new shutters, so we are trying to decide both shutter and door color.

I really have a thing with red doors (I know, original, right??). I just want to make sure it would look OK and also get some input on the shutter color.

Right now we are thinking dark charcoal shutters and a red door. The house color is not white, but not yellow; kind of a buttercream color. Thoughts? Thanks!

(and I did pip the front a few times back on TN, but we are actually looking at colors now, so excuse the PW-ness lol)

[housegeek]

Any specific red? A brick red or cherry red?

[housegeek]

If you get specific colors I can use those, I love doing this stuff hah.

[pinkeggs]

Oh that's awesome, thanks!

Hmm, that looks kind of bright, doesn't it?

What about this one?
www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/colors/front-door-color#slide-16

Otherwise, I like SW Show Stopper or SW Red Bay. Can you do that?

Thank you so much! I really need to learn these skills

[peach]

I think the grey shutters look weird with a red door. Actually, I think they grey shutters just look weird with the yellow house.
The red is nice - I think I'd do dark red rather than tomato red or brick red though....
Hmm.

[peach]

What color is your roof?? I'd be tempted to just do white shutters and a red door

But here is a photo of what I was saying in my last post- black and red

[peach]

duh...i see your roof is brown. If you have a brown roof, I would definitely not do grey shutters. I'd do white or black. I've seen yellow houses with like a sagey green colored shutter that was pretty too.

Ok, I am done.

[pinkeggs]

Jun 15, 2012 22:20:10 GMT -5 peach said:

duh...i see your roof is brown. If you have a brown roof, I would definitely not do grey shutters. I'd do white or black. I've seen yellow houses with like a sagey green colored shutter that was pretty too.

Ok, I am done.

LOL, no I appreciate it! That's why I asked here! I hadn't thought of white shutters - that might be nice. Or black. You know, one extreme or the other lol

[housegeek]

This is the bay red and black. Still pretty bright, but it should be a bit more subdued IRL

[pinkeggs]

Jun 15, 2012 23:00:43 GMT -5 housegeek said:

This is the bay red and black. Still pretty bright, but it should be a bit more subdued IRL

Thank you! I guess the way to know for sure is just to do test swatches like I do with the rooms. This definitely helped though!