What color for front door?

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We got a new door and I want to paint it a color. I'm leaning towards red, but am looking for other opinions as well. I'm putting a picture of my current front door below so you can see the current colors. We plan on painting the house in the spring. We'll leave the brick, but the white siding is going to be painted a blue/grey color. We'll likely leave the shutters black, and we'll leave the rest of the trim white. The new door is 3/4 glass with black leading and the hardware is black.  Our new screen door is full glass like the current one, but is black. 

[Susie]

There's a decent range of what people consider "blue/gray," but yellow looks nice with many.

 





ETA:  I guess as I think about it, my house is kind of blue-gray, and is a similar style.  I have a purple door.  


We're planning to re-side the house in a green-gray in the next couple years though, and it was picked out more to go with that than with the current siding.

[rubiakt]

We are in the process of picking out a new color for our front door as well. We are replacing our siding and the new color will also be a blue grey. Options I am considering are yellow (front runner), red-orange, robins egg blue, or lilac (humoring my daughter). We are going to have a grey stone veneer where you have your brick, in your case I might avoid red because it will blend with the brick rather than pop like a color like yellow might.

[nicolewi]

This is hard without being able to see the siding yet.

First I thought no way to red on red brick, but I see on Google that this can look very classy if you have the right red. Like a deep enough, glossy red, and not orange-y. Maybe kind of like this vibe?
images.app.goo.gl/iG4wLvySpX8McjPc7

I LOVE yellow doors, and with the blue, but I don't love them with brick.

All I've got to offer right now is that you can Google "Red brick with (COLOR) door" if you haven't already and it can be helpful to see the images.

I like blue doors with the red brick, but you'd have to see what would coordinate with the siding.

www.thespruce.com/door-colors-brick-houses-4766999

[divanerd]

Any color really i like red, black, burnt orange without having to paint shutters

[carmenere]

No recommendations for the color, but we used the Sherwin Williams Color Snap app to try on new colors for our front door. (We never followed through on picking a color and painting.)

[macmars45]

My new house has a white door with a huge window in it. I'll be either replacing it and/or painting it red. My dream has been to have a red front door. I'm not a fan of the huge window door so my guess is we'll replace it and have the new one be red.

Three of my four sisters have driven by my new house and all separately told me they were surprised by the door because it's nms at all. (My house is new construction but all the finishes were already chosen by the time we bought it.)