I think a red door says "happy, friendly house" --
And it may be trite, but I still love them,
and it would be one of those things that would stick in the back of my mind
(like an insanely expensive French Range) making me want that house over another one.

Of course, not every house looks good with a red door, but if yours does, I'd do it in a milisecond!

Not trite - tried and true.

Yellow flowers in a flower bed really stand out when you look at a house from the street.

After such a dismal winter for the entire country, yellow flowers will be a warm & welcome site. In regards to the red door, it's a very popular choice. I think your question shouldn't be "should I have a red door", but instead, "what color red should I choose for my door". Because picking the right shade is really the key to it looking it's best.

I have a yellow house with a red door and white trim. It is very welcoming and people have stopped (twice) to ask the color of the door. I think it was BM brick or something similar.
Good luck.
Jo

'Cottage Red', BM! Love it in any setting!!

I love our original-to-1924-CA-bungalow-red door. I chose BM "Classic Burgundy" & had them even add a few extra squirts of black as some of the reds seemed to have a bit of an orange cast which I didn't want. Our "third color
trim is the same.

When we put our Marietta, GA, home on the market, my Yellow Explosion daylilies, all 15 of them, were in full bloom. It stopped traffic! Yellow draws a lot of attention and it looked great with our teal door. Looks fine with red, too!

Historical sidenote: Read something interesting in a mailing from FPE last week: the black door tradition started during the Victorian era, as part of the mourning for Prince Albert--British folks started painting their doors black, along with the wrought iron gates and everything else they could find on the front of their houses, out of respect for the Queen.

Red doors, in contrast, started in response to the black doors -- people in countries that didn't particularly like England started painting their doors all sorts of bright colors, including a bright red, to say "we don't care that Albert died." No proof of that other than the FPE mailing, but it's interesting to contemplate where our "just so" traditions started :)

OK, well I don't care that Albert died, I guess. I've picked BM Onondaga Clay for the front door, but I'll look at Cottage Red, brick and burgundy. I love the idea of yellow daylillies.

I asked the landscaper if he could do a little yellow flower vignette that will give me yellow flowers all season long and he said, "go buy some annuals." Nice, huh?

Our house colors are taupe (brick) and Valspar bittersweet chocolate, the trim is Vanderberg blue, the windows are white... what's one more color?

Evidently I don't care either, silverspring :)

silverspring - your landscaper was spot-on. If you want flowering plants for the whole season, you plant annuals.

My yellow pansies are blooming here in Maryland now. They will last through June.

IÂm sad that Albert died, but IÂm over it. Must move on.

My last door was red. Over time it faded to a pinkish tone. It gets full blazing sun all morning. We also have a storm door which really traps heat in between.

I love red. I now have a (mostly) red kitchen. In the last 22 years whenever we bought a new car I insisted it had to be red to go with the house.

We had a new door installed last summer and never got around to painting it. Of course it MUST be red. But IÂm having trouble finding one that works. The house is red brick, a combination of a dark brick color with some charcoal overlay ones and a few sandy colored ones. So all blue reds are out. That eliminates 75% of them. Everything that is a warm red that will coordinate with the brick is not intense enough to stand out. Trim is muted Williamsburg blue. The new door as also a full panel of mission style stained glass so there is not much paintable area exposed. And there is no red in the glass, just textures, and very small touches of blue, green and amber (the colors of which really only show up from inside).

I have actually had the radical thought of painting the door blue but that incendiary idea was met with horror by all who live within.