Need help choosing paint color for my front door.
Adelaine
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Keli O
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Help! Need help on choosing Front door color.
Comments (2)I almost pasted in your photo so everyone didn't have to go the link route, but I noticed all your photos are © all rights reserved. So I didn't. That's a smart thing to do by the way, ©. Your screen door is very smart looking. There are a lot of doodads out front: the flower on the door, the big pot of plants, the flag. If you get a new color on the door that you love, I wonder if there will be less doodads and decoration. :~D I can think of one color for the door. It's a red, but it is a very warm red. "Warm" red is a big clue that it is an orange-y-er red. I know you don't want "orange" but the bricks are going to dictate to a great extent the color choices. Also, you don't want the door color to blend any more, like the current color. So, to get that punch you're likely lookin' at some flavor of red. Ben Moore's Caliente would be the first chip/sample I'd check out. Another idea to play with is something like a mid-value golden yellow. Again, due to the brick you'll have to get the *right* golden yellow, but it is another color option that will pop and not blend....See MoreNeed Help choosing a color to paint the front door...
Comments (20)Don't go to the Home Depot to buy an exterior red for you door. Just don't do it. A real paint store that sells Ben Moore or Pratt & Lambert are much better bets. Sherwin Williams would be okay too. But first you have to determine if you can paint your white door red. You have two issues: One, it's white, probably came from the manufacturer white. Not all white doors can be painted darker colors. You have to check your warranty and documents for the door. Usually the better quality and grade the door, the more options you have for color. The info for your door will specify a LRV, Light Reflectance Value. Paint an inexpensive white door a mid-tone to dark color and you will have issues because the door was never meant to deal with the energy accume. Darker colors absorb more wavelengths of light, wavelengths are energy, energy turns into heat. Or, more simply put a dark color will cook your door. If it's made to handle the heat, you're fine. Second issue is the storm door. It acts like a magnifying glass on a bug. Your door is the bug. Definitely consider the integrity of the door's structure as well as how intense/not intense the exposure to the sun is on the front of your house. North is the mildest, easiest on a home's elements. South and west can be wicked intense....See MoreI need help choosing colors for my front door and shutters
Comments (1)You might try posting this on the Home Decorating forum. I think a red door and darker gray would look great on your house....See MoreNeed help choosing front door color
Comments (3)Too much matching makes things, even things as big as houses, disappear. Choose a deep color of your choice! With the soft/neutral/easygoing gray & white, almost anything will add some punch. I me my own self would think of deep lacquer red or deep teal/turquoise. Beautiful house!...See MoreKeli O
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