Need help choosing color for front door
Susan Stenberg Wilson
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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 MoreNeed help in choosing color for front door
Comments (11)That is interesting that you suggested red because that was what I was originally thinking. Originally I was going to match my front doors to the outbuilding color of Glidden California Red. Here is an example on two of our sheds: However, I was beginning to think it might be too much color for the front door. As for aqua, I am pretty sure my husband would say no. ;-) Thanks for the help....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 MoreNeed help choosing paint color for front door
Comments (6)What a pretty home! I think a white would look nice especially since its used in the trim, would work nice with the door handle they currently have too. If youre wanting to restain the wood I would try a stain that neutralizes the yellow....See MoreSusan Stenberg Wilson
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