I like the pink. The one on the bottom left on the front door would be my choice

I love pink but find these pinks too dark and muddy on your house with the clean green roof. I'd try a blush pink. Or a dark clean green to complement your roof. Here's a blog post about pink front doors. They're mostly lighter and brighter than your samples and would work with your house, imo. White and pink can skew "cute" so if you're not someone who loves pink, I can understand the hesitation.

How about a deep eggplant purple instead of pink?

see if these are any better

I'd paint everything on the porch the same white. even the deck and stairs.

This color would also look good w/the roof color. bring in the right porch accents:

gray porch, white posts, white ceiling, and paint that rocking chair a soft lime green.

I like these pinks. Either one of the darker ones would be my choice. I also really like the one Beth H. : suggested in the photo with 24 1/2.

When I see that minty green I always think of chocolate as a compliment. Then you could hang pink flower teardrop on the door. This one features your peonies and some hydrangea.

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Pink just never looks right as an accent color.

well it's not technically an accent color. (not like trim, or fascia) it's a front door. and on a farmhouse cottage, it's perfectly acceptable.

Besides, never say never

"Pink just never looks right as an accent color."

and fuschia, it's stunning next to gray.

I was going to suggest eggplant or if you stick with pink make sure it’s really pink not mauve... Cute house!

Those aren't really pink, IMO, and I think they'd look quite nice. I prefer the lighter options, though -- the one on the bottom right (in the close up) is my favourite. I could also see something peachy, like the photo with the Spanish moss.

I think the pinks you've chosen are the wrong tone. I am not opposed to a pink door. You roof looks more like a pistachio green to me.

Because of that you need to either go true pink or coral.

Another option that could work for you is a bright navy that leans towards royal.

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Those are all possibilities but if it were me (and if the doors are wood) I would strip them and leave them natural wood color.

Especially if you want to eventually do a brick walk way. A natural wood door would be lovely. I would create a wrap around porch from your front door to your side door. Then beef up your porch game (columns, steps etc)

How sweet. I like purple with your roof along with field stone landing from front door and stone pathways plus a small sitting area outside right. I also added a window box loaded with purple and white flowers.

Give it a try! It is only paint! (I like the pretty pale true pinks, but that is MY preference!). Question: Do you have one of those wonderful wooden multi pane storm doors with the insert that you can replace with a screen? I had one on an old farm house that we owned. And I LOVED it!

I don't like the purples - I love the idea of pink, but think it should be soft. My favorite is one of Beth H's photos with the house numbers 24547, or the one with the dutch door.

We did pink, though our house is not cottage. People either love it or hate it. The color we used was my husbands pick but as someone said above, its only paint. Ignore the landscaping, we are working on a plan after building the deck last year.

Not only is it only paint, it’s just a quart...go for it!

Like yourself, I am not a pink person or a bold color person, so my initial thought was that you would regret the pink door rather quickly. But the pictures of the soft pinks totally changed my mind. The colors you suggested look more terra cotta on my monitor and don't look very appealing. Not a fan of purple or hot pink, but the soft pinks really grabbed me. It will make you smile every time you pull into your yard.

Pink door -- likely wouldn't ... but then, I'm not particularly fond of pink. Your home; your door; your choice.

With creamy siding and green fascia, you might consider yellow -- a pastel you could have in your garden as well.

Another idea, especially if you have pink and red inside, might be to add pink curtains or sheers to door interior over the glass -- the kind with rod at both top and bottom. Likely visible from the outside but neither permanent nor overpowering.

https://www.amazon.com/DWCN-French-Door-Curtains-Blackout/dp/B07Q33X6QB

Pink flower for near your door could also enable you to add that color .

https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Flower-Indoor-Ceramic-Outdoor/dp/B07HBYM7LN

While a lot of porch rockers are white, you could paint one pink or add pink cushions to one.

What a great story and photo. I love how you are honoring this home. Start with a light pink. It will probably need two coats anyway. Then you can assess. I think the Rose Quartz is a better hue, but take one step at a time.

Don’t you wish you could add back that great wraparound porch?! Love it.

I actually did add the front porch back on, so I guess technically I re-added half of the wraparound:) The other half ultimately may end up as an open deck because with a full roof, it would just be way too dark in the dining room. But, yes, I love that wraparound front porch and often wonder when/why it disappeared.

I like the idea of a pink-ish front door color. I like the two colors on the right in the below picture. I'd go darker for my first choice, simply because you don't have a lot of front door there with the glass, and I've found that colors tend to look a little lighter outside than you anticipate.

Front doors are easy and inexpensive to paint.

I love pink and went with a vibrant coral pink on our dark navy house so I’d never call you crazy for picking pink. :-) I’ll attach pics of our house at two different times of day so you can see how a bright pink shifts color...but I really like the idea of a softer shade on your lovely cream house.

We bought a 1900 Victorian 3 story 17 room home when we got married and we loved that wraparound porch. It was not well maintained and all wood so we spent a good bit of money restoring it. Everything was bad. From foundation on up. It was so worth it. We raised our family there and have great memories. So what happens is you end up with two choices. Rebuild them right or tear them down. Sadly, most can’t afford to rebuild them. So you have to accept where it is but paint the screened porch same as house so it looks more original. As SapphireStich pointed out go deeper in hue. I love her door color. Just do some sample boards so you can test outside at various times of day. It will be really sweet.

What a wonderful story! I just knew there was a wrap around porch involved in this houses history! Hopefully some day you can make it happen again because it is fantastic!

If you must paint ;-) ..........

Cats Meow by Ben Moore

Try the pink- agree, small surface area to paint. Live with it a few days/weeks and you can always re-assess

Saphhire Stitch, your house is beautiful with the navy blue and coral door! I started to get pretty excited by the idea of a soft pink door last night, with the rest of the porch painted the same color as the main body/trim like Beth H. had suggested. I do like this color, and was able to find that it is Sweetened Plum by SW...so I will proabably test this color next, but am uncertain about it looking too washed out with all the glass on my door.

(it's the middle color on the chip, but definitely does not appear to have such a nice soft pink hue in this photo as it does in the door pictured above--the chip makes it look rather muddy)

I'm also planning to try more of a coral as well, but still looking for a specific shade.

If I start with the lightest pink color in painting and decide I don't like it, at least I won't have to re-prime it before painting over it:)

Flo Mangan, the rear facing sun porch is the next major project after the exterior painting! It's got a ton of character (it was built with scrap wood and old furniture packing crates 100 years ago!) but it needs so much help that it wasn't even worth having it painted with the bulk of the house since its not really visible. Ultmately, once its in better shape, it will be painted same as house. Old porches are the best!

wow, DesignInteriorSouth, I LOVE that house you posted... I actually even have a horse I could decorate the front lawn with just like in the photo lol:) I looked up BM Cat's Meow, but it says not available as an Exterior Paint? I was able to find a few other photos of it as a front door color, so there must be a way around that?

They can mix the color into an outdoor paint.

I laughed in regards to the horse! So funny!

There is another pink I have to find the name of. Let me poke around and see what I come up with.

Do you have access to Farrow & Ball because I think their pinks are some of the best. Think Pink doors in England. I love their Nancy Blushes

Ben Moores Petunia is good but a bit more "dull" and muddy.

Behr Pink Quartz

I like a nice blush pink, BM Tissue Pink, or maybe a copper red paint SW 2839

Roycroft Copper Red

I don’t have access to Farrow and Ball, but I have had pretty good success with having F& B colors mixed at my local SW. They may not be exact but they come out as beautiful colors anyway! I probably won’t be making a decision on the door right away — I am

trying to avoid buying 50 samples of pink and then disliking most of them, so I want to narrow it down to 3 before I get more samples. I need to learn how to use some photo editing apps to cut and paste various doors onto the house— that was super helpful! Thanks so much everyone!!

Undertones, undertones, undertones. Learn about the undertones before choosing your color.

The idea of a deeper pink because the door is small is a good idea. But someone X’d out the pink with blue undertones which looks lovely with your lavender wreath. The other pink upper left have a salmon undertone. The lighter pink has a mauve undertone.

Also be mindful of the color of your overhang. It’s reflecting the cream with greenish yellow undertones. Choose a pink tone that compliments it.

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To be sure, once you pic final 2-3, post the names and I can do a color analysis and precisely determine the Hue Color family.

Thanks for all the help, everyone! i will check back in before I make a final decision!