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New house need help with front door color!
Comments (27)If you can narrow down your choices to three or four, I recommend buying some large plain white poster paper and painting a LARGE swatch of each test color, leaving a 2" white border around the edge so that you don't compare the color with whatever is immediately around it, but still see the color in its intended environment. This works for interior and exterior areas. Hang the swatches with painters tape in the area where you want to try it and let it stay there for a few days days while you think about it and look at it different times of day. Don't rush it! Those little Benjamin Moore paint pods are about $5 and other paint brand sample sizes are inexpensive, too. You can easily paint large swatches with the samples and the expense is minimal compared with the cost of having to do something and then re-do it because the color isn't right. You'll be surprised how different a color can look in larger quantities than on a paint chip. N.E.V.E.R pick a paint color from a paint chip or from an online picture. Monitors, cameras, and computers' calibrations, time of day, seasons, area of the country you live in- so many variables when it comes to how any color looks. It's worth it to use HUGE swatches. Paint chips really are just a start to finding the perfect color. Also, if you find a color is perfect but it's too dark you can have the paint folks mix the color at a % formula- 50% if you want it half as dark, etc....See MoreNew front door, need to pick stain color ASAP
Comments (7)No matter what you do it's never going to match your floors because they're different woods - you won't get that dark graining on the door and the natural color of the woods is different to begin with. I'd be afraid that trying to match will always look like a swing and a miss. If it were MY door, I'd make them different enough that it's clear matching was never the hope. In your first picture I thought the door might even be painted yellow and that looks lovely with your blue gray siding....See MoreNeed help with front door paint or stain color
Comments (4)Nice doors. You have two general approaches. One of the distinctive feature of this entry is the contrasting brick and stone. They're very different. So you can: 1. Choose a color that picks up tones from both the brick and the stone as a way to tie these different materials together. A rust color would be a good choice. 2. Choose a color that contrasts with that color. Look at the color wheel and choose a color opposite. So if you choose rust, paint the door a greenish blue -- more green if your rust is more red and more blue if your rust is more orange....See MoreStaining interior doors. Looking for help picking a color.
Comments (1)The doors look, possibly like birch. Since they are already stained and varnished, you will need to strip them down before you can restain them. Stain has to be able to get into the wood. It cant do that, if there is any finish at all on them. If you are not wanting to do a lot of stripping, then, just prime and paint them....See MoreRelated Professionals
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