Need help with door color
I was hoping someone could help me with a new color for my door. Also my urn and chair on the porch. Disregard my landscaping as I'm working on a design for the fall. I am sick of yellow and orange red. All my doors have been one or the other and looking for something else. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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kazzh
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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 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 with front door color!!
Comments (5)Black or dark blue would fit perfectly. Maybe even paint those 2 parts below side windows on the left and right to make it even. White color would be good as well. Or if you like contrast and current appearance, maybe dark brown as well. Here's article with 40 doors and entrances, you might find some additional inspiration: 40 door ideas...See MoreNeed help selecting garage door color/stain
Comments (3)What a beautiful home! I would make sure the finish relates to another finish on your home. Black picks up the shutters and fence, but it’s a lot of black. White would be gorgeous, as well. I don’t see any other wood, and given that it’s pine (am I correct?), I’d just paint it....See More
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last yearI painted the glass goor trim white and going to try this ppg color for fall. Thoughts?
decoenthusiaste
last yearDoor white to match the storm, or repaint the storm to match the door. I agree that the rustic country shutters are the fly in the ointment. Perhaps if you switch to square, cedar posts properly placed you'll get the country cottage style unified, and the need to change paint colors will subside. It is the shutters, porch and posts that are not working as a unified style, and the vignette gives an uneasy feeling that something is wrong, but is isn't paint.
PROBeth H. :
last yearlast modified: last yeardidn't we work on purple colors last year? lol
Do you have to have the shutters?
See? I like it better w/o Here's a natural hickory door, diff ceiling light, flower boxes
This White Dutch Door looks cool w/the other white elements. plant some white flowers in the urns
White school house light
I did go back to your purple
and one in yellow w/a diff light
this one reminds me of yours
Dave Vadney
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Beth H. :
last yearwhat's throwing off the shutter look is the columns. you have a very traditional looking porch/posts, but the wood/rustic shutters oppose it.
Perhaps if you changed the posts to a wood that matched, but square,
or, switched out the shutters to a more tradional style and pained them the same as the door?
it's the only black cottage w/shutters I could find
I like the white, actually.
you like this look?
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Beth H. :
last yearlast modified: last yearwhat's throwing off the shutter look is the columns. you have a very traditional looking porch/posts, but the wood/rustic shutters oppose it.
Perhaps if you changed the posts to a wood that matched, but square,
or, switched out the shutters to a more tradional style and pained them the same as the door?
it's the only black cottage w/shutters I could findI like the white, actually.
you like this look?
white numbers too
Or what if you did the door and shutters (diff shutters) in Black amethyst?
Or, just go black on black. but pick a super deep black. I have the paint guy add 4 more squirts of black tint to their darkest black.
Dave Vadney
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last yearThis is what the house looks like from the side. I should have posted this initially as well
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Maureen
last yearlast modified: last yearI’d definitely paint the shutters as well as frames around side wIndow and door white. If the deck railings are painted, change to white also. House is so cute and gets lost/feels busy. Paint storm door white to help pull in the pillars.
I noticed the pinkish hue in the front steps and suggest a blush on door, to connect visually. I’m not a fan of the two urns and there are all kinds of ways to bump up the front porch; looking at inspiration pictures will be really helpful.
I think you will end up with a fun, well coordinated house without it being overwhelming. Less can be more.
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