Door Color for TerraCotta/Red Brick w/ Slate Floor and Brown Trim
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We need to paint our front and side doors because the paint is starting to wear very badly. Eventually, we want to change the old, Tudor Brown aluminum siding on our house to cedar shake and want something that might transition to that. We have large slabs of gray and brown slate that will not be changing. Here are a few colors that seem to work. This is our first house, so we appreciate any advice from those who have done this before. The dark red photo is the color now. We also plan on getting rid of the old storm door.
Thanks!
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last yearI like the jewel tones. The orange and red are really nice. With a full length storm door, you'll be able to see more of that wonderful door.
Here are come Benjamin Moore colors that would look good.
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PROlast yearA pretty shade of green would be lovely. You can’t really see door from street so might want to try a yellow like the forsythia outside!
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Thanks for all this great advice!
@kandrewspa Our original thought *was* dark green—BM Essex or Chrome Green! When I pulled the picture into Photoshop and colored it, we weren't sure with the blueish slate floor. It might just be that the Tudor Brown that is making it feel off. Hopefully, that will be gone. I'll post a pic...
@Jennifer Hogan We would like it to speak to the interior as well. The foyer as you enter is not done yet, but the room to the right and kitchen straight ahead that you can see are 90% there, so we will definitely take into consideration the color-ways there when deciding. Great point! The cranberry/blue-leaning red is the present color that we will be painting over. You can see a bit of it on the side door as well...
@tracefloyd We love the blue, too! It's one of the colors we'll be grabbing chips for when we hit the paint store. We are still weighing the possibility of keeping and painting the storm because that doorway is like a wind tunnel. A neighbor's home built by the same people has no storm on their arched door and it looks so much better. The former owner of our house built a rectangular frame in front of the beautiful arched door to accommodate the screen. A custom arched storm door is on the long-term list.
@houssaon Thanks for the suggestions! We'll grab those chips when we hit the paint store.
@Patricia Colwell Consulting Thank you for the invitation to rethink the shake siding. We saw it on a much larger, more modern tudor with a pretty standard brick pattern and consistent color. Our house is made from bricks that were rejected by the brick factory and pretty funky and busy, so I see your point! I've been meaning to get a peek behind the aluminum, so maybe I need to get on that. There's a half-moon arched window behind the peak on the front of the house, so we hope to have that repaired and get rid of the siding they added to cover it to expose the brick. It's like that on the back. - last year
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