Any suggestions about door paint colors, given the existing other colors? I think a black door can look super elegant in many cases, but maybe wouldn't work as well with my shutters which are dark brown. Interesting about not installing new plants when a house is on market. My thought was that filling in a blank space (within reason) might look better. My market is probably first time home buyers. Younger people who aren't yet gardeners may not see the value/ potential of a blank slate. Indoors, my realtor and a friend have said my minimalist furnishings are cold looking and need some strategic items to make rooms more inviting. Considering that, I was thinking a couple bigger plants would make the outdoors -- by magic! -- more inviting. I take your points about the addition of permanent plants not being 100 percent called for in home selling. I'm probably dreaming outside of my budget anyway. To answer publickman, storm doors insulate the primary door against winter cold air/ summer hot air, and protect the primary door from driving rain. Maybe storm doors were first developed for entrances that don't have a porch or other roof. Also many storm doors have screens for summer use. Thanks again everyone.

I didn't mention this on the last thread because I thought it would have been too technical. When talking about 'size' of a digital photo, it can refer to two separate, though often related things. The physical size of the picture on the screen, and the file size of the information necessary to show the photo. Physically large pictures mess up the thread formatting. Large file sizes are the ones that take forever to download. So these two photos have the same file size, just the html commands determing photo size are different. The first is 240 px, the second is 1000. You can start to see some fuzziness in the second picture where there really isn't enough information.

Thanks Annie and busy! I have looked for several images of long hallways and hadn't seen that one yet. Definitely like the look of larger pieces there as opposed to several small ones, as busy suggested. We thought about putting a track lighting in there but decided on doing three recessed cans instead, and they do put out plenty of light. With 8 ft ceilings I'm always looking for ways to make the ceiling look higher and I thought the recessed would do that. Three cans with LEDs gives us more than enough light; almost too much at times, so we put a dimmer switch in to help with that. Now that we have so better lighting, that's kind of what got me thinking about doing a deeper color, despite the lack of natural light. busy, thank you for sharing your experience with the color you chose. It's a bit counterintuitive, so that's one reason I thought I'd ask the forum readers about it. Another thing I'm seeing in several photos is to paint the ends of the hall a darker shade to make it look less tunnel-like. In this case there are doors at either end so not sure it will make too much difference, but I may try it. I wish I had a more interesting space to work with, but hopefully I'll get this right and enjoy walking through this hallway. Since I do it several times a day, it seems like a good idea to at least try to make it better than what it is:)

I don't resize either. Maybe I should but that would involve me learning how on my very limited editing program (if I even have that feature?) and I'm not up to it.........My favorites are Kitty Bannerman, Lucky Streak and Acquire the Fire. Interestingly enough, that deep red you get on Acquire the Fire is the same here in our climate (heat index = 110 F Tuesday, actual temperature 104 F) - with exceptional colorfast/sunfast qualities for such a dark color. That makes it one remarkable daylily in my book.................Maryl