What color is your front door? What color would you like to try?

[lynn]

I need some inspiration. I have lightish brick. Right now it is hunter green and the shutters are also hunter green.

[Dandelion]

It's brown. I've always wanted a red door. But it wouldn't look right with our particular style of house.

[violamama]

I'm not a fan of hunter green, which is what our front door's also been painted. It's kind of 80's, KWIM?

 

I'd love to have a deep rich red. Actually, I'd probably love to live in Trinity Church, downtown. Just myself and my family rattling around that big old place....

 

http://portlandoregondailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/09/trinitys-red-doors-part-i.html

[Rosie_0801]

Ours is wooden. I'd like wooden with stained glass. Maybe when I own my own front door, I'll paint dragonflies on it in summer and rain clouds in winter.

[Cinder]

Our current is hunter green. I'd like to try black but I think dh already got more green to repaint the door.

[plain jane]

Red. I love it! :D

[Jeannie in NJ]

ours is Pacific blue to match our shutters. It is a seashore house so the blue looks good, the style of our house is called surfsider. I would love red but it would not look good with my house.

[PinkyandtheBrains.]

Our's is red. I like the red. Currently our house is white.

[elinnea]

Ours is red and I love it. Dh wanted originally wanted blue but he loves the red too.

[Luckymama]

Red, red, red, baby! We have a White House with glossy black shutters :D

[Moxie]

We just bought this house. The door is red. Everything is red-shutters, mailbox, lights, kitchen cabinets. I'd love to paint is something else; I feel like I'm in a Poe poem!

[melissad2]

Fire engine red! White House, black shutters and red door!

[OrganicAnn]

Ours is Grey. My mom's is dark green and I've always liked it. I also like red or maroon.

[Happy]

My front door is a deep yellow. On a dreary February day is practically glows. In the summer it looks fresh and fun.

I wouldn't mind a deep purple door, but I'm still loving the yellow one a lot.

[Ghee]

Ours, in our condo, is burgandy. Unfortunately, per HOA rules (barf) everyone's door must look the same on the outside. However, I'm about to paint the inside portion. Not sure what color, though. I'd kind of like to bring avocado "back" ;)

 

My mom's is brick red with these little framed out portions that are light blue. It. looks. horrendous! The paint has finally gotten so old that it is starting to peel off in strips. I'm going to redo hers, as well. I'll have to keep it brick red, as her house is painted the same color, but I will try to find something less offensive for the framed areas... I may go with a nice glossy cream.

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[Belacqua]

Shiny, dark wood with an amber glass insert. I love it. I decided I wanted this house before I ever came inside, just because of that door (not the most rational decision making process, I grant, but I love most of the rest of the house, too).

[nmoira]

Black. I didn't think it would work, but our house painter did it up for our approval (he was tired of our dithering methinks, and knew his eye is better than ours). He promised to change it if we didn't like it, and whatever paint we chose would be on him. The black is perfect, though it gets only a few minutes of direct sunlight.

 

House is A Victorian cottage, light yellow, with mustardy yellow trim and a lighter yellow highlight colour, and with darkish brown pony board and lighter brown porch floor.

[Karen in CO]

My front door is Merlot. It is lovely with my soft blue/grey house with light grey trim (which is almost white).

[BlessedMom]

Ours is white & need of a new coat of paint. I think I would love a color this time around??

[Chris in VA]

Episcopalian red. :D

[Annie]

Ours is dark green (as are the shutters). I want to paint it a nice purple one of these days. I'm thinking a darker purple, close to eggplant, but not quite. I'm thinking I would paint the shutters black.

 

 

My front door is a deep yellow. On a dreary February day is practically glows. In the summer it looks fresh and fun.

I wouldn't mind a deep purple door, but I'm still loving the yellow one a lot.

 

Ohhhh, I love yellow doors! I don't think it would look right with the color trim we have outside or our brick color, but I would love a yellow door someday!

[Alira]

Black. Our house is light brown, with off-white trim.

[Ravin]

Ours is beige. I want either a round red door, or a reproduction of the back doors to Moria, complete with "Speak friend, and enter here" in Elvish.

[Mrs.Gregg]

A french blue... or maybe a cornflower blue. Somewhere between the two. I'd love to have a red or yellow door though.

[elegantlion]

Front door, white. Back door steel blah color - needs paint. I want to paint it Tardis blue.

[emcap]

Pretty, fresh, fun yellow! I painted it last year and love it. The interior side is black, love that too. I've always wanted a yellow front door, I love a fun front door!

[Ellie]

Red. A beautiful, cheery red. Not an orange-y Chinese red...more of a blue-based cherry red. Love it. :-)

[Arcadia]

Ours is black on the outside and white on the inside. I don't mind and I can't change the outside color because of HOA rules.

[TechWife]

Black. The house is light green with white trim, black shutters & door.

[Perogi]

Grey - I really like it but it matches the shutters so I'd like to deepen it to charcoal.

[Ravin]

Ours is black on the outside and white on the inside. I don't mind and I can't change the outside color because of HOA rules.

 

 

I would be petitioning to change that rule at every opportunity. I suppose it might be fine if you live up north, but here a black anything required on the outside of the house is ridiculous, except maybe the house number.

[AngieW in Texas]

Ours is hunter green along with the fake shutters. I would love to have blue, but the neighbor painted hers blue, so we stuck with green.

[Mandylubug]

black outside, inside white

[fourcatmom]

Ours is brown but I would pick red in a heartbeat if I could! :lol:

[Melissa in Australia]

mine is mostly glass. I have french doors

[snickerplum]

Pink. Ish. I'm guessing the previous owners were going for red to match the shutters, but the stain color just didn't quite make it to red. We try and pretend it is, but it's not. It's pink. :)

[SweetMissMagnolia]

right now it's a dirty white LOL with pollen streaks......It's going to get a good scrubbing when I get to it.....I would like to have a brown door or a red door.....a house a few blocks from ours has a purple door and I love it!!!! I would love to have a purple door.....

[PachiSusan]

We rent, so we can't change it. It's dark green.

[SunnyDays]

Ours is grey and very blah. Not sure what else to do with it.

[Laura Corin]

Ours is cornflower blue as are our window frames. I love it. The colour is glowing in the sun this frosty morning.

 

Our rented-out flat in London has a bright red door (not our choosing) and white window frames.

 

Laura

[Lisa in Jax]

About 8 years ago, we went on a second honeymoon to England, where we bought a piece of stained glass in the town where dh's great-grandfather's ancestors likely lived. (The town's name is the same as dh's middle name, which is his mom's maiden name.)

 

When we got home, we bought a solid core wood door, cut out a hole for the stained glass, installed it, and painted the door copper metallic.

 

I. LOVE. IT. I'll paint (and re-paint) anything, but I'm not changing it. The door is staying "copper" for a looooong time. ;)

 

Lisa

[GSOchristie]

Burgundy, blech. I wish it was black, but we would have to paint not only the door, but also the storm door facing and all e shutters. That would require somehow getting to the shutters on the second floor, so it's not going to happen any time soon. Our development is relatively new, they built the first houses in 2006, and most people went to the design house and chose everything. Three people in our cul de sac alone chose this burgundy,

[Ravin]

Burgundy, blech. I wish it was black, but we would have to paint not only the door, but also the storm door facing and all e shutters. That would require somehow getting to the shutters on the second floor, so it's not going to happen any time soon. Our development is relatively new, they built the first houses in 2006, and most people went to the design house and chose everything. Three people in our cul de sac alone chose this burgundy,

 

 

Why do you feel the door must be the same color as the shutters? Is it an HOA rule, or just one you hold yourself to?

[lavender's green]

Hunter green, along with the shutters. I really like dark greens, but I might change it in a couple of years (we just moved in last year so I'm not sick of anything yet). Unfortunately I don't have a good eye for color. I can say "ooh, pretty!" when I see a nice combination, but I can't look at my house color and decide what the perfect door color would be. Actually I don't even know if my house is beige or taupe.

[Parrothead]

Ours is mostly glass with wood. It has a big oval pane of glass surrounded by a deep brown wood.

[J-rap]

Ours is white, but it's a very traditional 100 year-old home, and any other color wouldn't fit. The house is a soft yellow.

 

How would smokey-turquoise look for yours?

[jolley]

Ours is orange. The house is white. I love the orange.

[Granny_Weatherwax]

Yellow! Our house is a deep tan with black shutters.

[freeindeed]

My front door is brown. I'd like to try red.