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kkturner54
7 years agojoanculbertson33
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7 years agoWe painted our garage doors & Front Entrance Doors in an Autumn Red Benjamin Moore and added Awnings with the same colour trim. This helped to compliment the bits of rusty red in our brickwork.
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7 years agomarnerichard
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7 years ago landofhappy
7 years agoRed door, green shutters. Ready for a change but don't know what to change it to.
mhteb
7 years ago
PRODB Home Improvements and Handyman Services
7 years agoI have done lots of wood stained doors, and exterior trim color doors, but this home I built in East Nashville has a front door color that really "pops" ,and brings out a warm and inviting entrance to a delightful refurbished older home.
ilovebooks
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoLex Parker I couldn't agree more! There is a breezeway between house and garage with blue door also. Trim around front only is a shade different from house
carolynsmimi
7 years agoba_pocock
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7 years agoLA Saunders
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Ellen Robison
7 years agokodett
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chloebud
7 years agoKristin Marvin
7 years agoI received several likes on my front door color shown in an above comment (thank you!) and it was driving me crazy that I didn't have a full "after" photo so I snapped one this morning. Here is the gorgeous black hardware on my Grasshopper green door by SW. The red brick is on my dislike list but we may be moving so I don't think that will ever be taken care of. And yes, we opted to bring in the lights and ended up with a box. In daily life you don't even notice it. The previous lights were GINORMOUS (and rusted) and set waaaay out. This way you see the lights upon approach (and boxes are hidden by posts) and once you are in the space you are looking at the door. The only way to not have the boxes was to leave the lights in their original position or knock out the inside walls to reroute! That was NOT going to happen!
Kendell Gardner
7 years agoThis is an old fixer upper - a beach bungalow. The house is soft cloud blue. The front door is Grand Hotel Geranium Pink.
katie32123
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThe painters finished on Friday. We opted for all white with a yellow door. (formerly blue with rusty red shutters and door) The house looks awfully plain without shutters, but because of the pond and streetlight out front we live in bat heaven, and bats use the shutters as bat houses and I'm not going through that mess again. New windows are on the list and should help the look. In summer the house is almost completely hidden by greenery anyway. :-)
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Before before
The summertime view
I'm loving seeing all the other doors. Makes me wonder about painting the door a new color every year! ;-)
jopiotte
7 years agoWe painted the formerly white door and shutters a rich burgundy. Finally got the new garage doors to match last year! I think it warms up the gray siding.
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7 years ago annemccleave
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PROTAB ASSOCIATES INC
7 years ago
Front door with little cruciform double glazed lites surrounded by copper clad windows. When the sun shines thru the little crosses, it makes for a spectacular sight inside the Entry.
Deirdre Reid
7 years ago
mirador
7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
Marybeth Chillemi-Franklin
7 years agopattlparker
7 years agoI have a major bias about homes that display fun, unique and stylish door colors. To me, it says, "there is an imaginative, interesting person that lives here!" I love all the enthusiastic descriptions of your doors!
Chris Sedlmayr
7 years agoWell, I called it salmon, but Behr calls it Marquee "Strawberry Wine", MQ4-2.
Bruce Crawford
7 years agopatti parker
7 years agoBruce Crawford
7 years agoPattiParker, I don't believe I was overthinking it. The way you made your statement leads the reader to infer that one who does not have "fun, unique or stylish door colors" is not imaginative or interesting. Here are a couple pics. I chose not to make a statement with a $40 gallon of paint, but with art glass. The exterior lighting will go when I've completed my in-progress bathroom reno, which has followed in quick succession a major K reno, a laundry reno and another bath reno. The doors are a very high quality mahogany, as you can see from the interior pic. The exterior pic was taken in late afternoon on a very bright day. The house faces north, so it was very high contrast. I've tweaked it in PS to make the windows and doors more noticeable. They were done more as a part of the reno's than to enhance curb appeal, but you should see them from the street at night.
Sandra DePue
7 years agopatti parker
7 years agomirador
7 years agoBruce Crawford
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMirador, thanks for your comments. My wife isn't into "fun" on the exterior. She never even really liked the blue I've shown below. PattiParker, I'd considered adding a 4th pic yesterday, but held off. As you will see, I'm not opposed to painted doors. These are my old ones. They aren't as blue as SofiKBR's, which are beautiful, but her porch is a lot wider, which helps them stand out. Unfortunately my porch is very narrow, making the doors appear to be in a hole, especially w/ their northward orientation which means they're always in a shadow. Before I painted them blue, I'd painted them a tan. I can't remember what color they were when I bought the house in '76. The yellow Flemish-ish glass really limited my choices. Before my new K (L) & LR (R) windows went in, the original aluminum ones had surrounds of 1x10's top & bottom, 1x8's vertically, painted same blue as door. As I noted elsewhere, when I was in college, our fraternity, SPE, had a bright, bright red front door. Legend was it'd turn white when a virgin passed through. Our sister sorority always made its pledges paint it white in the early Sat. AM's before a party. Now that was a fun door! :-)
Kathi Steele
7 years agoBruce Crawford
7 years agoSherrie Waite
7 years agoIt only took me 2 years to decide on the door color of the 1940's cottage we purchased in summer of 2014. It came with a "pickled drift wood look" front door which I transformed to the color of blue that matches our stray peacock named Pretty Boy, which came with the keys to the cottage. I called this door color "Pretty Boy Blue". Sherwin Williams- Honorable Blue SW6811.
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