What color should I paint my front door?
I have a cedar siding home in the woods with a wrap around porch. My problem is everything is brown and boring. I do have dark green shutters, but the rest of the house is brown. I would like to paint the front door and maybe trim around the windows or porch posts.
I too, live in the woods. We painted our home a dark oak-leaf green, with cream-colored doors. I randomly painted a facing board on the eaves a dark red. Not all of them, just one side or another, here and there. I also painted an occasional edge of an eave on the barn, tree house, pump house and other out-buildings. I also installed a bird feeder with the same color scheme.
Unusual, and gets lots of positive comments.
high gloss black
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paint it with white or coral white.
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Red!
Red is a nice warm color, but still gives life!
I recently painted some of my room red, not too much though, because red can go into anger too.
Good luck!
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Yes RED, It will make it POP!
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Whatever color you choose you should also paint the shutters with. The door can be a different shade of the same color, maybe in a deeper tone. With the brown cedar siding you have lots of options. I think I’d paint the door a medium shade of teal like the color of this house:
http://z.about.com/d/homebuying/1/0/l/7/-/-/MendocinoHomes-0850.jpg
And the other trim and shutters can be cream or a lighter shade of the teal.
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I too, live in the woods. We painted our home a dark oak-leaf green, with cream-colored doors. I randomly painted a facing board on the eaves a dark red. Not all of them, just one side or another, here and there. I also painted an occasional edge of an eave on the barn, tree house, pump house and other out-buildings. I also installed a bird feeder with the same color scheme.
Unusual, and gets lots of positive comments.
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This may sound crazy but I would try a cedar shade of green.The shutters will have to be repainted to match and doing all the trim on the house will set it off.Go to a Benjamin Moore dealer and have them pull up shades and matches for you till you find what you like.You may want to change the style door and stain a new one to match the siding,then only paint the casing.A door with the top half composed of some dark stained glass would be awesome.Good Luck!Enjoy and have fun with it!
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