Quick! Front door colour ideas!

shar46y

As part of a larger project in which our sash windows are being refurbished, we are also getting all the external woodwork redecorated and I need to decide on the colour for our front door!

Background: Victorian villa, lovely red brick, door is currently black (looks very sombre as it is under a porch) and door furniture is chrome-coloured.

I have a hankering for a bluey-greeny sort of colour but there are so many! The decorator has given me a load of colour cards (says he will colour-match if I choose a F&B colour as he doesn't rate their external finishes). I am liking Chapell Green, Dix Blue, Oval Room Blue or Stone Blue right now - don't want it to look too dark, but I gather the colours come out a lot lighter in real life???

Slight extra complication is that we are having the window cills (spelling??) painted to match (also currently black), plus our conservatory which is at the back of the house but want it to all look unified. So I am slightly terrified of getting it wrong :eek:

Any real life experiences or recommendations, or better yet photos?:beer: Thanks in advance for any ideas!

tr3mor

Oh noes. What a stressful life you must lead. How could you possibly live with yourself if you chose a paint that was ever so marginally wrong? I don't know how you sleep at night.

:money:

loracan1

I like the greeny-blue colours, but it's a bit wishy-washy for a front door, I'd prefer a strong colour like a royal blue or f & b's 'cook's blue'

crazyguy

royal blue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ormus

greyish blue.
or bluey grey.
can never make my mind up.

Doozergirl

I've had a Chapell Green front door.



And Oval Room Blue.

shar46y

Doozergirl, your front door looks gorgeous! It looks a lot lighter than the colour card. Did you use the actual F&B paint or get it matched?

The decorator says he will use Dulux and suggested the Heritage range but they don't seem to have many blue-greens.

dcwho

shar46y wrote: »

Doozergirl, your front door looks gorgeous! It looks a lot lighter than the colour card. Did you use the actual F&B paint or get it matched?

The decorator says he will use Dulux and suggested the Heritage range but they don't seem to have many blue-greens.

I like that color too, but do you think this is good match with your red-brick house? I would personally think it looks better with white-colored house isn't it?

I think if i were you, i would probably use more bold vibrant color against the brick-colored background.... bold blue maybe?

divorcingjack

I'm having the same dilemma!

We are just about to put our house in the market and I'm procrastinating because I have to pick a colour. All the inside of the house is F&B ish (colour-matched of course - very MSE) and I'm torn between greeney/bluey and gray.

I've seen some fab gray front doors and think it looks very contemporary. Our house is solid dark gray stone.

This is my current favourite - French Grey

http://borderoak.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-2.html

Good luck picking!

dj

Yorkie1

I have a red brick house and a signal red (think pillar box) front door. Looks very striking!

Doozergirl

I've used F&B. I'm a purist. F&B use natural pigments whereas Dulux is all chemical based colour. You will never get an exact matxh on the chalkiness and depth of colour with a colour match. Whilst it's expensive, it isn't prohibitively so when you're simply talking about enough paint for a front door.

Red and green are conplimentary colours, it would still look lovely againt a red brick house but I suggest you use magnolia woodwork paint if you want it to look 'posh'. I'll post you a picture of my hall later on when I'm home. Oval room blue is very different and darker.