What Color to Paint Your Front Door
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Why paint your front door something boring (or at least uninteresting to you) when you can make your house the most memorable one on the block with a color you love? Go sunny with a cheery yellow, demure with a dove gray, or bold with a true red. After all, your front door is your home's first impression, so make it a good one.
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ANNIE SCHLECHTER
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Front Door: New York State of Mind
Gary McBournie turned to nature to inspire the color of his front door in Nantucket: "When I did this house thirty miles out at sea, it seemed only natural to include a blue or two in the palette. And, when used against drifts of blooming hydrangea, the effect is magical!"
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Paint Color: New York State of Mind
Eric Piasecki
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Front Door: Umbria Red
For their Millbrook, New York country house, Peter Pennoyer and Katie Ridder used a punchy shade of red that pops against bright white.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Brigette Romanek Studio
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Front Door: Off-White
Use a soft off-white with a touch of gray for a cozy shabby bungalow like Romanek Design Studio did for this Southern California home.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Amy Neunsinger
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Front Door: Devonshire Green
Designer Lindsay Reid's Mediterranean-inspired Los Angeles bungalow welcomes visitors with a muted green door.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Paint Color: Devonshire Green
TONY SOLURI
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Front Door: Yellowcake
"This chartreuse color provides a contemporary counterpoint to this 1940s natural cedar shake cottage in Michiana Shores," says designer Steve Kadlec.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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WERNER STRAUBE
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Front Door: Pitch Black
Accentuate the graphic aesthetic of steel frame windows by painting shutters and the front door a deep pitch black. As you can see in this home designed by Corey Damen Jenkins, black details, like on the front door, will sharpen and ground a bright white home.
Lara Robby
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CONROY TANZER
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Lara Robby/Studio D
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Victoria Pearson
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Front Door: Off Black
A black door helps modernize the whitewashed brick exterior of this California Cape Cod designed by Parrish Chilcoat and Joe Lucas.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Bill Ingram
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Front Door: Salmon Soufflé
Bill Ingram's choice for a client's San Antonio home comes with a backstory: "The wife is known for her affection for color, particularly her signature coral, and she asked if we could use it somewhere on the house's exterior. When I said let's do the front door coral and paint the shutters a complementary blue, her eyes lit up!"
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Paint Color: Salmon Soufflé
MAX KIM-BEE
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Front Door: Card Room Green
"We felt that this vibrant green was a welcoming hue that created a pleasant contrast to our classic white New England shingled cottage," say Alison and Michael Brewer of Gray Wade Design & Development. "Not to mention it's a bright spot when the Maine fog rolls in!"
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Paint Color: Card Room Green
MAX KIM-BEE
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Front Door: Island Orange
"This Hermès orange door was a great way to contrast the muted colors of the house and the fresh green landscape," says Tiffany Denny of Marc-Michaels Interior Design.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Paint Color: Island Orange
Peter Murdock
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Front Door: Newburyport Blue
Lindsey Lane designed this Florida bungalow with "a fresh take on clean-lined tropical" in mind.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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Paint Color: Newburyport Blue
MAX KIM-BEE
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Front Door: Citron
John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon of Madcap Cottage aren't afraid of color, as evidenced by the front door of their Catskills home, a converted schoolhouse. "People find color and pattern to be scary, but we like to show how you can have fun with it," says Nixon.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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COURTESY OF CHRISTINE MARKATOS DESIGN
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Front Door: Stunning
A rich blue with purple undertones puts a new spin on this traditional exterior designed by Christine Markatos Lowe.
Lara Robby/Studio D
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COURTESY OF NEIMAN TABER ARCHITECTS
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Front Door: Plum Royale
For a country estate in Greenwich, Jamie Drake went with a vivid shade of bright plum.
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What Color to Paint Your Front Door
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