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I had planned to write a few more posts about exterior colours before I covered painting your front door, however I have just done an interview for Melbourne Weekly all about sprucing up your exterior and I kept coming back to painting front doors.
The trend for 2012 is bright colours for a front door. Yellows, pinks, oranges, bright blues and apple greens.
The front cover of this months Country Style is fabulous and spot on with the bright door trend. It works so well if you have a dark charcoal exterior or on the other end a light main colour so the front door really pops.
If you have a brick home, it can be a challenge to add a bright colour. I tend to steer brick red brick home owners towards a beautiful black gloss door.
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The rule is tend to use for brick is to use a white on the door framework and trim to give the colour of the door some breathing space from the brick. Actually I do prefer a white trim for most doors that you want to make a feature.
Now just because bright colours are on trend, does not mean you can't update your door to a lovely pastel soft shade or even white, grey or black.
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I am repainting our front door soon from a fab orange colour I custom made similar to this colour chip {below} to a new neutral by Dulux called Unforgettable. The new colour is an almost white outside.
Why am I painting over the orange door? Well its because I am breaking one of my own rules for exteriors by having more than three main colours. Over time we have made changes and now we have 1. house colour 2. trim colour 3. garage door colour 4. front door colour 5. feature stone work.
It is all a bit busy for my taste, so the garage door and front door and being painted the same colour {Unforgettable} and letting the stone work have top billing.
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Before you go running of to the paint store, go outside and stand at the kerb and have a good look at your house. Is it in need of a little colour, or is to busy with more than 3 or 4 colours. I will write a post on how to add colour to your frontage if your not painting your door.
I will continue to source some inspirational front door images for you and collect them in a gallery for the Exterior Colour Guide. Stay tuned
