Space design is trending up! Good call on the Sputnik light.
https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/shop-northwest/space-the-latest-frontier-for-home-decor/
Space design is trending up! Good call on the Sputnik light.
https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/shop-northwest/space-the-latest-frontier-for-home-decor/
Front Door Colors
OK, bring on the peanut gallery!!! I have narrowed it down to three colors:
Coral - my agent loves this one because she says that it highlights the big blooming tree in the back of the house. She says the tree is gorgeous when you drive up to the house. Of course, I don’t even notice the tree… except that it is shedding all over the roof all the time. It took one of the guys 2 hours to try to sweep off just the A Frame charcoal shingle part of the roof the other day.
Mild Teal - I went back to the drawing board and found a subtle teal that wasn’t as bold as the original blue. I think this might be the best tone for the dark background.
Chartreuse! - OK, I know we have haters but I just wanted to try it. I want the house to stand out and make people look a second time when they drive by. This might be one of the few architectural styles that can really take the chartreuse front door.
I painted up all 3 on a board and took a lot of pictures. Make sure you go back to one of the overall pictures from the street and consider the big tree in the background. The tree has pink/red blossoms on it about 4 months of the year.
I would like to narrow it down to 2 of the 3. Then I might paint up even bigger boards with the samples and look at it again from the street. I want the door to pop and bring the eye through the courtyard from the street.
By the way… there is a blog which I am not allowed to link, but it is a couple that transform (flip) old houses in the San Jose area. Read… million dollar tear downs. Spruceandpine. They did a mid century flip and you can see the before and afters January 2018. Very cool house and great landscape designs She had a display of different door colors up on the blog
So, let the voting begin. Photos loaded to our Flickr group. Remember, we only have to eliminate one
BTW… it’s not Limon Fresca. It was another color I found that looks much better in real life. But, just trying to get an overall feel of the right color
My opinions/vote:
My vote is 1. Blue, 2 Coral, distant 3 chartreuse
Maybe get a leaf blower? Even an electric one should be fine for blossoms.
Although I’m normally with team blue, out of these three choices I’d go with the coral. I agree with @doschicos, it has the most curb appeal.
I like that original vibrant blue color best:
https://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/100771386@N05/43394509754/in/pool-3775315@N22
The coral against the house color reminds me too much of Halloween.
^^ If the orgiginal vibrant blue is still in the running I go with that one too.
Chartreuse drowns in the color of the green grass by the front gate and looks like an extension of that patch of grass, not like a front door. The teal (aqua) is outstanding. I would not try to paint the door to match the color of the plants. Plants are supposed to accent the house colors. The teal door will look awesome next to a large planter with bright red and pink flowers. Hard to find good bright blue flowers to accent the coral. So my vote is for the teal!
Blue, coral, chartreuse
@notrichenough - check out Greenworks lithium ion battery-powered leaf blower. That lightweight sucker blows hurricane speed winds. The 80v battery lasts a long time.
https://www.amazon.com/Greenworks-PRO-80V-125-MPH/dp/B00R6Z4SEQ
Back to color selection.
Your August 18 picture captioned “front painted” shows your earlier coral sample and the whole house, including the tree. Re coral, when considering the whole view, between the orangish tree and roof next door, the door seems to lose prominence. The blue picks up the sky color quite nicely; I like it better than the bright blue. The chartreuse does stand out but to me just looks completely out of place - jarring rather than interesting. Overall, I like the blue best but the coral is a close second. If this is a Top-Two Primary, chartreuse loses.
Yellow/gold and white flowers would look nice with the coral or blue.
TEAL gets my vote.
its a color that looks good with just about any exterior color and will NOT make potential clients instantly react with “yuke”.
DH doesn’t like the “yellow” at all - his choice is the “red”.
Mind you, he grew up in a yellow house and his bedroom was the ugliest shade of institutional green imaginable. So probably his opinion should be weighted accordingly.
Coral, Chartreuse, Teal
Teal, Coral, no way on the Chartreuse.
I’d like the chartreuse if it were a tad yellower, but I’m obviously an outlier here, so I’ll quietly slip away again.
I like the teal. The other two not at all.