What color do you paint your front door and garage door when you have a red brick house?

Question

What color do you paint your front door and garage door when you have a red brick house?

Answer 1

I think a nice dark cream colour compliments red brick houses the nicest, perhaps "double clotted cream" my dad's a painter and he uses clotted cream against most red brick places. Hope you find what you're looking for.  

Answer 2

I had a natural brick home a while back.  I painted the door black.  It 'sounds' dismal, but it was very striking in contrast with the brick.

Answer 3

it depends which direction your home entrance faces. if north - door should be colored in blue, black or white color. if south - red, orange, brick red. etc. etc.

when re-decorating home, bedroom or any other room, always try to choose colors according to feng shui. in this case you will activate powers of 5 elements (water, earth, metal, wood and fire) and support all your lucky "areas" - this will attract love, romance, wealth, money, prosperity, luck etc etc

feng shui color blog: http://fengshuicolors.info/blog/

feng shui color guide: http://www.traditional-fengshui.com/feng...

feng shui bedroom ideas and tips http://fengshui.traditional-fengshui.com...

good luck!

Answer 4

I think white is great, but you might also try a slate gray color. I know it is traditional to paint the front door red in some places, and if you want to do this, I would choose a variation of red that complements your brick, not the regular bright red.

Answer 5

benjamin moore has a colour viewer tool. i tried out a house, made it brick coloured and the trim i liked best was a dark charcoal grey. it's fun to try out different combos.

http://www.benjaminmoore.com/bmpsweb/por...

Answer 6

garage doors are not very appealing to look at if they are painted a light colour it will take away from the house, so the best way is to blended into to brick work and add other things such as planters on the sides .

http://www.securityshuttersystems.co.uk/...

the front door

http://www.midwestmanufacturing.com/Imag...

Answer 7

play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find colors that you like. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family & color name, the "painted" rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:

http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/

I think "woodsy brown" (# 2924) would look terrific.

You can also take a photo of your house & upload it to the makeover gallery on this website:

http://www.roomvues.com/

You can get color suggestions & they'll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.

Answer 8

a friend painted her house barn red with a mint green door.

sounds awful but actually looked nice when she got done with all her trimming

Answer 9

Suggestions:

white

cream

rose pink

peach

golden yellow

hunter green

forest green [ tinge of blue ]

teal blue

smoke blue

caramel

gray

If houses around you are brick, don't use same colors as neighbors on either side of you, or directly across the street.

brown