What Color is Your Front Door ?

[Ridgerunner]

According to Wikipedia that's part of it, but a major part was that it was easier to keep a dairy barn clean if the insides were whitewashed. Once a year you blast off the inside and the flaking whitewash comes off, bringing dirt with it. Then you apply a new coat with fresh insecticidal properties.

The article did not mention it, but a barn with a white interior makes it much easier to see things. When you are working in a dairy barn that can be important. I painted the shelves in a purpose-built storage room a light bright orange, partly because it was a return to Lowe's and thus cheap, but I wanted a bright color so I could find things better. My wife was horrified at my choice but it was my storage room in a separate building she never visits. The walls were white.

 

[baymule]

I haven't even given front door color a thought. Vinyl siding is boring beige, doors are melting snow-sand splashed white. I like the idea of a fun color to annoy my family. Ridge, love the orange walls for your storage room. Oops paint can lead you down some interesting places!

 

[Nyboy]

I swear guy on next block used oops paint on outside of house, no one wold pick that color.

 

[baymule]

Nyboy what about a dark blue?

 

[catjac1975]

I swear guy on next block used oops paint on outside of house, no one wold pick that color.

A house in town was painted bright pink in many shades with white. Everyone made fun of it. The man built a mansion for his wife and her favorite color was pink. She died a week before they moved into her dream house. Years late it was repainted to modest NE colors. My friends husband is color blind and he loved that pink house. I guess the high contrast was appealing to his eye.

 

[thistlebloom]

Our newly former neighbors painted their house a lavendery blueish purple, if you can visualize that , and the mailbox to match, but left the mailbox post lipstick red. It probably made giving directions to their house a lot easier.
"................yeah, then hang a right and drive until you feel nauseous, that's our house..."

The new neighbors were moved in for an entire 48 hours until they repainted. Much easier on the eyes now.

 

[catjac1975]

Renters in our town painted the house they were in bright purple because the homeowner refused to pay for the paint. Quite an ugly stir.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Whenever I look at a paint job and say "That is ugly, that is garish, that should not have been allowed" I always remember this little book I was read as a child

 

[Nyboy]

Went with Ralph Lauren sugar plum, hope it drys much darker. Macho kennel boy says its pink suppose to be a burgundy

 

[Nyboy]

A house in town was painted bright pink in many shades with white. Everyone made fun of it. The man built a mansion for his wife and her favorite color was pink. She died a week before they moved into her dream house. Years late it was repainted to modest NE colors. My friends husband is color blind and he loved that pink house. I guess the high contrast was appealing to his eye.

That is so romantic and sad