Going BOLD! or TOO Bold?

[sparkles2307]

Now I'm inspired to paint my front door! DH will flip out. He's very "white walls" traditional... I have ONE chocolate wall in my country gold living room and he thinks its horrid. I need to figure out what color to do the house tho... its sage green with black trim right now, gross. My mom had one house that was grey/white with blue trim and a cranberry door, then the other house was cream with "rosewood" trim and a blue door. We had patriotic houses..... It seems that the standard color out here in our area is white with forest green or black trim.

 

[Carol Dee]

As much as my mom likes to nag... I love her dearly and can't imagine her not here to nit pick what I do or wear.

vfem, thanks for the hugs. I think our Mom's would have had a lot in common. nitpicking was a favorite past time!

Carol I am sorry about your Mom...Mine has been gone now 26 year and I still miss her...

Momofdrew, thanks for the condolences.

 

[Carol Dee]

Now I'm inspired to paint my front door! DH will flip out. He's very "white walls" traditional... I have ONE chocolate wall in my country gold living room and he thinks its horrid. I need to figure out what color to do the house tho... its sage green with black trim right now, gross. My mom had one house that was grey/white with blue trim and a cranberry door, then the other house was cream with "rosewood" trim and a blue door. We had patriotic houses..... It seems that the standard color out here in our area is white with forest green or black trim.

sparkles, my DH says *House are white, barns are red* Needless to say we have a white house with dark green trim , BORING.

 

[sparkles2307]

Now I'm inspired to paint my front door! DH will flip out. He's very "white walls" traditional... I have ONE chocolate wall in my country gold living room and he thinks its horrid. I need to figure out what color to do the house tho... its sage green with black trim right now, gross. My mom had one house that was grey/white with blue trim and a cranberry door, then the other house was cream with "rosewood" trim and a blue door. We had patriotic houses..... It seems that the standard color out here in our area is white with forest green or black trim.

sparkles, my DH says *House are white, barns are red* Needless to say we have a white house with dark green trim , BORING.

I'd accept a white house if I could paint the door anything I wanted.

 

[vfem]

Now I'm inspired to paint my front door! DH will flip out. He's very "white walls" traditional... I have ONE chocolate wall in my country gold living room and he thinks its horrid. I need to figure out what color to do the house tho... its sage green with black trim right now, gross. My mom had one house that was grey/white with blue trim and a cranberry door, then the other house was cream with "rosewood" trim and a blue door. We had patriotic houses..... It seems that the standard color out here in our area is white with forest green or black trim.

sparkles, my DH says *House are white, barns are red* Needless to say we have a white house with dark green trim , BORING.

I'd accept a white house if I could paint the door anything I wanted.

Only reason we have a beige house is because the 2 types of trim I picked only came in white, grey, beige or 'sand' (a darker beige) and since I did 2 kinds of trim they had to have exact match colors.

I am SERIOUSLY thinking about taking the shutters off the house and painting them to match the door, and painting the back door now to match. Hubby will flip....

I HATE WHITE!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

Ok, I really do have a very LOUD personality when I come shining through. When we resided the house we went from white to beige. Big jump? Not really. I thought I could let myself out through bold colors in the garden and while that's still in progress, I want my garden to fit with my home and not loss the house in the background.

So I got to the store and decided I was DONE with the ugly rust front door that was painted so poorly... I've been wanting to for 4 years but just never decided on a color. My husband was pushing for a royal purple, but it was just too dark, and would fade into the shady north facing HUGE front porch. I wanted to make it bright and welcoming. Well, I fell in LOVE with a paint called "Japanese Fern" and I was sold.

Now I'm trying to decide if I like it. First hubby almost flipped on me... and my mother went NUTS with many nasty words that bare not repeating. But as the weeks have passed, my garden has begun to come back. The greens are green again, and no longer red and brown... but it still has a ways to go... pink tulips are blooming and my pots are slowing being filling with gorgeous shade loving plants and my husband now says, the color is growing on him, and in a good way. He's finally seeing my vision come to life.

The question is, is it still too much? Overload? I keep telling myself to wait until everything really fills in and decide. I still like it... but I'm still waiting on LOVING it. You know? Just looking for opinions.

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/5842_img00520.jpg
Sorry, cell phone picture... I'll get a better one with my good camera when the porch and front garden have filled in.

Too colorful? I thought this was the before picture. Does your Mom own the house? Did the hubby do the painting? I say whoever does the work should pick out the color. Tell them they can paint it any color they want. HAHA. I would stain the cement porch to reflect the color of the trim. Add some of the green in the detail of the posts. It will frame the doorway.

 

[Kassaundra]

It suprises me how many husbands care that much about the color of anything in or on the house. My husband doesn't care anything about decor or color or style whatever I do is okay w/ him. And even if he HATED a color I chose I garuntee he wouldn't hate it as much as he would the paint brush to change it!!!!! lol

 

[897tgigvib]

Wellp, about the paint brush problem, even THAT can be minimized! Paint stores are like toy stores to a man. One of the best brands of Paint Brush are called PURDY. Purdy's are purdy good. They make real silky models. Open the fine envelope cover. Cool design for a paint brush cover. A 3 and a half inch sash (angled) Purdy Latex only brush is a work of art. Oh boy! Great for "cutting in" those corners, doing the windows without getting a drop on the frame. Get a 2 inch sash (angled) for painting the frame, shoot for nary a drop on the glass.

So, you want to make sure you get paint that does not drip as much. Oh boy!!! Epoxy Latex! That good stuff. Even smells good. And then, get colors to match the smells. Deep chocolate brown. Smells like chocolate. amazing. Slightly reddish Peach. Smells like a jar of peaches. even more amazing.

Then come the really cool buckets!!! One gallon buckets, with awesome handles! Oh, and they make clips for the bucket handles to hang the bucket on the ladder. Every painter knows not to move a ladder until the bucket is safely away from the ladder. Oh by golly, they got rollers too. Cool rollers! not talking about those cheapo dime store rollers. Roller heads fluffy and strong. look how well its made. Ohhh, they have awesome hotrod handles for the rollers too!!! Ergonomic rubber parts, fancier than a colgate toothbrush or than a Schick razor with 5 blades!

Gonna want to keep these things all nice and clean. Better get a 5 gallon bucket or 2 for that! Oh man, look at those painting tarps! those'll last 40 years, and will have drips on them in decades to come that will tell history. That red. That was the deck steps 27 years ago. That pea green was the kitchen 14 years ago. can't tell all the shades of white primer on it though...

O! Looky! Wizzers! and Wizzer handles too! They have a 30 inch long reach! Oh, and thinking of that, how do we do the stairwell without the 12 foot extension handle? cool yellow fiberglass! gonna be fun learning how to use that wizzer to cut in...

Uh, thinking of it, better keep your husband away from the section of the paint store where they have...shhh...(airless sprayers and pressure washers)...i was quiet...or else thousands of bucks will be spent, and you might have to put your husband's name in the yellow pages as a painter contractor to pay for those new toys. as it is, neighbors will ooo and ahhh at his new painting toys, er, tools, and will want him to paint their houses. Wellp, if he does see and get those airless things and pressure washer machines, he'll be needing a covered trailer for them, the new shocks, the tail hitch...

All this could happen if you take him to the paint store to get a Purdy paint brush he'll enjoy using...

 

[thistlebloom]

Wow Marshall, you seem to have a serious passion for painting! It was almost contagious

 

[MuranoFarms]

I LOVE the door! It's a nature color, so it doesn't look out of place outside....and when you leave the door open it will bring a splash of nature indoors!
Good job!