What Color is Your Front Door ?

[Nyboy]

@catjac1975 when I was on a house tour in Charleston,the tour guide said you paint porch ceiling sky blue so bees don't nest there. The bees are fooled into thinking its sky, don't know if I believe it, but a lot of porch ceilings are sky blue. Are bees color blind?

 

[Nyboy]

@Beekissed I like the green with the grey good eye.

 

[Smart Red]

My door are white. My window trim is white. I am a boring designer. Fortunately, my gardens are far more colorful.

Now that the inside is more colorful, I just might go wild with the outside as well. Of course, the multi-colored brick keeps white from being too plain.

First, however, I need (no, really I NEED) a new front door. DS says he'll make one for us this summer. The one I have has rotten brick molding that I patched up with wood putty and the sill is toast.

 

[catjac1975]

@catjac1975 when I was on a house tour in Charleston,the tour guide said you paint porch ceiling sky blue so bees don't nest there. The bees are fooled into thinking its sky, don't know if I believe it, but a lot of porch ceilings are sky blue. Are bees color blind?

My house is over 100 years old. When we painted the ceiling the first time it was white and I found the blue color when sanding. So I have kept it white since because of the charm of it. I figured it was an old tradition. I have noticed other porch ceilings in town are also blue. So either they copied me, Haha, or is was a known tradition of the past. That sounds like a silly old tale about the bees. But what do I know?

 

[Jeni Ann]

Love the colors Bee!
I see no sense in painting a door mostly cover by a banged up storm door. So I haven't.
At our last house (my dream home & I miss it sometimes) We had a full length screen/glass storm so I painted the front door a moss green to go with the warm tan (almost peach) house.

 

[Carol Dee]

I LOVED that HOUSE Sis, too bad you could not have picked it up and moved it to the country with you!

 

[ducks4you]

My front door is natural dark stain. The window storm door in front is white with glass panes. Then the door to the front porch is just aluminum.
BUT, my Steel back door is Royal Blue. I LOVE it, and I want to match my barn roof this summer with metal Royal Blue.

 

[Nyboy]

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/arc...-techniques/sw-article-pro-thewhysbehind.html

 

[Ridgerunner]

Nice fun article. I like the haints and why it might be insect repellent.

 

[Nyboy]

Isn't the insect repellent (lye) why farmers white washed inside of barns ?