Fast forward fourteen years. The shutters were rotting and had to come down. The lack of contrast caused the house to look monochromatic. And I was just tired of the red. Bleh. I was not ready to hang new shutters until we address the gutter issue. But, I felt like contrasting front doors right now would be the answer to making me happy with the curb appeal.
What a search it was! I had pinned lots of blue front doors in search of the right color to go with my red brick house. I love blue and I knew it was the answer. Until it wasn't. The house went from bleh to Woah!--Not sure where to focus my eyes! The blue I had was lovely, but I realized the variant hues of the brick coupled with the teakwood colored roof was just too much! The oak in the front yard was about to get a big shape-up which would make it all more visible. Nope. Blue was not the color.
Green like my old shutters could have been the color. But, I wanted something different.
Before heading to Ace Hardware and buying too many sample colors to add to my dilemma, I got smart and took a real closeup look at the dark tones in the brick AND the roof color. I looked at them with paint chips in hand at different times of the day, in sunlight and shadows. And I kept being drawn back to a color I loved that terrified me at the same time--purple. Not Barney-purple, or Mardi Gras-purple. More of a purplish-charcoal-brownish color. It's Benjamin Moore Deep Caviar.
The door colors are similar to the darkest bricks and the roof color in the shadows
Here, you can see the darker brick though the storm doors make it harder to see the color.
I lightly buffed the old brass hardware with a superfine grit sandpaper to bring out some shine.
Here, you can see the darker brick though the storm doors make it harder to see the color.
A better view.
I am very happy at how they provide some contrast, but are not distracting.
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