I’m looking for advice on new color for front door. I lean towards blue and green tones, but not sure if they compliment the brick.
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- “Your color palette, floating canopy, roof lines: wow. The brick exudes warmth (which suggests the color of the vertical siding is not as warm as it could be). I wouldn’t do any blue-too “cold” and will conflict with the overall warm palette. A burnt orange, perhaps (with taupe on the vertical siding)?”
- “Blue would be the opposite of orange on the color wheel, therefore an excellent choice with your brick! Personally, I’d go for coral/pink. I think it’s perfection with orange brick.”
- “You could respect the colors of the window trim/garage door, or non-brick surface. Or introduce a rich red, not very bright, which is more a non-color. I would suggest bringing a good photo of the house into photoshop and change it digitally to see how it might look, could make it easier to decide. In my opinion, the least number of different colors introduced into the scheme, the more elegant the taste.”
- “A royal blue/ brighter blue would compliment the brick.”
- “We did a lime/moss green and we have cedar trim elsewhere on the house. My best advice is to go to the store (e.g. a good paint store like Sherwin Williams) and bring home actual paint swatches because the color balance of the screen on your phone or computer is likely not going to give you a good representation of how that color actually looks.”
- “Black – it will match the garage door, and amazing feng shui.”
- “Buy samples of the colors you like at Samplize. They are big and you can get a great idea.”
- “Orange and blue are complementary colors – your brick has a reddish/orange hue so blue would look great.”
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