AIBU to do this ... go look at your front door and tell me!

[cookcleanerchaufferetc]

I need opinions asap!

I have painted the outside of my front door a new blue colour. I was planning to paint the inside of the front door white. However, DP has just chipped in that this is stupid, the whole door must be blue. My thoughts are that when the door is closed white is brighter plus blue doesn't go with decor ... not hideous but white is neutral and blends in.

So should the front and back fo the door be the same colour or is it acceptable to have the inside only white?

Please give opinions!

[mistlethrush]

Inside white is fine.

No one would have a lovely bright red door otherwise!

[Mumswang]

Ours is green outside, white in. I think all our doors have been different in and out

[deemented]

The inside always gets painted the same as the skirtings etc.

[HerHissyness]

No, I am in inventory clerk, I check tenants in and out most days of the week.

I see, and closely look at more fronts and backs of doors than most people have had hot dinners!

The property I was at on Monday, Blue externally, white internally. It's fine, it matches the decor inside.

[minipie]

Inside white, definitely.

In fact I think pretty much every painted front door I've ever seen has been white on the inside (regardless of outside colour).

[Fimbo]

Blue externally, white internally. The blue inside would be hideous.

[Tee2072]

Mines treated wood inside and out. I'm no help at all. Just felt like answering.

[LineRunner]

I never even noticed this before! As others say, colour outside, off-white inside.

Normals.

[Ormirian]

Inside has to be white! Or it will look weird. DP is a fule!

[AmberLeaf]

White inside.

[AgainWhen]

White on inside. This is exactly the kind of stupid interiors opinion my DH will occasionally come out with. I feel your pain.

[supadupapupascupa]

Red outside, White inside

[Lambskin]

Mine is green out and white in. Agree with deemented it should match the skirting boards. Would be far too dark otherwise.

[MrSpoc]

His your Husband may be got a little OCD?

I always thought the inside of a front door should be painted black with yellow spots

[strawberrie]

I'm sitting in the living room and realising that I can't confidently say what colour the inside of our door is. It must be white, surely?

[AgainWhen]

otherwise it will look like the door is on back to front.

[OvO]

White inside.

My front door is red and it would look dreadful if it was red inside.

Your DH is a fool, a FOOL.

[AxlRose]

Mine is black outside and white inside

[StayingDavidTennantsGirl]

White inside. Tbh, I prefer all internal doors to be either natural wood, varnished or waxed, or painted white. Of course you paint the inside of the door to match the woodwork in your hall.

Our front door is a UPVC door, and is brown pretend wood outside and white inside.

Is your dp going to accept the mumsnet concensus?

[portaloo]

My front door is the same colour on both sides. Brown, because it's wooden.

[buzzsore]

I don't need to look, I already know.

Outside is coloured, inside is white. Like someone else said, nobody would ever have a bright coloured door if you had to have the same on the inside. It'd be madness, I tell you!

[KnitterNotTwitter]

Mine is blue/green outside and white inside... it would be weird to have a colour inside... very weird...

[MackerelOfFact]

I was about to say the same thing as SDTG, even my parents' plastic front door is white inside and black outside. Only doors which are solid wood and simply varnished/stained (ie. not painted at all) seem to have the same colour inside and out. Or white UPVC ones.

[YellowDinosaur]

Mine is white inside and out.

However your dh is unreasonable in this scenario. By whose rules do doors have to be the same colour inside and out? Clearly inside the door is painted to match the decor in your hall. Outside can be whatever colour you like.

[YellowDinosaur]

Oh and cross posted with Mackerel - my door is painted wood not upvc and is same inside and out. But probably only because our builders are too lazy to paint it a different colour on the outside! And while I would never previously have chosen to have a white door I actually really like it