Help me choose a front door colour - Black or Green

[Monica101]

My heart says Green (Chartwell Green)

My head says Black

I have a 1930's red brick semi. I have a black step and here is the rub, Upvc windows with coloured glass. The glass in red/green/yellow and blue. I didn't choose them btw!

I love the Chartwell Green, but will it look bad with my house. Shall I go for black. Current door is awful Upvc white plastic.

Pics are my door and window. Green door or black door?

Thanks

I took a very nosy dog walk today & conducted a survey to see which colours are used in my road & which look good.

Interestingly my favorite house has a black door - original or original style+ stained glass BUT the colour (or lack of it) is wrong - it's a bit daring/drab/flat/still.

There are several different shades of blue, including navy, bright blue, teal blue - all quite nice, fit it, fine with stained glass

There are a few greens..dark greens mainly & one that looks the colour you like.

A couple of reds, a yucky bright pinky red, a dark red (nice but I wouldn't go for it) & an ok dark pinky red.

A few whites. All fine.

A few wood (probably effect & stain glass, replica) 1 of stripped-but-not-varnished wood. And a couple of rougue greys.

All the doors are set in white frames, all have white windows too.

We have a 1950's house with dark green front door. I thought I wanted black, but glad I didn't choose it.

My choice for your house is 1930's style, pale green (chartwell ?) & matching stained glass .

Oops, didn't see your last post, yes that's a good red colour. The other red in our road is almost a burgundy. I'm just not a red fan .

If your neighbourhood is anything like mine, any door visible from the road should be white as a Dove.

Thankfully I have a side entrance, so have chosen turquoise!

Thank you willowisp for your survey . Very useful as no one on my street seems to have stuck to the original 1930's door.

The more I see the red the more I think it looks like Noddy's door!

I agree a matching glass would be ideal, my finances don't stretch that far (sob). But light green with a white surround and a neutral glass sounds classy and fitting. Relieved to hear it's not vital to match glass colour to door colour.

Dh is dying for a red door I think! We just bought a new front door. It is glossy black with a window, we have reddish brick. Garage is going to be painted black I guess, the trim is cream. We plan on selling so choose neutrals. Red door next house perhaps!

The green is nice but everywhere. At least in the area where I live all the houses bought by developers are painted this same green and it's starting to look quite tired

If you do an image search for "sage door", google shows a lot of nice green ones and most have red brick, and are very nice. Also, "olive door" for differant ones.

We have red. It's fab and I love it.

On a 60s house but just wanted an opportunity to share the red door :)

Glad to have helped I remember agonising over my door choice !

Shame you can't stretch to the stain glass in the door - what's the difference in price ? (Considers organising whip round). I guess you could always replace it later ?

I have stain glass envy

That is a fab door kerberos, red is very good feng shui too (I've reached a new level of desperation looking up that but still....)

Yes agonising is the word willowisp, I think i've decided then I haven't...

It's costing £1365 and I need to restrain myself to that being my top limit as the house does not warrant a bespoke door though door lovers stay away from the London Door Company's website if you don't want to have door envy!

Thanks for all the advice, much appreciated.