What colour shall I paint my front door?

[AnnaLegovah]

No funds available for a nice new door (sob) so I've decided to paint it instead. Our house is 1900 Edwardian(?) terrace, with soft cream painted brickwork. Door furniture is brass and the door itself is currently a navy blue.

Any ideas on what would look nice on this type of house? I like a bit of colour so dont really want grey or black. Anything too pale will require more cleaning right?

The people down the road from us have a really lovely, slightly dirty-coloured but still cheerful yellow. It really brightens up the entrance, I admire it each time I go by and then open my horrible upvc monstrosity

I do love a glossy red front door.

I dunno about yellow, isn't that too close to cream? And its bound to get grubby quick.

Like the idea of red...nobody else on the street has red, not sure if thats good or bad.

Ive been looking at the Farrow and Ball colours, my god theres loads of them!

It's good! Everyone else is just boring.

A bright red, love a red door! Or an egg shell green

Ours is farrow & ball green smoke in a gloss finish, I love it, it's a 'period' looking colour so fits in with the house (ours is late Victorian) but isn't too pale or too bright.

Black :)

Teal or petrol blue. Would look fab with the pale cream brickwork.

midnight blue, to my dad midnight blue is the colour front doors should be painted, the end

Looking at Farrow & ball - I quite like Incarnadine and card room green...

I think black though I know you said otherwise!

red is particularly prone to fade.

If it faces the sun, black is especially prone to blister or crack as it heats up.

If you have an Edwardian house, I hope it has a panelled wooden door. Dirt and dust will accumulate in the mouldings, so white will need frequent washing.

Green smoke is lovely littleoak, that would go with cream.

As the door is already blue I'd like to have something different. It's always seemed a bit dark to me as the door is West facing.

Mine is dark purple/plum, I've had lots of positive comments.

It is panelled piglet but its sadly not the original door - its a 4 panel with a glass half-arch panel towards the top. No idea what era it is. Most of our neighbours still have the original doors

Yes it goes nicely with cream, we have pale cream woodwork/exterior walls and it works well. Our door used to be navy blue as well and I wasn't sure about making the change but am v pleased with the result. It did take a few coats though.

Purple with green stripes - or spots perhaps? You'll never be bored!

We need to see a pic of the house and the door to decide

I like this colour

Ok I've managed to add a pic to my profile - its a bit out of date as the paint work is now totally cream and you cant see the door closely but it might help.

I see it is set into an open porch. That's good, as it will be protected from the worst of the weather.

I passed a period property the other day and the door was a bright turquoise. It looked fab and I made a mental note to paint the door of my house the same colour!

Red