Painted my awful UPVC front door - before / after pictures

[missfliss]

New front door was going to be £1k ish.

Saw all the Frenchic paint forums and decided 'what the hell' we are mid loft conversion and so no more cash to Chuck around.

Cost: sugar soap, sandpaper, masking tape, paint £19

It looks pretty good ! Certainly much better.

Took 3 coats of Frenchic al fresco paint in 'after midnight'.

Sharing if it helps

That looks really good - I love the colour

This is really beautiful. Well done you

Top job there!

Wow! I hate my white uPVC door but can't replace it at the moment. Wonder if this will work? Did you do the inside as well?

it's definitely worth doing - lots of examples if you google 'Frenchic front door'

I did do the inside too.

Gorgeous! Well done you, it looks fab

It looks good but are you advertising that brand of paint?

No Arietty I'm not advertising it.

Sorry. You just reminded me of the Valpar (sp?) groupies for a minute there.

I don’t want to get stuck halfway through a uPVC repaint job gone wrong with watery paint because of viral marketing.

I painted horrible brown UVPC windows as a stopgap until we could afford to replace. They still looked good when we removed them 7 years later. We used a UVPC primer (I think Ranch International) and then F&B exterior eggshell paint

It looks exactly like the TARDIS!

Arietty - I actually am on the loft conversion thread with a few others. As an aside on there I put some pics up of the frankly awful first coat of this that went on.

Someone asked how it turned out in the end so I updated it and they were impressed, and like me, surprised you could actually paint a UPVC front door.

Believe it or not I am sharing just to be helpful - no other reason. You can check my posting history if you are so inclined.

I'm pretty chuffed that I don't have to spend more, and I'm using a brand because I've seen lots of real life recommendations.

If you are interested here is the disastrous first coat. It took three.

I did not know you can do this. Love how you painted the cat flap too.

Do you have a cat?.

@Pinkywoo you have no idea how happy that comment will make DH

@Fluffycloudland77 yes I do. Here she is right now in real time. Very stressed as you can see ...

The colours beautiful

Wow it looks great! Well done you.

So pleased you chose a colour to compliment your cat, OP.

It looks amazing.

@FamilyOfAliens she is definitely a key factor in the decor choices here.

She is about to be disturbed from her reverie as I have to get up for work now. She will be most unimpressed...

Thank you for sharing, it looks amazing, beautiful colour too.

She does look frazzled. A nice bowl of fresh salmon will see her through this difficult time.

That looks great! How is it close up, are there brush marks?

It's pretty good closeup. This was when it was still drying. The paint is self levelling.

It’s nice, it’s gone full on shameless to Kirstie Allsop.