French door stress!

[CozzieG]

Help!
We're having a kitchen extension and the plan was to have French doors into the garden. This will be great as we don't currently have access into the garden. We are having anthracite UPVC windows externally and white internally. The builder has suggested just having one door to let in more light than double French doors with a fixed panel next to it, or this panel could be a smaller door instead of two equal doors. I'm not sure a small door is needed.
Anyhow, my husband has suggested anthracite external and white inside to match the windows but I feel this might look ugly. It's not helping that I'm not that keen on anthracite and wanted matt black but didn't really push it and all of a sudden the windows appeared with wood grain too that I hadn't expected! I'd had dreams of a heritage black aluminium door but seem to have ran into issues with sourcing this (we need triple glazed as that's what our plans stipulate) and the ones we've found will cost silly amounts! I then saw heritage flush UPVC doors but they don't stock them locally in the same brand. Now I just feel stressed lol. Can anyone tell me if they've done anything similar or have any advice on colours etc. I am generally freaking out that my lovely new kitchen will have an ugly white UPVC door to ruin every day lol.

White uPVC looks awful in any house.

Most people have external doors and windows the same colour. As in the grey ones I posted. When you fix the doors open, you would see the interior is white, not grey. I’m not a fan of upvc either but better quality costs more. Two doors with no door bars let in most light. I have both and the French doors are better for light and access to outside.

It clashes with only a very few brick colours - it’s by far the most versatile. I’ve seen a lot more coloured frames (be it anthracite, black, brown or green) looking dreadful because they don’t go with the colour of the house than I have white. Which is why a majority of houses have it.