Kelly @ JAX Decor & Design
Thanks to Julia at Hooked on Houses for getting me Hooked on Fridays!! I had so much fun with my post about circles last week, that I just had to do it again!!
This week, I’m hooked on delicious doors (like the ones in the pic above, from All Things Cool). So, put on your shoes and let’s take a walk around the neighbourhood and check out some unique and welcoming front doors :-)
When we were in Luxembourg over the Christmas holidays in 2007, I saw this front door:
And so began my obsession with doors! I love the colour and the graphic lines of this blue one. The hardware is nice too :-)
Walking west from Luxembourg City, I spotted some other doors that I liked. Check out this glossy black door with the black iron fence beside the walkway…
Beautiful wood door and another nice black iron fence:
I was really struck by the whole porch area here rather than just the door. Love the metal work with the circles above the landing and the large oval window. Imagine colourful flowers blooming in the urns on each side of the stairs…
A pretty gray door…
And one more Luxembourg door — love the metal detailing on both the door and the oval window above it…
Now, if you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ve probably caught on to the fact that I love colour!! So, my hooked on delicious doors post wouldn’t be complete without pics of some colourful front doors!! I had to really try hard to cut down the number of fabulous doors that I found on the Net. Sometimes Google is TOO good at finding what you’re looking for!! So this is just a small sampling of the doors I found. If you want to see more, just go to Google Image Search and type in the name of your favourite colour + doors.
So here we have some Irish doors in Kilkenny…
And a pink Irish door…
Green doors on a blue house…
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And an orange door accented with green trim. Even the house numbers are colourful!!
The red flowers look fantastic with the bright yellow door…
A turquoise door on an orange adobe house in Tucson — gorgeous landscaping!!
Two purple doors for the price of one!! Lovely curved gate at the end of the walkway…
I’m not usually a fan of plain white front doors… but when your house is electric pink, I guess a white door is OK :-)
A white door is also made more colourful when it’s surrounded by beautiful flowers…
How’s this for some super-duper delicious door colour?!
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And not exactly a door, but how could you not feel welcome seeing this bright blue gate left open for you to walk right on in?? :-)
 | As for my front door… it was white when we moved in. The following summer, I painted it BM Super Nova, a dark purple. I made the mistake of using oil paint. Don’t use oil paint on an exterior door, because it doesn’t “breathe” like latex paint and ends up cracking. Then you have to sand the flaky paint off and prime before you can repaint with latex. Ugh!!! |
 | So anyway, the next colour I painted the door was Sico Nunavut, a dark chocolate brown (I also painted all our interior doors Nunavut, which you can see here). And this time, I painted the white trim as well. |
 | Last summer, I decided to paint the door again – CIL Street Lamp Black, which is actually blue (or at least looks blue on our south-facing door). Excuse the green painter’s tape!! I like the new colour… but last fall, new people moved into the house next to ours. Not only did they paint the entire house the same colours as our house, but they got a new blue front door too. Grrrrrr… so, this summer I’ll be painting the door AGAIN. Probably a dark purple again, like BM Jester. |
