Three Exterior Door Color Prescriptions - From CurbAppealForDummies.com

These three door colors are very versatile, and work beautifully with stainless steel hardware.

Not only do they look beautiful with contrasting hardware in brushed stainless steel, they are interesting, inviting, and best of all, somewhat unexpected.

Fiery Opal is Benjamin Moore color that qualifies as a very intense cinnamon. It is strong and bright, and is a great tweak off of the traditional  bright red, barn red, or burgundy red front doors that are all too common. It is a step in a more youthful direction. We use it most often when a property has a strong orangish tone brick or stone, because it helps calm down an already visually intense color by reducing contrast. We then take the heat down further with soft, light-colored foliage, such as dusty miller, variegated flax lily, or nandina. We don't pair this color with dark greenery to avoid a permanently autumnal vibe. Pale yellows, creams, light sage-y greens all work well with Fiery Opal, and we often foil a medium charcoal-type gray as another calming accent color for shutters.

Tulsa Twilight is another Benjamin Moore color. It is a very unexpected near-black with an eggplant undertone. It's another geat color to use with orange or red brick. It also really pops out against a buttery yellow, and adds a touch of fortitude to entryway on houses with more whimsical color schemes in the neighborhood, in the periwinkle, peach, and pistachio color families. We often use it as a remedy to add some life to homes that are already painted some of less-desirable pastel-candy colors.

Eminent Bronze is another great prescription color for homes painted in light blue or shades of turquoise to update them.It is by Sherwin Williams. This color also looks very sophisticated on yellow houses, cream houses, and khaki-colored houses. It will also knock a peach-colored house into a more current look.It looks great with brushed stainless steel, and also with darker oiled-bronze hardware,

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