Love black doors and yours looks fabulous! What kind of paint are you using?

That's beautiful! Plus you won't see all the annoying dirt marks around the door knob the way you do with white doors!

Wow, that looks great!

Our daughter painted the interior doors of her Raleigh home a shiny black and left the trimwork white. Her wall colors varied...from Cork to Sage Green. The look was spectacular. Go for the dark doors; they will look beautiful in your home.

The paint is Sherwin Williams' greenblack, it is the most "Charleston-looking" of all the different brands of that color and what we've already used on our exterior shutters. The finish is satin. We chose that because the semigloss just looked too shiny against our high gloss oil paint finish on the trim and I wanted something very quiet looking--- if that makes sense with black doors :)

They look great! I've been thinking of doing the same for several years now, and I'm still a big chicken!

That's a money shot there of your entry, kswl! Fabulous look, and not just the door color although that adds a nice bit of drama to an already beautiful space. Please keep adding pictures as the doors are finished. I'm really interested in seeing how it looks in place with solid doors and different lighting.

Deb

Wonderful!!!! I cannot wait to see more. You picked the perfect color!

It looks grreat! I am thinking about doing the inside of our front door black to match the exterior, but would probably need to convince DH about it.

oooooohhhhhhhh that looks GREAT!!! I love the dark doors - I just don't see them in our house. Which I guess is okay since I really don't "need" another project! I'll just keep consoling myself!

Yours are lovely!

tina

Looks great! Makes the space more interesting and unexpected, love it!

Like a moth to a flame the days I visit GW are the days you have posted. Love your new door color and love the thought which went into its color / finish (I happen to concur, based on that one, lonely [hint hint] picture).

Last year when I painted many of our interior doors high-gloss black I thought about what you'd written, that all but two of the rooms the doors face are of that dreamy greige color (BM's Cedar Key and Frappe), and another two are my own custom Rani Pank and P&L's British Brown); our (almost) universal interior trim is BM's Calming Creme (basically a creamy yellow -- I like that oil-based white which has yellowed look) In our house, the pure high-gloss black plays v. nicely with all. Again, in our setting I knew that anything other than high-gloss wouldn't read right.

Anyway, my point being I love your choice and look forward to seeing more, please. Whenever I uncover my (sports) banners I'll post a pic, too. Thank you for the reminder!

Happy Charleston Green -- me gusta mucho.

Sorry to hijack - but I am also intrigued with black doors. If I were to paint my entry door this gorgeous black on the outside/inside, would I then have to match all the interior doors to match, or could I just keep the entry door that color?

That pic of your entry makes me drool and causes me to want to "at least" do the front door!

LOVE it!!! Especially love it with your gloriously green walls!

Black is the new black!!! (says she of the black brick wall/fp)

That's gorgeous! I really like this trend...it one of those rare things that combines form with function...ie, looks amazing and will be easier to keep clean! :)

homestylelisa, I'm doing just my front and back door black. The rest of the doors will remain white. I have seen this many, many times here in the south. Looks great, so go for it.

I think the interior of the front door can be painted black and look fabulous even if all the other interior doors are white or another color.

This positive feedback is very heartening! Even though it is "just" paint it has made a huge impact. Our wood doors are currently stained with a very light stain that lets the door grain show through. For the wood purists, the thing to do would have been to strip and restain these a dark walnut color---and I did contemplate that, for about a nanosecond. The trouble and disruption of all that compared to just painting the doors, when I like the black better .... well, it was a no-brainer :) When I read my original post I gave the wrong impression about doors--- I love glossy doors in other settings, just not here. We tried a semigloss on these doors and they just did not look right with the overly glossy trim, perhaps because one was oil and one was acrylic, and that's why we went with satin.

Rmkitchen, again thanks for your kind words, you are too nice! I will post more photos as the doors get finished. We actually tried painting black on one side and white on the other, but I like the dark color so much we are doing it on both sides!

What a striking change . . . I love it! Big congrats on the choice!!!
Lynn

Love it! I think your light wood floors make the darker doors stand out even more.

What you're seeing in that area is travertine. We do have have a lighter than usual hickory wood floor in that living area,and I think the dark doors make both look better!

I LOVE it!!! I love, love it!

Another "love it'!

nice!
our neighbor has had black interior doors for a few years now--it looks great... she also had all of her spindles on her front staircase painted black also....

Yay for those that have taken the leap!
I've been threatening to paint my interior doors for too long now. I have Tricorn Black in high gloss latex just waiting in my closet but I really have to be in the mood to paint! LOL

Got more pics anyone? Thanks for sharing kswl!