I think if you change the front door color and not the garage doors, the garage is going to look very odd with no relation to any other element on the front of your house. I'd wait to change the door color until you can change the garage doors.

Thank you both and I agree. I'm going to check out painting the garage doors, and if not doable will paint the post, maybe the door white.

This is our retirement home and I want to love coming home to colors that are me, not a sports team lol

I'd paint the garage doors gray (maybe white) and the front door my favorite color (in my case, I'd go for a dark blue or fire engine red).

That post would look good white. I wouldn't change the door color until you can change the garage color. The garage to white, and the front door to some vibrant color that speaks to you - but not white.

It's a pretty house but the garage doors look very, very odd. They would look a lot better in a color that blends with the stone trim and the dark gray - maybe a gray just a shade or two paler than the dark gray? So they would seem to disappear.

The post should be white, like the rest of the trim. Maybe paint the front door a subtle/subdued not-too-dark green?

You could paint the door a darker grey like the house, and then it would blend, but most folks want their front door to stand out. It would only serve to highlight the garage doors even more, which is what most folks don't want to do. Does hubby love the garage doors or something? Because I think they could be painted.

It is a very nice looking house!

Yes, see about painting garage doors first, before you tackle the door. You might like the reddish color after the doors aren't competing,

Strip the paint off the door and go with a natural wood stain that pulls from the brown in the stone that is on the house. Paint the post white and the two garage doors white. That will be a lot of white but I think it will look nice. It would look really good if you could do a wood stained look on the garage doors too but maybe you could do that later.

Thank you all for your suggestions! ok, I can now paint the garage doors. Hubby listened to reason LOL

The garage doors are odd. Up close they look like they were stained a wood but look so fake and the color matches the rust in the brick but not the front doors which are more red. Yuck. Also this house faces South

Now, my favorite color is aqua. So my choices so far:

Paint garage doors and post white, front door Watery or darker by SW.? Am I going to regret painting the doors and will it hold up for years? Exterior acrylic latex?

Paint garage doors matching which gray to the house, door and post white?

The door handle was bronze and it looks terrible, faded. Either paint black or switch out to Brushed Nickle?

@shee DH and I enjoyed your remarks about the sports colors of the house. Having had white garage doors, I advise against white. It will be all you see when looking at the house. You don't really want the garage doors to steal the show. The house has many other good features. I would say select a gray a little lighter than the siding and paint the trim above the doors to match or pull a taupe from the stone work which will bring the two sides of the house together. We used exterior acrylic latex paint on our southern exposure garage about two years ago. . Although we are pleased with latex paint, we have recently discovered Behr solid color all in one stain and sealant 10 year guarantee 100% acrylic and my husband recommends this highly. Even though it says it is a stain, it is opaque like paint. I also like aqua for front door.

Thank you all for you thoughts and comments! I'm starting out with a lighter gray on the front door and post, with a beautiful wreath and see how that looks. If it doesn't look right, we'll paint the garage doors the same gray.

I think the garage doors are the problem. They're the first thing you see on the house -- very prominent, yet they're not a 'specially nice feature. I suggest painting them grey to match the rest of the house. I know you say you can't change them, but I assume you mean you can't replace them ... but paint isn't a big deal.

Then keep the front door red. I read somewhere that your front door should be a color that appears nowhere else on the house, and that makes sense. It makes the door a focal point. OR you could paint the door a bright blue or green, but it needs to be something BRIGHT so it will be more bright. It has to overcome the double obstacles of being hidden on the porch and overshadowed by the garage doors.

You need to paint the garage doors the same color as the house so they sit back. You don't want them being the first thing you see. You want your front entry to be the star. You said you love aqua so paint your front door aqua! Here I "painted" the garage doors almost the same gray as the house (hopefully you can imagine how it would look better if they were painted exactly the same color?), changed the post to white and painted your front door aqua.

Now your front entry is the star and the first thing you see as you drive up. If you don't like the aqua any fun color would work with the gray.

I like what Cpartist did, but I would keep the trim around the garage doors gray. They are not a great architectural feature and it will cut down on all the white "lines."

Love cpartists photoshop.

Pick your favorite color for the door, aqua, lime green, red, orange, purple, dark blue...

Wow cpartists that you! Now I need to learn to do that! Mine comes out scribbled out of the lines on paint.

Thank you all again, and yes I see what you mean. The garage doors need to take a back seat and let me put my aqua or perhaps a darker shade of it on the front door like I wanted to all along, and around here was talked out of. My house we're still in has an aqua door and I love it. It's the only one I've seen in this city of 30,000 so far of houses that all blend tastefully. May as well shock my new neighborhood too : )

I talked to my paint contractor today and he will be giving me quotes tomorrow. I want my bedroom and bathroom painted too so the bathroom may have to wait to do the garage doors. Or perhaps hubby and I could do it.

I will post pictures when it's finished in a few weeks.

Much appreciated all of you!!

Hmm...cpartist beat me to it. I'm thinking yes to painting the post white and the garage doors to match the siding, but leave the front door as is.

I tried a few colors for the front door, but the rendition isn't good...I like the turquoise better than these.

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