SW Quietude or Halcyon maybe? I looked at some Halcyon pics which resemble the garage color. If I were you I would take your photo and try to match it to several colors and get samples to take home. Even if you knew the paint color, chances are it would look different on your door depending on your lighting and shadows etc.

To me they look like Glidden colors. Glidden has some great shades...I get them mixed in Behr's best.

Look at Benjamin Moore Ocean Air

Or, BM Gossamer Blue.

Hi Pipdog --

Seconding the rec to look at SW Halcyon (Quietude, Underseas, Jasperstone) as a starting point.

Outdoors + shaded = test test but that type of color will be gorgeous against the red cedar!

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Thanks, everybody. I went and picked up samples of some of the recommendations here. I liked Ocean Air but it seemed a little light. With just one coat, here's how they look:

top left: BM Gossamer Blue

top right: BM Smoke (too gray blue)

bottom left: BM Wedgewood Blue

bottom right: BM Yarmouth Blue (seems too light)

I'm not sure that I love any of those so I mocked up a deeper peacock blue tone to see how it would look. This is SW "Lagoon". For context, our floors are off white. Just off the foyer there is a big wall of walnut cabinets with large brass pulls. Which do you all prefer -- the sea foam tones or the darker tone?

Also considering SW's Blue Peacock (apologies for the terrible mockup):

I like it!

Sherwin Williams Watery is close to the color you are looking for. You'll have to google because it would not let me copy picture here.

I like both of those you mocked up!

Love the second to last.

Lagoon!

None of the test colors look anything like the example of those garage doors you posted. The test colors look like they are blue grays, at least on my computer monitor anyway.

I like the Lagoon out of the all the samples shown, but I have a gorgeous door that would be beautiful as your door, antique with carved glass. :) not trying to sell I'm just sayin' :)

Ben Moore Castle Walls.

Hi again Pipdog --

The deeper blue-greens will also work well with your red cedar fence and walnut "innards", but you'll definitely have a higher-contrast look against the siding (and interior walls).

• Since whatever color you pick will look very different seen from the outside (shaded area) vs inside (tons of natural light!), do you want to love it *most* from the front or when it's seen against the inside?

• If "from the outside" -- it sounds like you all tested at least a few deeper muted shades and didn't like how they looked? I worry those gorgeous mock-ups above wouldn't translate to how the color looks on your door as seen from the front, but it's all about how the light hits.

Generally in a darker space if you want to stay muted while still getting pop, you're going to have amp things up with deep warm yellow-orange shades. Then if those don't appeal ...warm brights if you're open to them.

In this photo, you can really see which shades jump out from the dark background. It may help you get an idea of how for the blue-greens it might work better to skew more toward a turquoise than peacock.

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Another example -- brighter vs deeper greens in context of each other. You see which shades jump out and which recede. If you want your door to come forward, I'd test colors that are lighter and brighter vs those awesome moody deep natural or oceanic ones. [And I still think your first instinct of a medium seafoam could work well.]

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Don't know how that jives with your preferences and goals for the house. Let's get woowoo for a minute: what kind of energy do you want that front door to convey? Relaxing retreat or tropical vibrancy behind this door?

[You could always go the easy route and pull from your sky color for a fairly intense sapphire!]

thanks! house vixen, I love some of those greens you posted in your last photo. Gorgeous colors. We've decided to wait until the siding and fence are in until we choose a door color -- it's just hard to visualize it with none of the other elements in place and the gray scratch coat of stucco casting a dark hue on it. I'll update as we get closer along and may come back with some proposed colors.

Lesley, beautiful front door - love that Vintage Vessel color!

Hi Pipdog! We're in the UK, but recently painted our front door in Farrow & Ball Green Smoke. Possibly worth considering......

Very pretty raphaellathespanishwaterdog. what a lovely entrance!

House vixen, after thinking about it, I like the idea of going bold with orange. While I thought the soft skylark blue would work, its feeling kind of washed out and blah right now. I really like this strong statement for the door, and orange is one of my favorite colors.

Hi Pipdog --

Well I always think a person should feel *great* when they first see their home -- whether that can happen from the outside or right as they step through the front door -- so I'm on-board with painting in a favorite shade!

I also love a bold citrus with dark woods so feel you there.

My only .02 would be re the cedar. I know it can be a bit tough to judge from a brand new fence in case you want it to weather a bit, and I also know yellow paint shades can tie nicely to red cedar with a natural sealer.

However, it seems like some red cedar really skews redder and some browner so sometimes that makes a difference to my eye. Once you're ready to test you may want to keep an open mind about a slightly more muted orange (think yams vs tangerines) or even a mango.

Houzz tells me this is untreated Western red cedar and the combo looks great to me.

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You're definitely keeping us in suspense with this project -- can't wait to see the results!