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Garage door color / Front door and columns advice

6 years ago

I'm looking for advice. Builder has painted garage door to match soffit and fascia. Is this too much light color? Or should I have asked for garage door to match the hardie board color (Timberbark)? I'm needing a visual to see what would look better.

Also, I am torn on what color for the front door and columns. I was thinking dark walnut type stain for front door and columns. Any advice is sincerely appreciated. Thanks!

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Comments (14)

  • 6 years ago

    Not a pro but Timberbark for the garage doors might help pull some focus from them since they're right in front. I'd go with the lighter color for the columns. There's a lot going on with the front of the house. Maybe something light/bright for the door to give it more focus. See what the pros here think.

  • 6 years ago

    I would try Timberbark (siding color) for the garage doors and do the front door and columns in the trim color. Not sure you need to add another color. A dark walnut stain is going to make your entry dark and I think it will just blend in with the siding color.


    I wish your stone had more of the warm color. In the photo it just reads very gray, but might be different in person.

  • PRO
    6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Removed some Tudor Timber details over the large garage door since they are not over the small garage door.


    Please note that the stone on the second floor is being supported by the walls faced with siding on the first floor. This cannot happen in real life unless the stone is fake.

    This is why there should not have been any stone applied to the second-floor walls. I know........too late, but maybe someone else will benefit from this info.


  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    A good looking house!

    I am assuming Timberbark is the color on the siding, not the shakes. The siding color for the garage doors would work. But the current color is not bad since it is repeated on the trim. After doing a crude mock-up, I think I like it better the way it is.



  • 6 years ago

    I agree with chispa for your color choices

  • 6 years ago

    I agree with chispa regarding a dark walnut stain, or anything dark for that matter. Just seems the front door needs more focus.

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    A gable nested in a Jerkenhead nested in a gable. And flying stone on the second level. Wow!


    If it was my house, I'd paint the garage doors to match the siding. I'd also paint all those vertical trim pieces to match the siding.


    The porch columns would get painted to match the other trim and the front door would get an accent color...perhaps Mark's Hunter Orange.



  • 6 years ago

    BeverlyFLADeziner, Thank you for your input. The stone is definitely not fake - it’s natural stone and the developer of the area has strict architectural guidelines. We needed to have at least 300 sq. ft. of stone on the front of the house -it would have been tricky to accommodate that much stone on the ground level (we tried!).

  • 6 years ago

    Chispa, thank you for your advice. The stone does have more grey to it; however, it’s really beautiful stone when seen in person.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    An entry door needs much more than an actually visible color. It needs the approach to it to have clues that it exists, and that people are welcome to come to that door. There doesn’t seem to be much of an encouraging wide and friendly pedestrian path to the porch, where presumably, people will travel.

    Right now? This looks like the cars are telling people that they are not welcome. The garage is the most obviously important part of the facade. It’s the most obvious and prominent element. And the front door isn’t visible, and has no designed path of destination to it.


    The hardscape and landscape design needs to overcome this. Paint is secondary. But yes, paint all of the batten trim and the garage doors the house body color. That body color may need a big workout on a lot of elements, actually. Every necklace in the jewelry box is being used, and it’s too much.


    The entry door needs a light bright color. School bus yellow. Bubble gum pink. Orchid purple. Acid citron green. Something that shouts rather than hides behind its mother’s apron.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Paint the trim around the garage doors house body color too. And that second floor levitating stone. I find the trim color entirely too contrasting with the body color as well. It draws attention to things that shouldn’t be in the spot light.

  • 6 years ago

    cpartist's rendition is close to what I had in mind.

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    What cpartist said. I think a brilliant yellow front door would be smashing. If you want a bit more subdued yellow, consider Farrow & Ball's "India Yellow".