Want an instant upgrade to your curb appeal? Start with the front door. A fresh coat of paint or a bold new color is one of the easiest ways to make your entryway pop. From classic to quirky, these front door color ideas will help your home stand out in style.
Read on below for some bonus advice on choosing the best front door color to complement your home!
Blue Front Doors
Almost any shade of blue from bright blue to dark navy looks great on a front door. Benjamin Moore’s Van Courtland Blue (HC-145) adds permanent summertime vibes to this home.
Navy blue is one of the most popular front door colors of this decade. It’s classic and understated, but it definitely has personality. Navy blue is a versatile choice that complements both beige and gray siding colors.
Teal front doors aren’t just for beach houses. Soft, grayed-out teals like Benjamin Moore’s Aegean Teal (2136-40) are elegant and versatile shades that give off instant cottage vibes.
Always popular in sunny climates, turquoise front doors have started brightening up homes all over the country. This home pairs a Cool Blue (2058-40) front door with Distant Gray (OC-68) on the siding and Harbor Haze (2136-60) on the shutters and ceiling.
Red Front Doors
Red is a timeless, traditional front door color—as a primary color, it has the ability to coordinate with both warm and cool palettes. We think this classic red creates a stylish makeover with this home’s blue-gray siding (Nimbus Gray 2131-50) and porch (Normandy 2129-40).
You can't get more classic than navy and red! Yet this home's monochromatic approach to all-over dark color feels fresh and modern with the bright accent of the red front door.
The clean lines and crisp angles of modern architecture look natural with a black and white color scheme. This home contrasts the monochromatic colors with bright red on the front door.
Yellow Front Doors
Bold and bright colors like gold are often used on modern architecture and beach or resort homes. However, they have become popular as an accent color for traditional architecture as well. So if your home is traditional, go for that pop of color on the entry door!
Stuart Gold (HC-10) adds a sunny, warm welcome to the creamy whites and warm grays on this front porch.
Green Front Doors
Benjamin Moore Louisburg Green (HC-113) on the siding pairs with Castle Peak Gray (1561) on the front door and trim for an understated, elegant finish in this monochromatic palette.
Too many color options to choose from? Here are some tips to get you started.
Paint color undertones are those nuances of color that are either warm, cool or neutral. Undertones appear in almost every shade of paint, although we may not immediately notice them. Even neutral whites and off-whites have undertones that range from warm, creamy yellow to cool gray. Paint shades that have similar undertones usually work well together. For example, a warm-toned color palette might contain earthy hues like brown, gold, and cream; a cool-toned color palette may have pale gray, cool white, and navy.
Coordinating Your Front Door Color With Your Home's Exterior Palette
On most homes, the front door is the main focal point. The best front door colors stand out, yet form part of an exterior color scheme with coordinating siding and trim colors.
If you’re painting the entire home, you can choose the front door color along with some complementary colors for the rest of the home. Most paint manufacturers provide pre-selected exterior color palettes to choose from.
However, if you’re only planning to paint the front door (and perhaps some accents like shutters) you’ll want to coordinate your paint color choice with the existing colors of your home’s siding and trim. You can begin by trying to find out what colors your home is currently painted; or if that’s not possible, by comparing paint sample cards to your home’s exterior. Knowing what colors you’re working with makes it much easier to choose a front door color that works.
Once you’ve determined whether your home is painted warm or cool colors, you can narrow down your front door options to colors with similar undertones.
Certain types of architecture are better suited to certain color collections, so the style of your home is also a good place to start. Paint brands like Benjamin Moore simplify the process of choosing paint colors by creating color collections that work together. For example, Benjamin Moore’s Historical Collection consists of traditional colors often used on historic homes—shades with hints of gray or brown tint mixed in to give them an aged appearance. This collection is a popular choice for traditional Cape Cod, Colonial, Georgian and cottage-style homes.
If your home is painted in historical house colors or neutrals, this collection is a great place to look for a front door color.
The Color Preview Collection is another option—a balanced collection that provides gradations of color mathematically arranged by hue and value, with vibrant shades and subtle hues. This full spectrum of color trends includes crisp, pure hues that aren’t muted by gray or brown. (Designers call these “clean colors” and they may be either bright and bold or dark and rich.)
If your home is crisp white, or a color with cool or neutral undertones, check out the clean hues of Color Preview.
White Front Door
White isn’t the best front door color for a classic white-painted home, but against a dark siding color like Benjamin Moore’s Old Navy, it’s a great choice.
Orange Front Door
A favorite with lovers of mid-century modern architecture, orange is the perfect complement to grays and browns. Benjamin Moore’s Terra Cotta Tile is a sophisticated shade of orange.
Pink Front Door
Pink is another unexpected front door color; here it adds a touch of romance to this home’s neutral Pale Oak siding and White Dove trim.
Purple Front Door
A purple front door may sound unusual, but it’s the perfect eclectic accent to this Spanish Revival home.
Black Front Doors
A glossy black front door always looks understated and sophisticated, letting this home’s traditional architecture stand out.
Black can also provide quiet contrast to a colorful facade.
