How to brighten our dark brick exterior entry
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Anon
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We have a new home with a dark brown brick exterior. There's a long walkway to the front door...like a dark cavern. I need to brighten that as much as possible...We can paint the door white, decorate that, put white ironwork up...but what else??
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If it's in the budget, paint the brick white, and put up black wrought iron, black planters for flowers and black shutters. Paint the door something fun like red or cobalt blue.
I would add a row of bright solar garden stakes along the walkway up, and add a motion detector porch light.
Light it up! Solar lights, light strips, reflective pieces (yard art), bright colours all should help
Hello Anon, Try to light it up as much as possible. Use landscape lights up the walkway. I'm not sure solar lights would be bright enough. You may want to consider electrical lights. Use a high watt light bulb in your porch light. You could add more light in plants, greenery or decorative porch mini trees. I like your idea of adding bright colored iron work too.
Paint the ceiling a bright white. If the floor is concrete you can paint or stain that a light color, maybe tan, to reflect more light. Adding an interesting exterior rug would draw the eye away from the dark brick. Add interesting plants, objects, chairs, etc.
THANK YOU EVERYONE, FOR THE SUPER TIPS!! (Keep them coming, everyone else...ha ha). By the way, there is only one window in the front,
and it is just a medium/small one...I will want to try some type of shutter...
maybe vintage? Ideas welcome! AND: The 3 car garage doors are also very dark (what was this builder thinking??) So there is another place where I can try to improve it...Ideas on that too, always welcome!!
One other thing I thought of was that maybe we could hang some white
lattice on the wall, and work with that...