Front Door Update tips?
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DonnaL
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Decided my front door needed some updating. Found a great color (Benjamin Moore Kennebunkport green). When you open the door it looks wonderful but........from outside not so good. My thinking is I need to paint the outside of the screendoor the same green and get no glare film for the glass. My question is should I just paint the screen door or paint the door and trim? I have white shutters on the windows across the front. (cannot load picture?)
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Or, you could remove the screen door. I'm not a fan of screen doors on the front of the house. I think it detracts from the look.
Donnal and Shore grandmom - I think she is trying to protect the door as well as having a screen door when the the weather is actually okay to have the door open! I live in Texas and we still have screen doors - also keeps the critters inside!
I have the same problem and it is so tempting to remove the screen door, but I love lettting in some fresh air in the evening. The frame of my screen door is the same color as the door, but painting it to match the trim might be good, too. Other than removing the screen door, or getting one you love, the screen door blocks the pretty front door if it’s there.
We painted our storm/screen door to match our house door. A beautiful blue.
Shore Grandma, do you have to keep your house door open in the summertime? We in the North do, because we do not have air conditioning. Storm doors are a necessity summer and winter. We would get eaten alive with mosquitos and have flies all over the house!
There! I was able to finally upload the picture. Would you paint the screen door only or the screendoor and the trim? Shutters on the house are white.
Oh, that is interesting, we are a five minute walk to the beach in Maine, we don't get bugs because we have a screen in the storm door! also in our back door. Also all windows, although tonight we should have storm windows on 'cause it is darn cold. Just put the down comforter on my bed! So that means in the winter you don't have a storm door either?
I would paint the entire screen door white to match your shutters
Well you got me to thinking Shore Grandmom, so I took a walk on my short street to check out the question of storm/screen doors. Of course to me you live in the south . . . LOL. I grew up in Syracuse, N.Y. and there or here I have always seen storm doors. and such is true of our street. One woman out watering her garden, told me that one time, when they wanted to put their house on the market, the realtor told them to remove the storm door because it was in such bad shape. Doesn't your sliding glass door have a screen? Right now I have on a fleece jacket, but the rain did stop long enough (yay!) for my husband to paint our porch floor. Oh, only 2 houses did not have any storm/screen doors. In fact this house originally had a vestibule that was all wood except for a small window in the door. That used to be put up every winter to block the cold. Oh my poor sister had a heart attack in N.J. last fall and had to go to the hospital in Atlantic city from Cape May!