Front door colours

I've just painted my front door sage green. I love it! I don't particularly like the door but it's really good quality and I can't afford to change it so painting it was the next best option. The surrounds are brown so it looks like a chocolate lime.

Light vreyey green is a very popular color at the moment. I'd have had that color had it not been for visiting a new estate shortly before I chose the color and so many of them were that color or black. I thought I didn't want something that would date it so much, this is a composite door not one you would paint
Also next door have that color and I wanted it to be different
I went for dark blue, doesn't show the dirt and not quite as stark as black. Hope it will not date as much as willow green will. Or will it be the next in vogue colour

BrandyGran

A new house near me has finished the house with a green front door. A few days later the older house next door paints theirs the exact same colour
AIBU to think this is a bit rude?

Yes, IMO, you are.

It is not rude to paint your front door the same colour as someone else. It is a compliment!

did anyone, reading the OP text, hear “Green Door” as in Frankie Vaughan (only we oldies will remember his high kicks, hat and cane) or more recemtly, apparently, Shakin’ Stevens ?

BrandyGran Don’t worry about this. It is possible that both house owners are happy with their green doors.

I've been sat here for a few seconds trying to think what colour my front door is.

Why does it matter that someone used the same colour paint on their front door? I just don’t see how it can be considered rude or insensitive. Especially when it’s not even your house brandygran

Avoid grey, from Mist to Pigeon, as it subliminally suggests that you are in negative equity. An upmarket Estate Agent in East Dulwich told us this, so it must be true.

Estate villages are uniform and tenants or owners have no say in the colour choice.

Green is restful, alludes to contentment and a calm interior.

Yellow doors say, optimistic sunny people live here.
Red doors say, you are now entering a hard hat area.
Blue doors say a man chose this colour
Black front doors are gloomy, uncompromising,
suggesting that you will not stay long, especially if
adorned with a number 10.
White doors are high maintenance and judder.
Brown doors are cloaked, concealing a warm burrow.
Purple doors are horrid.
Lemon coloured doors suck.
as do orange.
My favourite is Pelt, dark, shot, mystical,
although my own is faux oak, and very smart it is too

Good point Grannypiper! Do you know I hardly notice it now!

Nobody owns the paint colour, would you think it rude if both occupants used white ?

Lucky, it’s all plastic around here, yellowing white plastic.

I think it depends on the actual specific neighbourly dynamics.

On the one hand, it's a thumbs up to a great colour choice, in another case, yes, its a bit deliberately provoking.

Is it the adjoining house ?
Some of my neighbours have agreed on the same new windows and doors .

Recently, quite a few of us have had built new sheds or offices in the garden .
We've all chosen Cuprinol willow or seagrass and it's been very popular for fencing and pergolas.
I don't recall , who began the craze .

Green has always been my favourite colour for interiors and clothes (!) as well .
I'm wearing my green nightie and I'm going out to lunch today and there's some green knitting wool in a charity shop , which appeals to me !

Thoroughly agree with the last two posts. I still think it’s possible the second house mentioned it to the first, who were not at all bothered by their using the same colour paint. It seems like a non issue to me.

I agree with M0nica. I have thought about this, and however hard I try to see an issue, I just can't. I couldn't even tell you what colour my neighbours' front doors are, never mind be pleased or annoyed about whether they are the same colour as mine.

I am sorry BrandyGran, I do not even see it as insensitive. Each house owner should be free to paint their front door the colour of their choice, and it really doesn't matter whether someone else has chosen the same colour or something similar..

My front door is bright yellow. So cheerful.

Probably RUDE was the wrong word. Maybe INSENSITIVE unless they asked the new house people and they said go ahead. I just felt for the new build people as they probably have the colour some thought. After all they have spent thousands and to copy them seems INSENSITIVE to me.

When our house was built it was in the deeds that all doors and window frames had to be and stay brown .It means a uniform look but it doesn't bother me ,in fact I think its quite smart

Neater, perhaps, but dull.

M0nica

Perhaps OP meant 'bad manners' rather than 'rude'. The two words can be interchangeable. If someone pushes in front of you in a queue they can be described as rude, or showing bad manners.

Or just 'bad etiquette'?

I think it depends on the nature of the original door owner. He / she could either be pleased or offended. So is it unreasonable to assume it's "rude"? The answer has to be 'yes'.

Perhaps OP meant 'bad manners' rather than 'rude'. The two words can be interchangeable. If someone pushes in front of you in a queue they can be described as rude, or showing bad manners.

I notice that it's the OP who thinks the imitation was 'a bit rude'. Wonder if the owner of the new house thinks. Who knows? The owner of the older house might have mentioned that they were going to paint their door and would like to know the name of the colour. When I had a new (green) door, I'd have been delighted if my neighbour had painted hers the same colour. However, she chose red.

I don’t see it as ‘rude’ - maybe they always liked that colour anyway.
We installed a new dark blue front door in our sole rental - one of just 2 Edwardian maisonettes with adjacent front doors. Within a short time the owners of the other had installed a very similar front door.

We didn’t see it as rude - they both looked very nice, and are certainly a lot sturdier than the original front doors, which a tradesman working nearby helpfully told me could very easily be kicked in by any halfway determined burglar. ?

Mollygo

Possibly this harks back to the days when all council house doors were the same colour. The first thing people did when they bought their council house was change the front door so it didn’t look like their neighbours’ doors.

I can remember people doing that, and their front gates. or turning their garden into hard standing for the car they were very proud of.