Front door colours

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'm not sure why you think it's "rude"?

If you don't know the circumstances around the choice, how can you come to any conclusion?

Callistemon21

I like this!

Is it Tobermory? I like the look, in West Cumbria and parts of Galloway all the houses are painted in quite bright colours especially the ones near the sea, they look cheerful on a dull day.
We had dark green doors when we arrived and got rid of them anything green around here belongs to the Lowther Estate and we're certainly not part of them!!!! Mine at the moment are a mid-grey,
Copying is the biggest form of flattery.

I couldn't live with a green door or anything else green for that matter! I would be flattered if someone copied my choice of colour though.

Multi coloured doors, and paintwork, look great I think.

BlueBalou

P.S. I wanted bright yellow NotSpaghetti, DH was appalled!

It was truly beautiful and SO jolly. What could you possibly dislike about such a happy colour?

I don't mind that my neighbour has used "my" shade of blue. I suppose I might not have noticed if it hadn't been such a joy before!

I'm with you, Callistemon, the different coloured houses in places like Tobermory are what give such places their character.

If all the houses in a street are painted the same they look like council or housing association property. No individuality. I don't want to be the same as everyone else!

i couldn't even tell you what colour my neighbour's front doors are. But I am sure in the past, I have chosen the colour I have painted our front door, as a result of seeing another front door, not necessarily a neighbours, painted the same colour.

Why should I restrict my choice of colours only to those the neighbours haven't used. In fact, that applies to everything. internal decor, cars, clothes, anything you can name. Why should I restrict my choices for fear of being called a copy cat?

All our front doors are Oxford green.

P.S. I wanted bright yellow NotSpaghetti, DH was appalled!

Mine’s French Navy, I don’t think anyone else on out small estate has blue so at the moment it’s easy to direct people here!
It wouldn’t bother me tuppence if my neighbours had the same colour ?

My new next door neighbour has admired my front door colour. Hers was a fabulously bright yellow - ours was painted to match the window frames. I popped round yesterday to put some post through that had come to the wrong house and her door is now "my" colour blue!
I was surprised as she's painted all the window frames black only last month.

GagaJo

Matching paintwork gives a street a neater look, IMO.

That’s what I thought too

I think it would be quite nice to have matching front doors. Ours is just boring old natural ? wood. We never have to do anything to it which is good. Good old red gum.

I like this!

Is imitation is the sincerest form of flattery meaning that when someone is trying to imitate what one does, owns, or thinks, it's a compliment to that person? I recently installed a new light green front door and have received a lot of compliments about my choice of colour (very different from any others) but it won't bother me if anyone else chooses the same.

We live on a crescent of 20 houses. We all have to have the same colour front doors.

Or did the second people to have a green door discuss it with the first? Maybe they were in agreement?

I dont see the problem

Could it be a similar shade of green that looks identical?

Matching paintwork gives a street a neater look, IMO.

DCs both had new front doors fitted, as did we. None of us discussed the colours and it turned out that we’d all chosen the same colour Chartwell Green. ?They were all in different styles and not in the same location.

No not my door. Watched progress on my walks as the house was being built and was just surprised. Yes imitation is the highest form of flattery.Never thought of that!

It’s supposed to be the highest sign of flattery! They should have chosen their own colour though but perhaps they were not up to it.

Frankie.

MissAdventure

calli

Frankie or Shaky, MissAdventure?