After throwing these new swatches on the door, it seemed like the perfect color would be a combination of Baby Soft and Noble Blush. I had Home Depot color match the Baby Soft color and I got more samples made for Noble Blush as well (at 25%, 50%, and 75% lighter). Live and learn, right? Back to the old drawing board … What paint company doesn’t sell quarts or exterior paint? I guess that’s my bad for not looking at that sooner but never in a million years did I think a paint company wouldn’t offer those things. I went to order a quart online and guess what? They don’t sell quarts OR exterior paint. I never used Clare’s paints before but I’d been itchin’ to find an excuse to try one of their colors and figured this project would be perfect. After a few weeks of going back and forth on selecting “The One,” I finally landed on Clare’s Baby Soft.
#Farmhouse front door full#
I’d go out there almost every day to see how the colors looked in full sun, or overcast skies, and at different times of the day. Pink Cloud, Noble Blush, Wing It, Baby Soft Big Swatches Clockwise from Top Left: Pink Ground, I also found a few beautiful blushy-peachy colors from Portola Paints that I liked so I stuck those fan deck samples on the door as well (those are the little swatches on the right side of the door). I ordered a few peel-and-stick samples from Samplize (for the Benjamin Moore and Farrow & Balls colors) and Clare, grabbed a Behr sample at Home Depot and made my own little sample card for it, and got busy a-swatchin’ the door. That aside, I gotta admit that it was really tough selectcing a final paint color! At least, I don’t think I am …Īnyway, I just love the power of paint and what it can do to not only change the look and feel of a space, but how it also can affect your overall mood and wellbeing. Picking paint colors is one of my favorite things to do. So I merrily jumped into the Internet rabbit hole searching for blush pink front doors and found these gorgeous inspiration photos:Ĭlockwise from Top Left: Behr Noble Blush | Farrow & Ball Pink Groundīenjamin Moore Pink Cloud | Clare Baby Soft | Clare Wing It
Either one would look really pretty paired with the patinaed brass door hardware, but I thought a blushy-peachy pink would really make the hardware shine. I wasn’t sure exactly which way I wanted to go at that point: a pretty coastal aqua (my typical go-to) or something a bit different for me – a blushy, peachy pink. The black door was starting to feel a bit “Doom-n-Gloomy” for me, so I wanted to turn it into a more cheerful color that would happily greet us whenever we’d pull up to the house.
With the ongoing pandemic coming close to the 1-year mark at that time, I was feeling down and quite lonely (I missed seeing friends and family!) and needed a quick and easy pick-me-up project and thought a fresh front door color would be THE perfect remedy. In October 2020, I started posting about our front door’s mini-makeover project on my personal Instagram. And I’m not gonna lie – it feels damn good! I’ve done a bunch of little projects around our farmhouse since Covid hit and never posted about them so here I am now - PURGING. There is some amazing ideas in this post if you are wanting to modernize your farmhouse style, from smaller scale projects to larger ones.February is going to be a month of purging for me so get ready. Speaking of farmhouse, I am over at Better Homes & Gardens sharing 12 style trends every modern farmhouse needs. What do you think? What is your favorite front door color? I would love to hear you thoughts:). Ivory Wood & Glass Door | Better Homes & Gardens Periwinkle Storm Door | Tracey Rapisardi Style Pale Pink Dutch Door | Better Homes & Gardens Gray Wash Dutch Door | Melanie Turner Interiors Seafoam Green Barn Door | Luxe Interiors + DesignĪqua Blue Victorian Double Doors | Luxe Interiors + Design Living coastally I do gravitate towards blues but just to be sure I found 15 farmhouse front door favorites to inspire this creative process. My front porch I keep mostly neutral with pops of color and each year I alter it just a bit but I do tend to go bold with those pops so I am debating on the shade. I painted it when we first moved in Benjamin Moore, Charlotte Slate and have loved it but it is time for a change. I have been tossing around a new front door color now for a while.