Knock, Knock, Knocking on Your Door!

Your home's front door is the portal to your domain. What color you give it says a lot about what visitors can expect, from a warm welcome to a cold rejection. While the entire exterior color scheme has meaning, the color of paint on the front door is key. Like a necktie, which is the focal point of an outfit, the front door is the focal point of the home. The color there sends a strong message. Blue: Rest Stop - Behind the blue door is an owner who thinks first of the home as a refuge - calm, serene, and relaxing, the perfect retreat from an often harsh and demanding world. Green: Peace Conservatory - Green connotes health, safety, tranquility, and harmony, all highly desirable attributes for the home environment. Black: Power Center - A black front door projects strength, sophistication, power, and authority, indicating to all who enter or even passersby that the home is a serious place inhabited by a person of substance. Red: Passion Palace - A color with punch, red is vibrant, full of life, energy and excitement. Here's an exciting place to live. Brown: Holistic Home or Dark Dungeon - Painted or stained brown says "natural" and "organic" and feels warm, stable and reliable. However, darker shades can be foreboding, signaling a desire for privacy or isolation. If you've chosen the color for your front door, perhaps that's the way you want it and you viewed. If you inherited the color, maybe it's not sending the right message. Repainting your portal is a quick and easy task that can change minds.