Friday 24 July 2015

Friday I'm in love... with pretty front doors


When I close my eyes and imagine my dream house, the outside looks something like this. It's a simple equation - painted door + flowers + lots of colour = a front door to make you smile. At the moment my front door doesn't exactly make me smile. We inherited one of those plastic, double-glazed front doors that I'm sure is ever-so insulative (if that's a word) but actually not so easy on the eye. I'd love a proper wooden door, with little windows, in a lovely bright colour, plus window boxes on the bay window next to it. And some pots dotted around. Ooh, and a hanging basket too. Flowers everywhere. This is something that's definitely on the long list home-improvement-wise, because it's more 'fun' than 'practical' and there are loads of other, far-more-useful-but less-aesthetically-exciting things that need doing first (E.g. we have a leak in the roof that needs sorting first - BALLS)

Because if you think about it, while a few people actually see the inside of your house, absolutely loads see the outside while they're walking past. So I'd like to have a front door that might raise a few smiles. One day anyway.

All these images, plus lots more pretty front doors, can be found here.




5 comments:

  1. Oh these are so gorgeous.

    Hubby and I often try to spot pretty front doors when we're out and about. We'd love a door like those on our forever house. :)

    Jenna at Tinyfootsteps xx

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    1. Jenna we do the same! Always makes me smile to see a pretty door. One day :) xx

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  2. How fun! What great looks and thanks for sharing. I am considering repainting my front door. I feel like a quick coat of paint can just totally change to look of a home and update it by decades. The trouble I am running into is choosing the color and sticking with the choice. I am back and forth with it.

    Giovanni @ Coastal Contract Hardware

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  3. I've never understood why my wife is always spending so much time on our front porch with decorating for the holidays—whatever she can do to make it look nice. When I read "more people will see the outside than will ever see the inside," it suddenly clicked. I now get why this space is so important to her.

    Earl Mark @ Eastway Lock

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