What are we painting blue now? Our front door! Woot woot! I have been dying to paint this door. It is so gross, boring and Black! Here it is…
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It’s not horrible, but I really want to add some color. Our house is tan and our front door is black, how blah.
When I told Justin I wanted to paint the front door, he said we should do tan or black. He is so plain! I told him I wanted to do something bold and he was not thrilled with my idea. I thought about it and I figured the only compromise I think we could both live with would be blue. So blue it was. I then started my search for the right blue. I found a few photos on pinterest that I was really digging…
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And how much do you love this guy….
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And lastly…
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I tried to find inspiration photos that had a similar tan colored home with white trim, just so I could really see how the blue would look with a tan color. Once I had some ideas I headed to Lowes to pick up some samples.
Once I got home I pried this guy off the door…
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It’s some sort of hanger, we thought it was glued onto the door… turns out its a magnet.
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and it’s disgusting. It took some serious prying, there was a lot of dirt holding that magnet on. Yuck.
While at Lowes I also picked up a sanding block…
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I then sanded the door down really well…
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Hey Zack! After the door was sanded down, I took some soapy water and a rag and cleaned the trim and the front door. I then gave the trim a fresh coat of paint in a white semi gloss.
We also changed out the old weather stripping on the door. The original weather stripping was brown…
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We traded that out for white…
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I also picked this up at Lowe’s for $5 a strip, we only needed 3. I think it looks much better with white…
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Justin also screwed some new weather stripping to the bottom of the door…
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There will be no air getting around this puppy!
From there I was ready to paint on my sample colors…
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Let’s get closer…
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These are the four samples I picked up from Lowes, they are all Valspar brand. We stepped back to take in the colors from the street…
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Which one do you like? Well it doesn’t matter because… we went with the top left, which is Cornflower Blue! Hope that’s what you picked too. I ran back to Lowe’s and picked up a quart of the Cornflower Blue in a satin finish, I didn’t want it to be too shiny since the door has some small dents. The quart was about $15.
I started painting over each of the other three colors, then did the edges of the entire door…
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Once a had a couple coats on the square panels and the edges, I rolled the rest of the area with a small roller…
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Yay! Blue door! I had to leave the door propped open for a little while to let it dry. I didn’t want the edges to smear on the door frame.
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Hey there blue door!
Since the door was all painted I felt it was necessary to get this fancy door some accessories. I ran over to Target and picked up this pretty wreath and a hanger…
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I then hung her up and put our normal welcome mat back and we were in business…
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Let’s take a quick look before…
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and now…
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Makes me wanna dance.