Doors of Many Colours: Colourful Door Designs For Your Home

Your house is an array of different rooms and spaces, each with its own role in your life. Despite being separated, they are connected by doors. Doors are flexible conjunctions that connect two spaces while providing privacy when needed.

The point of dividing a house into different rooms, itself is to define space for a particular function, work and mood, and doors are the mediums which transcend you from one mood to another and in order for smooth transitioning you might need to pay attention to the medium too. Hence, the doors of your house might not seem of that significance but they need to be attended with utmost thoughtfulness and creativity, or maybe a thoughtful and creative splash of colours!

Here, we have many door colour ideas to choose from. But before exposing ourselves to options, let’s know how to choose the right one!

How To Choose The Right Colour

There's no single way to choose which colour would be best for the doors of your house. There are several factors you might have to consider before picking the right one-

• Decor and Architecture of the House- Your house might have vintage-style decor with intricate old-fashioned designs or a minimalistic modern house with simple shapes. Whatever it is, you have to define it and choose the colour and even the design for your door accordingly. It needs to be in harmony with the rest of the house.
• Lighting in the House- Do you have those vintage chandeliers and warm bulbs in your house or the square-shaped small cool LEDs lighting up the walls and floors? Lighting plays a very important role in accentuating door colours, as every colour has a different light-reflecting quality, so choose your door colours accordingly.
• The Weather- This factor majorly needs to be complied with when choosing door colours for exteriors like balconies, terraces or main doors. As these doors are exposed directly to sunlight, storms or heavy rains and all of these affect the longevity of colours.

Now that you have made a checklist with these points, let’s find the best option that ticks most of the boxes.

Classic Colours

If you have those old classic-style houses with wooden furniture and subtle classic colours on the walls, then these classic colours would suit the vibe of your house while adding a subtle pinch of timelessness to it. These colours could be used anywhere as they are versatile, and of course, that's why they are called classic colours.

Elegant White And Cream

White and cream are timeless colours, they provide a subtle yet elegant feel to the house while making the space feel spacious. They can be either used in a modern contrasting style with your house or else you can use it in the most famous way- complementing the hues. As old-styled houses mostly have subtle simple contrasting colour schemes, white or cream could go very well with them.

Serenity of Serene Green

Serene green is one of those colours that throws a vintage look on your face as soon as you see it. It’s one of the best choices for doors as it can provide a rustic look that is in trend while at the same time being timeless and having its own uniqueness and serenity. Though this colour is very flexible in its usage with any colour, you might still need to think about your house's decor and wall colours before choosing it as the door colour.

Serene green goes both with subtle dark and pastel light colours. Though their actual beauty comes out with contrasting colours.

Natural Wood

The texture of wood provides depth to a place while the grains make it feel warm and rustic. Stained and varnished wood is one of the most authentic and flexible ways to design the doors of your vintage house. Now you must be thinking that it would look unfinished and cheap but no! Good quality wood can never look cheap, wood is a luxurious element, and it does possess some authentic quality which no other MDF or mica can replicate. The size of the grains of wood, and the shapes of the grains actually tell how expensive it is. Oak or Teak wood is best for mid-budget renovation.

Vibrant Colours

Vibrant colours are best for the bold ones! People who want their house to look happening and give a vibrant jolly vibe can go for these colours. Being bold gives you variety! Check some ideas below:-

Eye Catching Red

Red is the most catchy colour; it can get anything in the spotlight. You enter a room with subtle cream and black colours complementing each other smoothly, and while rolling your eyes, you stop at a red door. You will have a question for sure'what is inside it? That's what red brings with itself. You can choose from various hues of red, whether muted red or soft pastel red. They just have the nature of standing out.

Sunny Yellow

Yellow is the jolliest and most optimistic colour of all. Again, like red, it stands out but more subtly and elegantly. It is a bold choice but still, it doesn't look weird at all, while actually going easily with most of the colours. Yellow goes best with black, there is no comparison. The sophistication of black and the playfulness of yellow creates a different type of vibe. Houses with dark leather furniture like black or brown in their living room can easily go with this colour to make your living room stand out with playful sophistication.

Handsome Navy Blue

Navy blue is a charming colour, and we have to say it can fit anywhere. Let it be a vintage house, a minimalist place or a bedroom that asks for some vibrant, handsome colours to decorate itself. Navy blue on the big panelled door looks vibrant but with a rustic look. It portrays urbanity with the great stature of the place. The way of using navy blue depends upon whether you want it to standout or just harmonise with the surroundings.

Minimalist Modern Colours

As the name suggests, modern houses with simple shapes and minimal designs need a great deal of colour to match their vibe and vision. These colours have different qualities that make them look very fulfilling in themselves. They do not need complex carvings and many elements; simplicity is the key to these colours.

Brutalist Metallic Black

Once placed in a minimalist room, metallic black gives off a brutalist vibe. Black is already a filling colour in itself, so with minimal elements and design, it works perfectly to fill the empty visual space while providing a smooth and uncluttered look to the place. This is the reason why metallic black is the go-to choice of designers for places with minimal architecture and design.

Stylish Grey

Used with other hues of grey, this colour provides a very clean and professional monochromatic colour scheme to a room. A monochromatic colour scheme basically consists of two hues from the same colour, creating an array of harmonising colours. These types of monochromatic schemes with grey door colour design do not ask for designs to decorate a space, as the simplicity and minimal nature of the colour is the design itself. You can design those gates with stripes or simple lines if you want a bit of depth into it.

Pastel Mint Green

If you do not want to go with modern edge colours like metallic black and grey and want to paint your door with vibrance without being poppy and keeping the minimalist vibe you can go for certain pastel shades of mint green. These colours do not pop but still stand out, creating a cosy, vibrant environment. Mint Green is a playful colour and by putting it in a more sophisticated minimalist setting you are mixing two genres creating something new, hence it needs thoughtfulness and attention to detail. One can use this door colour with a crisp white colour for the children's room or play area or maybe the kitchen.

Door Paint Designs

Door colours depend very much on the design, too. They need to complement each other in some way. Here are some trendy door designs for you to see how colours and designs come in harmony.

French Door Design With Dark Colours

French doors are the classic ones. Just like France, they have a very polished and civilised vibe. They are a culturally rich design picked directly from the neighbourhood in France. They have simple transparent or translucent glass panels locked in a wooden frame. These designs are sleek and less elemental visually but still have a cultural feel to them.

Wooden Dutch Doors

These door designs are totally contemporary, a mixture of functionality and aesthetics. They have an openable panel at the top, which could be fixed with translucent glass.

These doors could be painted in different ways, maybe with a single pastel colour or with two tones of colours separating the upper and lower part of the door.

Doors: The Euphonies of a House

Doors are transcending mediums of travelling in blocking different spaces that have different vibes and different kinds of furniture, different paints, and different roles to play in a house. Doors have the responsibility of ensuring a seamless transition. Hence, door colours are not just there for aesthetics they need to be painted so that you don’t feel like you are entering a different house altogether while going from one room to the other. Doors create harmony between different spaces to make them feel like a part of one.

Sometimes things become too overwhelming, yeah? Well, the experts at Interior Company are always there to help you build everything you've already created in your mind, so you can ask for help anytime, and they'll be there for you.

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