Our Home: New Front Door

Big thanks to everyone on the comments about out hardwood floors! I can't wait to share more pictures so you can get a better idea of how amazing they look in person. Our new front door to our house was installed on Tuesday and I'm head over heals in love with it, its what dreams are made up of, at least my dreams lol. Even though I'm super excited and happy with our new door, my heart will always miss our old front door we put so much love into it. With that said, before I got into all the details of our new front door I want to share more details about our old front door. 

When we bought our home four years ago we inherited a solid wood front door that had see better days, the bottom half of the door was badly Sun damaged and the varnish was all but wore off on top that there were scribbles on the front door. After living with the door unpainted for quite awhile, decided to paint the door Posh Red by Valspar (if your looking for a pretty pop of red, check this color out!) you can read more about our front door transformation

here

. 

Here's our old front door before we painted it.

After we painted our door red to go with our grey house, it gave the perfect pop of color to the front of the house and upped the 

 cuteness factor

 curb appeal. As you know curb appeal is a good thing. 

Now for our new front door, way back in February Hasani and I went

door shopping

for exterior and interior doors. We found the exact doors we were looking for at Homewood Lumbar in Loomis, CA. They had a great selection of doors and were super excited to find the exact style we wanted. For our front door, we both loved the natural light our old door provided and wanted to find a door that would give us lots of natural light and tie in with our interior doors so they coordinated. Here's the perfect solid wood door for our home, it lets the perfect amount of light in and fits perfectly with our 1956 rancher style. We are going with rancher meets a mixture of craftsman style, so I guess you could call it modern rancher craftsman style?

I love how the door looks with our new shingles, so glad we used a combination of lap & shingle siding our our house to break up all the straight lines. The combination look so pretty together! 

I'm pretty much in love with this door, from the outside & inside! Here's a sneak peak at our our new interior door! Remember we doubled the doorway between our living room / kitchen area to create a more open feel, as you can see the doorway is starting to get trimmed out. The french door you see in the background leads to our 

laundry room addition

, this is exactly what I pictured a few months ago when I shared my drawing our our kitchen

, read more

here

. 

View from inside our living room looking out to our entry (which is all in one room)

The pretty view from our hallway to our front door makes so happy! I just love it! Sorry the below pictures are so grainy, we've been using our iPhone to take pics, as you can imagine our home is VERY dusty so we keep the good camera at the apartment. 

Almost all of our new interior & exterior doors have been installed and as soon as they are I'll be sharing a long door post about all those pretty doors! And yes my friends, doors are so pretty. Do you remember this picture I shared a few months about when I was talking about my ideas for our living room? Crazy how our new door is very similar to the one below! I can't wait to come home to my house and feel like it gave me a hug when I walked in the door. 

via

Pinterest

Next Hasani and I need to choose our front door color. Looks like, we'll be buying more tester paint samples. In the past two weeks I bought 6 paint samples, looks like I'm building up my paint stash once again. Can't complain about that. 

Also out house finally got painted on Wednesday, today the painter will be painting out the trim. Click

here

for a reminder about the color we decided to go with. 

Don't you just love our new front door? Any front door color suggestions, since our how will be a med-dark-ish grey? Feel free to include links to ideas! 

Three Shades of Grey

It wasn't that long ago that we painted our house a shade of medium shade of grey, painting over our all peach house. We chose a medium-light grey and painted our house ourselves a few months before I began blogging way back in 2009, I never wrote down the color of the paint since we had leftover paint in the garage. You can read more about our painting process

here

. Now that the exterior siding of our house is done, its time to choose paint colors. Hasani and I both decided we love our house grey but what colors? 

Over the past few months I've collected a ton of grey paint swatches for our interior but none for our exterior  go figure. Since it was crunch time Hasani and I headed to Home Depot to check out paint colors and within a few minutes narrowed it down to three shades of grey. We went from light grey to dark grey.....to give an us idea what each color would look like on our exterior. Here's a reminder of our house currently

looks

. 

We painted decided to paint two spots on our homes exterior, because they both get different lighting depending on how the sun is hitting our house. Along with three paint samples I bought three cheapo sponge paint bushes great for one time use and cheap enough that its no biggie to toss them after use. I painted each color on our homes siding then held up the paint sample next to painted section snapped a picture so we could remember what paint color we used. 

Brand: Behr  Color: Pier 

Brand: Berh Color: Classic Silver

Brand Behr Color: Elephant Skin

The three shades from top to bottom: Pier, Classic Silver & Elephant Skin

We took a few minutes for the paint to dry to decide on what color we didn't like, then choose the color we did. Within minutes we both agreed Classic Silver had way to many blue undertones for our taste and just look flat and too light. 

We went back and forth over between Elephant Skin and Pier. Hasani preferred Elephant Skin, I liked

 it, but it reminded me of a 'play it safe color' and not as grey as I would have liked. 

I really liked how Pier was a deeper, richer color than Elephant Skin. We stepped back and looked at the colors with our new roof in view  then both agreed that Pier was the winner!

We are painting the whole house body Pier color matched at Sherwin Williams, the brand our painter prefers and painting our door/window trim and edge boards a crisp clean creamy white to match our new seamless gutters. Our house is being painted today! Weather permitting, we've had funky weather the past week of so and our home was supposed to get painted paint last week. I can't wait to see how our home looks once its all painted! 

What color did you like best? What is your favorite house color? In addition to grey, I've always liked white colonial style houses with bright red doors!