This Door Makes a Statement
Yes, the plan was to make the door stand out, to proudly declare, “Here is the door!”
Instead, I get, “Warning! Tasteless crazy person lives here!”
The blue is temporary, tape masking off some trim which is colored a light apricot. I’m thinking I should have made the trim dark, and the door light. Ah well, a bad haircut grows back out, and a bad paint job can be done over.
And, you know, I live behind the door; I only have to look at it as I drive up to the house. Pfft. The neighbors can deal.
“Uncle Dave’s delicate condition.”
Finished door. Needs some touch up here and there, but nothing you can see in this pic. Glare from the in-camera flash; I’ll put up a cleaner pic later.
I intended the trim color to be a few shades darker, more like the occasional light orange bricks, such as what you can to the right of the top of the door. It’s actually pretty close, but against the dark orange, it comes off much paler.
Close up, it’s clear I’m a lousy painter. A few runs here and there, some rough edges around the masking, and a few spots where I placed the mask over the trim a bit too wide, which revealed the primer. Also, I really should have been using the roller from the very start. (I foolishly used a brush, because of the small area, but the roller leaves a vastly better texture. The brush marks, particularly from the heavy primer, are horrendous.)
Frame next, then the pillars holding the roof up.