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what does your front door say | November 7, 2007

David and I haven’t done any work on the exterior of our house yet. Our plan is to get a bluish gray hardie plank on the front exterior, the back already has a white hardie plank. Then the stucco will be painted white. The bluish gray and white combination is one that I really like, and which is very similar to what we have in the interior.

We have been trying to decide what color to paint the front door. I was leaning towards red at first, but since our neighbors have painted their house GREEN! it would look like perpetual Christmas. So red was thrown out. We could go with white, a beautiful and safe choice, but I want something that stands out. So now I want a very high gloss black door. It’s more traditional European but I want a really cool door knocker to go with it, one like this:

Door knocker hand

Wouldn’t that be sweet?

UPDATE: Oh hai, Justin, you are the best! Thank you, for buying me this door knocker as soon as you saw how much I liked it today.

And also: I was showing my dad the door knocker and saying how cool it was, and he told me that when he was a little boy they used to have this same type of knocker on their front door in Iran. Holy coincidence Batman!



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2 Responses to “what does your front door say”

  1. Lisa Says:

    Every other door in the condo building. Haha. That knocker rocks. Especially on a black door.

    November 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm


  2. amy Says:

    my front door is made of wood that needs sanding a whole lot more (in my opinion!) and is stained a mid-brown colour… most unexciting. and like lisa’s, it’s the same as everyone elses front door.

    my ideal front door would be something heavy. and glossy like yours. i love big doors!

    that knocker made me laugh by the way… i can’t help but get images of picking up a dead hand to knock… eep! kinda quirky :)

    November 7th, 2007 at 4:53 pm


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