COLOURED FRONT DOORS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18542, 12 April 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

COLOURED FRONT DOORS

HAVE HARMONIOUS SCHEMES. Some of the brightly-coloured front doors of to-day look appalling on account of the contrasting colours dsplayed at the windows of the same houses. The colours appear vulgarly crude and overbright, though the crimson, blue or jade, if slightly toned down, would look cosy and cheerful instead of obstrusive. Had the enthusiastic owner of such a front door taken the trouble to match it up with something else glimpsed from the road, how different would the effect have proved. The result of a cheerful matched-up colour scheme for windows and front door is delightful. A charming door in stippled green, with brass knocker and bell-push, finds complete harmony with | little curtains of artificial silk in the self-same green, shot with gold, that j are hung at the windows. Nothing : could be more alluring. Another house has a front of cardinal red. Curtains of the same hue would be unsuitable. So the tone has been conferred upon the railing outside, and the result is equally good. Sometimes a good effect is obtained by repeating the tone of the door n the window boxes and their flowers, j A front door in stippled orange looks J pleasing with boxes containing mari- , golds, just as a door of rich blue is en- : hanced by a window box array of inerarias. And there are now coloured window box tiles in such lovely eelftones that it would be worth while adapting the colour of the front door to them.