The Door to Your Ottawa House Listing

Posted on June 13, 2008 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

This post has been edited and Featured on ActiveRain, October 14, 2010

 

Paint your door.  What?  Paint wood?  Most men will think that you will be struck dead from painting a wood door (or any wood in the house for that matter) but…

Consider painting your front door. When I was in Ireland I fell in love with the doors painted in high gloss primary colours.  What a treat!!!!  You are going to or living in the house with the yellow (or red, or green or blue) door.  From a long line of row houses, it will be apparent which one is yours by the colour of the door. In Ottawa, where row houses are so popular, where the same builders have built every house on the block or neighbourhood, you might want a way to distinguish your home from others. Get together with your neighbours and think of painting each door a different colour.  Imagine the impact!  Think of what fun it would be to take your door to a new level of interest with bright red or yellow or green. The Irish have it right – row houses with each door painted a different colour.    

All right, maybe the primary colours are not going to work but…  you can step away from the white metal door or bland wood door and into a world of some colour.  The people at the paint shops can give you help in choosing colours.  Remember – If you are going to paint your door, be ready for the comments from your neighbours and do as professional a job with the primer and paint as you can. Have some fun.  After all, it is just a door to your house and not the entrance to the Louvre.   Okay, one caveat, if you are living in a house with an historical designation you may not be able to apply your creativity to colour choices but then, you already know that. 

Photo credit:   Strikingly painted front doors, Infirmary Road @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pnh/112184498/

Valerie Zinger ~ Ottawa, Canada ~ Ph. 613-723-5300 ~ Email  vzinger@royallepage.ca

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