The front entry of everyone’s home is the center of its attractiveness. You can catch anybody’s eyes if you have a red door at your home’s entry point. Make an impact by dressing it up or by installing additional accessories that will enhance its vibrant color.
A collection of 35 different red front doors for residential homes. Check out the many types of red doors for your front entry.
Get inspired with our door idea gallery. From beautiful exterior doors to warm, inviting interior doors, there are nearly limitless door design options available. TOH helps you identify all those architectural 'thingamajigs' and 'whadya-call-its' you find around the house. View as slideshow. Photo by Nancy Andrews. House Parts You Didn't Know Had a Name. IMAGE 20 OF 20. Photo by Keller & Keller. Your red door should be a mirror of what’s inside your home, so you must make your front entry polished and select a wreath or a swag that will also manifest your own personality. You must change old elements like light fixtures, door locks, knockers, wall mailboxes, and house numbers as they can add glamour to your home’s exterior charm. Choose perfect symmetry for your door accents and light fittings. They should coordinate with any planters, urns, or hardware. Container gardens can add a welcoming touch and lively charm to the exterior of your home. You can make one yourself or you can purchase any ready-made containers from any garden shop. Doing a mailbox renovation will also complement your home and express your personality. So if you choose a mailbox, select one that will match with your home trimmings. It should match the exterior color of your home or your door. You can also try adding decorative fence panels, garden gates, or arbors that will improve your front garden and make your home more attractive. Also make your doorsteps more appealing by adding blossoming urns on the sides of the steps or front walkway and if needed, upgrade the railings on the porch. Your front door can lure more attention if you apply architectural moldings on the sides or even at the top. Stylish sidelights and transoms, and white or ivory door casing will make your red front entry gorgeous. A facelift done to your front door will automatically converts the totality of your home’s curb appeal. The six-paneled front door above has sidelights of clear rectangular glass on both sides, cased in a burgundy framing. The door also has a bronze doorknocker and a “please come in” plate. The front door is coated with burgundy paint and has bronze locks and a bronze handle. It is wholly supported by a white casing attached to the sage green siding. To the left of the door are brick-red wooden resting chairs and white finished wall lamps. This front door and entryway has six panels with a gold metallic kick plate. The door has barn red coatings and is accessorized with a black eagle design door knocker made of cast iron, and black handle and locks. The arch-shaped door has multi-paneled sidelights and transom of clear and decorative glasses. A typically designed cottage door, it is supported by white casting and framing fixed to an ivory wall. The door ceiling is supported by beige-coated columns. This door is a typical cottage-style front door. The red front door has rectangular panels with a golden colored handle and locks. The sidelights on both sides have clear glass panels with geometric designs. The transom is also made of clear glass and is attached to white framing. The red and white cottage-style door has four pillars and a mailbox affixed at the left side just below the sidelight. Source: Zillow DigsTM
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The stone walkway and steps leading up to the bold red front door are lined with shrubbery and bright violet hydrangeas. The siding of the home is in a duller, brick-red. The entry to this home is an arched door decorated with a black, metallic handle, mailbox slot and knocker. The steps leading up to the door are made of bricks and lined with various species of cacti, each with a placard. The door of this house is made of four rectangular panels attached to a mullion of the same brick-red color. The door has sidelights on both sides, composed of five glass panels affixed to the ivory white casting. At the left side of the door is the golden lock, while a traditional exterior lantern light fixture hangs from the center of the small porch. Source: Zillow DigsTM The front door features bronze lion door knocker, handle, and lock. The bright red door also has a golden metallic door mailbox slot at the center. The door is attached to white moldings and framing which has sidelights and a transom. Exterior lighting is fixed to either side of the brick facade around the porch. The steps to the front door are decorated with huge pots of blossoms and plants. A bronze doorknocker, mailbox slot, and knob highlight the door. The red-coated door has white molding and framing designed to look like pillars. This multi-paneled door also has a rectangular transom just above the doorframe. Nestled in an ivory-painted concrete wall, it also features a black finished wall lamp at its upper right side with the house number just below it. This light olive-green house features a double door design. The red-colored door has two handles and locks located at the center and a mistletoe wreath hanging on the right door. The doors are highlighted with two outside lights placed on either side and two tall black pots containing various plants. The front walkway winds through a landscape of lush, properly trimmed and cultivated plants. Source: Zillow DigsTM The arched door features a black metal door knocker, and golden mailbox slot and knob. The red-painted front door with raised upper panels also has a peephole just below the knocker and a lock on the left. The white-coated casting and framing strengthens the door with its arched transom of clear glass. Attached to the rough brown brick exterior, the steps leading up tot he door are concrete. The entry, a six-paneled door, is red and has a bronze kick-plate. On both sides are sidelights with inside blinds for privacy. There are balcony railings above the red door supported by two white pillars. The door is accessorized by a concrete pathway, green grasses, and multi-colored flowering plants. This brick house has a bold red door in a more simple design. Seamless sidelights run the length of the door and are topped by an arched transom. The front walkway includes a small patio just beneath the single step. The absence of a porch is made up for by this seating arrangement. Source: Zillow DigsTM Off-white molding and framing support this bright red door, which has five rectangular panels and features a bronze doorknocker and a bronze doorknob. A black mailbox fixed to the wall is placed at the left side of the door. This door is very similar to the one above, with a lion’s head knocker and white plaster pillars on either side. The narrow entryway has black iron railings on either side. The wear on the door and concrete shows the age of this home. The red of this door is a more muted shade of brick-red, which is still a shade or two brighter than the shingle siding. The series of four steps leading up to the door are stone and mortar. The short walkway up to the steps is lined in easy-to-care-for shrubs. The door to this home is a more modern example, compared to the previous examples you’ve been shown. The left-opening door has three glass panels. The siding of the home is in various materials, including the more industrial aluminum siding on the left and the natural wood above and below the expansive windows. Source: Zillow DigsTM The manicured front lawn has a flagstone path leading up to the front door, which is decorated festively for Halloween. The dusky blue of the siding and trim is emboldened by the pop of the red door. The trim is ornately carved and a golden accent at the top-center adds additional elegance. Instead of sidelights, which we see on most of these front doors, this entryway has panels on either side of the door that match the style of the door, and only very small glass windows at the very tops. The wood grain of this painted door is still clearly visible beneath the bold red. The ornate trim adds elegance to the otherwise unassuming, modestly-sized porch. The fixtures on the door are all brand new, in a shiny gold finish. This impressive stacked-stone home is decorated for the holidays, with two black urns playing host to a pair of poinsettia plants. The double doors of the entryway are decorated with a swag of pine garland and holly wreathes. The pillars on either side of the stairs are also decorated with pine garlands. Source: Zillow DigsTM This simple, unassuming front door has stone and mortar steps leading up to it, with black iron railings on either side. A vintage-style mailbox is affixed to the siding just left of the door. The arched frame surrounding the bold red front door is in a pristine white with sidelights and an arched transom. The brick facade of the building arches up around the transom. Around this southwestern style door is a concrete perimeter that connects to the aged stone building. Vines trail up the walls, above the small window to the left of the door, and nearly reach the door itself, gently draping above the transom. The angular slope of this modern home is reflected in the low-maintenance front yard. The right half is pebbles with several small shrubs, while the left is manicured grass and a small container garden. Source: Zillow DigsTM Download pgadmin3 para linux. Aged brick steps lead up to this distressed, yet elegant front door. The front glass panels are obscured from the inside by polka-dotted curtains. The exterior of the door is brightened by elegant floral wreathes and matching urns used as planters. A plaque to the right of the door proudly proclaims that this is a historical home. A white door frame with an arched top and a half-circle transom help this red door stand out from the more muted shade of the bricks and light gray stone steps. This charming front porch has a door mat, perennials potted in white urns, and the house number boldly placed on the center of the door in a contrasting white. Source: Zillow DigsTM The small stoop of this home is full of beautiful, vibrant potted flowers, including pansies and gerbera. The decorative glass panels on the upper half of the door obscure the view of the home from the outside while still letting in some natural light. A very simple and contemporary front door with light gray siding and brushed nickel fixtures. The top half of the door is adorned by nine glass panels. The blue siding of this home contrasts beautifully with the red door. The small white railings on either side of the raised porch match the pristine white trim around the door and window. Source: Zillow DigsTM This more modern example has a single sidelight on the right side of the door, which has three glass panels taking up the majority of the door. The facade of this home is partially a dusky, beige brick or a light beige siding. The aged brick walkway up to the front door of this home has a small white gate that adds cottage charm to the bright red door with gold finished accents. The curved walkway to the front of this home is lined with manicured landscaping. Outside the door is a small white bench and planter, just under the extended roof. Source: Zillow DigsTM This amazing historical home has been perfectly renovated in a lovely, rich blue. The door and shutters are in a bold red to accent the softer tones of the blue. Saraswati mantra. The wraparound porch is somewhat obscured by the tall bushes and small trees in the landscaping. Related Galleries & Rooms You May Like:Cool Blue Front Door Designs | 50 Creative Container Garden Ideas (Illustrations) | 25 Cool Front Door Designs for Houses (Photos) | 51 Fence Designs and Ideas (Backyard & Front Yard) (c) 2015 Now trending on TOHCutting Shingles with ShearsMore From TOHThe Dormer DilemmaDormers are one of the hardest things to get right on a building. Too small and they look like Zippy the Pinhead (link here?) and too large and they look like Andy Rooney's eyebrows. Proportion is everything when it comes to dormers. One of the This Old House TV show houses had dormers with bad proportions, and Tom Silva came up with a reasonably inexpensive fix for the problem. You can read about it here. It's not unusual for your customers to want a dormer so they can convert and attic or the space over the garage into living space, but they might not know what style of dormer they want. Ask them to drive around with a digital camera and take shots of what they like. And then send them a link to this gallery and have them take a look at the different types we've collected here. Gable
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Doghouse dormers, or gable dormers as they are called in some locations, look the best on most roofs, but the problem is that while they look good from the outside, they won't give you a lot of room inside the house. Mansard
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Have any of you ever framed a doghouse dormer on a Mansard? What's interesting to notice here is that the dormers on the two-window-wall side don't line up with the windows the way they do on the side of the house with the three windows. Maybe they should have pushed the two windows closer together so they'd line up with the dormers. How many discussions do you think the builder and the architect had over that one? Pedimented
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Although you can't see what the sidewall windows and the front entryway look like on this house, chances are at least some of them have a pediment similar to what's on the dormers. The dormers might have not looked so busy if they had some kind of siding covering them, instead of the slate roofing covering. Gabled
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Here's a single doghouse on a fairly large roof plain. Maybe it's over a hallway or a toilet. It can't be providing much headroom inside the house. It was probably put in to get some natural light into the interior of the under-roof room. Decorative Flourishes
Photo by Nancy Andrews
L-Shaped Gable
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Here's a two shed dormer with good proportions. Because they don't have a high peaked roof like a doghouse, you can usually put a shed dormer higher up on a roof. Imagine what the dormer on the right would look like if it were framed as a doghouse. Shed
Photo by Nancy Andrews
What would this have looked like if it were framed as one long shed, instead of three smaller ones? Probably not nearly as good. Shed
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This shed dormer is a nice complement to the gable next to it. The diagonal siding on both is a nice touch. It looks like there is another shed dormer above the gable, this time with a jalousies window instead of a double hung. Wide Shed
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Here is an excellent example of when to use a shed dormer instead of another doghouse. Gabled but Curved
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Eyebrow dormers were popular on Shingle style and some Queen Anne style houses. They are more about form than function, especially the small ones that aren't much more than a blip on a roof plane. Half-Round
Photo by Nancy Andrews
It's debatable whether this is really too large to be called an eyebrow dormer. Regardless, it looks very expensive to build. Eyebrow Dormer
Photo by John Kernick
Another eyebrow, but the proportions look off, mainly because the curve of the dormer is so mismatched to the curve of the windows below. Would this have looked better if the windows has flat heads or if the dormer were a shallow shed? Hipped
Photo by Nancy Andrews
A hip-roof could be the answer to keeping a dormer's roof low. Shed Plus Gables
Photo by Nancy Andrews
Connecting two doghouse dormers with a low shed dormer adds some nice punctuation to this roof. I'm sure you've seen a horrible and too-huge shed dormer that takes up most of a roof plane. This doghouse-shed-doghouse approach is a good (although expensive) alternative.
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