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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Natasha Brinsmead

My flaky front door was letting the whole house down – these are the 5 steps I took to smarten it up with a pop of colour

Painting a front door pink with a paintbrush.

Forming an important part of the overall kerb appeal of your house, as well as the entryway into your home, the front door often fails to get the recognition it deserves. This is the point at which you should feel a sense of being welcomed in and, as such, your front door ideas should really set the tone for what's to come.

In the case of my own front door, a repaint is very much overdue. Over the years it has been through a host of different colours. When we moved in it was painted a very bright cobalt blue to match the rest of the exterior woodwork and since then it has been through various off-whites and a fresh Eau de Nil.

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