Choosing A New Front Door Paint Color

As I mentioned late last week, we ended up repainting our front door a happy new green/blue color called “Halcyon Green” from Sherwin Williams. You can see the full video here as well as the article one of their writers put together around the video, and today I thought I’d share a few behind-the-scenes tidbits from the shoot as well as a couple of tips for choosing a new front door paint color if it’s on your to-do list this spring.

When the House Beautiful team reached out to me about the possibility of working together on a video, they introduced the project with a list of potential topics that we could cover.

John and I had already recently replaced and painted our front door, so I didn’t think I’d be able to use our own home as a focus for the video (joke’s on me since I ended up repainting it anyway, haha), but I knew that my mom had been anxious to paint over her plain white front door.

It includes things like, “(1) Wide straight-on shot of the house with the plain white door before paint. This shoot also required a quick introduction and outro featuring yours truly, so I sent through my script for those two pieces of the video for the team to approve.

Once I had their go-ahead, I made myself little print-out “cue cards” from the approved intro/outro copy, and taped those to my video camera, which I had set up in front of our sofa. In the end, as you may have guessed, my mom and dad chose “Halcyon Green” for their front door color, and I loved it so much once it was done that I decided we needed to use it at our own house!

I had actually suggested Halcyon Green as a complete wild card because I remember loving it in the living room at our old house. Every time I pull up to my house—or my parents’ house—these days I can’t help but smile when I see that happy front door color.