10 Crisp White Front Doors
Clean, fresh and light-boosting – a white front door can work wonders for your kerb appeal
There’s lots to love about a white front door, whether you’re looking at it from the outside of your home or making it a feature of your interior. Let these very different ways of lightening up inspire you to get busy with your paintbrush this year.
Go all-over white
With period features as striking as these, what more do you need? Traditionally, hallways heavy in period features can be colourful or dark – or, indeed, both at the same time. But this gleaming white front door sets the tone for the rest of the space.
Giving historical details a whitewash not only removes any distractions, allowing interesting architectural elements to take centre stage, it also modernises, lending a fresh, Scandi feel.
With period features as striking as these, what more do you need? Traditionally, hallways heavy in period features can be colourful or dark – or, indeed, both at the same time. But this gleaming white front door sets the tone for the rest of the space.
Giving historical details a whitewash not only removes any distractions, allowing interesting architectural elements to take centre stage, it also modernises, lending a fresh, Scandi feel.
Reverse things
This weeny Scottish home is big on style, thanks to the sharp contrast between blue-black painted cladding and the crisp white front door and window frames.
White is a great colour for imbuing the outside of your house with a sense of neatness and order if you’ve inverted the more traditional white walls and coloured door routine and plumped instead for a strong shade on the walls.
See inside this Scottish home
This weeny Scottish home is big on style, thanks to the sharp contrast between blue-black painted cladding and the crisp white front door and window frames.
White is a great colour for imbuing the outside of your house with a sense of neatness and order if you’ve inverted the more traditional white walls and coloured door routine and plumped instead for a strong shade on the walls.
See inside this Scottish home
Add interest
All white can look lovely, but if that’s just too plain for your tastes, why not add some interest to your door with a big, bold door number? Contemporary brushed or polished steel digits are widely available online.
All white can look lovely, but if that’s just too plain for your tastes, why not add some interest to your door with a big, bold door number? Contemporary brushed or polished steel digits are widely available online.
Work it with a white picket fence
Black ironmongery on a painted panelled door has a certain olde worlde chocolate box charm that’s hard to resist.
Here, the curved white window frames – painted white to match the door – and that classic picket fence, finish the look off to perfection. Now all it needs is a climbing rose to grow up that trellis…
Black ironmongery on a painted panelled door has a certain olde worlde chocolate box charm that’s hard to resist.
Here, the curved white window frames – painted white to match the door – and that classic picket fence, finish the look off to perfection. Now all it needs is a climbing rose to grow up that trellis…
Don’t mess with tradition
The quintessential English home can’t go wrong with a classic white front door and brass detailing. And what a perfect example this East Anglian home is. It’s also been accessorised with lush wisteria and white painted window shutters to very pretty effect.
The quintessential English home can’t go wrong with a classic white front door and brass detailing. And what a perfect example this East Anglian home is. It’s also been accessorised with lush wisteria and white painted window shutters to very pretty effect.
Keep things classic
To get that lovely brightness while also ramping up old-school elegance, combine a white door with a deep wall shade, as in this hallway, where fitted cupboard doors have been painted slate to blend in with the textured grey wallpaper.
Keeping the skirting boards, door frames and ceiling white, too, boosts the trad ambience.
To get that lovely brightness while also ramping up old-school elegance, combine a white door with a deep wall shade, as in this hallway, where fitted cupboard doors have been painted slate to blend in with the textured grey wallpaper.
Keeping the skirting boards, door frames and ceiling white, too, boosts the trad ambience.
Style it out with Scandi
A white front door has the power to transport you to your dream Scandi interior, if handled right. And if you live in a modern or even a 1930s house, channelling this sort of Swedish chic is within your reach.
The key to really nailing the look is light – lots of it. The owners of this home have added a full-length window next to the door, as well as a porthole in the door itself. Not content with the light flooding through those, they’ve also added floor-to-ceiling mirrored cupboard doors to reflect the light throughout the space.
Explore a stunning Scottish home with an all-white Scandi style
A white front door has the power to transport you to your dream Scandi interior, if handled right. And if you live in a modern or even a 1930s house, channelling this sort of Swedish chic is within your reach.
The key to really nailing the look is light – lots of it. The owners of this home have added a full-length window next to the door, as well as a porthole in the door itself. Not content with the light flooding through those, they’ve also added floor-to-ceiling mirrored cupboard doors to reflect the light throughout the space.
Explore a stunning Scottish home with an all-white Scandi style
Upgrade your knocker
A golden lion on a different coloured door could look imposing – and that’s not a bad look for the entrance to a smart townhouse. The white backdrop here, however, gives our chum a far friendlier air. Just give him a tap and feel welcomed in…
A golden lion on a different coloured door could look imposing – and that’s not a bad look for the entrance to a smart townhouse. The white backdrop here, however, gives our chum a far friendlier air. Just give him a tap and feel welcomed in…
Lighten gothic grandeur
Well, we can dream…
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Well, we can dream…
TELL US…
Do you have a white front door? Which is your favourite here? Share your thoughts in the Comments below.
Fresh, light-reflecting white woodwork is an key element for creating the coastal look – and this seaside home does just that, while swerving all the clichés.
Rather than adding decorative anchors or plants potted in beach buckets (though there’s a place for both), the owners have gone for grown-up elegance. There are matching bay trees, smartly potted; classic beach hut wood panelling, but painted in a neutral shade for a grown-up twist; and hurricane lamp-style lights, but paired and wall-mounted for a more classic look. The result is crisp, fresh and smart.
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