chocolate: Front Door Painted? Check!

A project in the line-up here at Casa Passarette is the painting of the white front door to black. I finally got to Home Depot this past week and, just as I was going to proceed down the paint aisle, I backtracked and decided to look at their Oops paint.

Guess what they had? A quart of black exterior Behr paint. The one with the primer already in the paint. A can of black exterior Oops paint with the primer already in it - $1.00. That’s right, $1.00; 4-quarters, 10-dimes, 20-nickels, 100 pennies. Not only did I save on the paint, but I got a primer in the deal, too! Woo Hoo!

That’s a meant to be for me, so I got it. I told the Home Depot associate it’s a white door. He said two coats should do it {maybe a third} and I should be able to use this one quart to do it all. I’m a little skeptical about that, but we’ll see. So, here we go. Here’s the before of my front door and front of the house.

Front door before

Here it is with the first coat. I was feeling a little unsure, but once you start you can’t stop! After I got a full first coat on, I was feeling anxious and a little nervous as to what hubby was going to think. I got myself nice and worked up over it, but when I regained consciousness and got off the floor I kept on and gave it a second coat.

We redid the siding to a tan color a few months ago, which is what made me want to paint the door black {although I’ve been itching to do it for a few years now anyway}. I asked for suggestions in this post about painting the side lights and, while evenly split between painting them and not painting them, I decided to leave them alone. I can always come back in and paint them black, too. I’ll give it two weeks and see how I feel.

Overall, I am happy that I painted the door black as the white just disappeared. It took two coats and a little touch-up here and there. We have new outside lights that will be going up, too. I may even have a little room at the bottom of the frosted oval to do a vinyl that says “Welcome” or “No. 29”.