Painting our Entryway Door Black

So I've been obsessed with color and painted pretty things lately.  Remember the tubs? :)  Well, painting our tub was a bit of a reach for Cason us, so I moved on to more feasible items.  And doors seemed like the perfect catalyst for my "pretty paint obsession"

Black, yellow, blue, green... gah!  I want to paint every door in my house a color!!! lol.  It's definitely NOT Cason's "trend of choice", this time around.  But he's letting me go through this phase anyhow.

:)  I love that guy.

I realize that we BOTH have to live in this space together, so I decided to start off small...



  Our front door needed a bit of sprucing up, due to the elements from outside.  The direct sun, cold, hot, snow, and kids... makes for a scratched, paint chipped door.

I contemplated re-painting the door myself, but I really didn't want a rolled or brush marked door.  And I also didn't want to invest the time and money into a hard-to-clean sprayer, just for one quick job.

So I hired it out.  I called a neighbor who had her front door painted last year, and she gave me the number of a local painter who charged me a really fair price to not only spray a new coat of black paint to the outside of my front door, but to the INSIDE as well!

He simply taped and tented off the door with plastic and went to town!

Here's a picture of what the entryway door looked like,
BEFORE:

And this is what it looks like now!
AFTER:

I have to admit, the first few days it was a bit "trippy"... Cason was out of town when the inside of the door was painted black and I don't know about you, but when MY hubby is out of town, I'm totally on edge.  I get so jumpy!  Espeically at night.  So the first night that the door was painted black, I walked out to get a drink from the kitchen at about 1am, froze in place and about had a heart attack.  I wasn't used to the dark door, and for a second, out of the corner of my eye, it looked like the door was OPEN to the dark outside. LOL.
gah!  Freak-out much? ha!

Other then that little experience, I've LOVED the black!  

I like that it "anchors" this space.  The white was great too (nice and clean looking), but the black just kind of "grounds" everything and ads some drama to the space.
But I have to say that the BEST part about the inside of our front door being painted black is....

YOU CAN'T SEE THE DIRTY FINGER PRINTS

:)

Learning how to hide dirt = Happy Me

So what do ya think?  Do you like the painted door trend?
Check out some other fabulous bloggers who have inspired me, and also taken the "leap" to add some color to the doors in their home!

Sarah -Thrifty Decor Chick - Black Doors
Shaunna - Perfectly Imperfect - Aqua Door