Help! I have a large converted tobacco barn…painted black…which I will be keeping, but need ideas to paint the doors! They are large double sliding doors without windows or any other distinctions. I was leaning towards green, but cannot find a shade that doesn’t look too dark or hideous. Also really like the idea of red…some typical/traditional “barn red” perhaps?
Does anybody have any ideas about specific paint color names/manufacturers? (would prefer Sherwin Williams, but know I can do custom).
Thanks in advance!!
Your barn sounds wonderful!!! I think your property, house, shutters, gates? etc should be on your main list for deciding a ‘trim’ / etc. color! Our home is white siding/black shutters. we’re going with that elsewhere too…Now,…your doors…are you ‘interested’ in having windows set in the top halves? not pricey (!) I used a old window ‘tear down’…only one window. top half went in the LH side, and bottom half went in the RH side. 
you can frame crossbucks and exterior of doors and paint in a coordinating color!..anyway…I don’t have any ideas of a contrasting ‘plain’ door, but even if you just framed the existing ones with crossbucks? it may give you a contrasting color without painting the entire flat door another color? regardless…have fun!
What about grey with black cross hatches?
What are the rest of the buildings/house painted? Unless it’s nowhere near them or can’t be seen with them, I would coordinate that way. As a stand-alone, I might think about tan.
As a stand alone, I might think of a lighter tannish green, can’t think of the color name.
I also reallllly like black with read, espeically a darker and of the reds.
I also realllly like a grey with black, even a battleship grey, but perhaps sligggghtly lighter, but a good dark grey none the less.
Do you have other accents (like window frames) that you can paint to echo your door color?
I was skeptical about the red doors with black barn but found this pic and swooned. That said, I think the windows and cross-buck details are what make it work so well.
Me? I’d leave the doors black but add the cross-buck frame and paint that the accent color. Here’s a good example in white, but you could do a color instead.
My outbuildings are Sherwin Williams Crabby Apple Red. I’m not sure about it with black? It is kind of a cranberry red. I use SW Roman Column for my white and my roofs are called black, but they are a very dark charcoal/light black blend (architectural shingles).
I have pictures, but I don’t think the color shows right on the pics.
I used the SuperPaint and I do think fading on the south side is going to be a bit of an issue.
Equine artist Kathi Peters painted the doors on her rustic barn mustard yellow, and they are gorgeous.
http://cobcottage.blogspot.com/2010/01/art-of-farming-on-small-scale.html
I love the ‘look’ of Dark Cherry Red buuuuttt that Mustard is “DIVINE” ! ~ IMHO
I adore the [B]dark cherry red on a black barn 
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that mustard is simply “DIVINE” ! IMHO [/B]
Go for a lighter, more funky green, maybe. If you can access FB, go here and scroll down to a post from yesterday (10/2) of the barn with the green and black barn quilt. https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaIsForLovers
Kind of a mint green.
MY ! This 'green" is even more DIVINE ~ IMHO
MY ! You simply can’t go wrong with whichever color you choose ~ :lol:
All these colors look great !
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Go for a lighter, more funky green, maybe. If you can access FB, go here and scroll down to a post from yesterday (10/2) of the barn with the green and black barn quilt. https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaIsForLovers
Kind of a mint green.[/QUOTE]
I like the idea of barn-red doors, or black doors with red cross-hatching. (I also like the idea of black doors with pastel pink [NOT hot pink!] cross-hatching but then I have been wanting a pastel pink barn for years now [in my imagination]).
The doors at my current barn are orange (the buildings themselves are medium grey) and I love them, even though I generally don’t like orange.
I also vote for a sunnier green. Not quite lime, but not as dark as forest. maybe a more kelly green shade? I really do love green, it’s just such a happy colour. I like it so much I painted my bedroom lime green (Behr’s “Appletini”) with white trim around window and door/closet and white shelf along the top of a (annoying) ledge that goes around half the room, and the 2nd darkest shade on the same palette for the lower part of the ledge wall and the closet doors. It’s sunny and happy and makes my cold/dark basement bedroom feel warmer and brighter.
I also like slate blue with black. Bit brighter than grey, but not too bright at the same time.
