I would do a light tan to match the surrounding wood, not the trim. Some contrast.
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I prefer lighter colors on doors. Helps me see them at night and low light times.
Mine are white and it’s a PITA to clean, they always look dirty. My vote is light tan/cream color.
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In the barns, we use outdoor steel doors, like for the tack room and I was thinking on our doors.
Sorry, didn’t realize yours only had a primer.
Everything looks so wonderful! 
I’d go with that light tan color that you’ve used on the interior of your cubby, or do something fun and bright, like yellow or red. Do you have barn colors at all? You could use one of them there.
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I didn’t even notice the color on the back of the cubby, but absolutely go with that so you have a system, not a random mishmash of colors – unless of course you go with a barn-color statement on the door, another good idea!
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I would go with the green stripe color for the door.
Be bold!
I think it would look amazing, but my tack room is pretty wild, so consider the source. 
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I have colors I ride in in competition, but the actual barn colors are “aged tan and faded green”. I hope it have at least the green painted brown at some point, but I’m running out of energy for big projects!
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That’s what my mom said! I originally was painting the trim that green based on her take but I HATED IT so went over it with the brown. So… the green is the stripe ONLY. 
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I’d paint it a deep dark green to coordinate with the barn color. Or, if you’re going to paint the barn brown eventually, paint this door chocolate brown in preparation.
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I think we meant the competition colors, at least I did, not the building colors. In that case the door would be a “statement.“
I had forgotten about the green stripe. That does throw another color in the mix to choose from. Basically my thought was you already have several colors in close proximity so unless you are making a very specific statement, choose one of the ones you have used nearby. Hold up swatches and choose whichever one you like!
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Yep, that’s also what I was thinking. Wide stripes of the competition colors would be pretty slick.
But painting stripes is also finicky as hell so I’d probably just go with the cubby color and save something fun for later 
I think a dark door would be too much dark. A lighter color will keep the space more open feeling.
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Just throwing out some off the wall and onto the door ideas…
There are door vinyl wraps if you wanted to get creative, or use a vinyl border wrap in a suitable design manner…
Also…wallpaper and polyurethane…
Fear not the decoupage!
I want to do a plaid vinyl wrap on your door and move in, but that’s just me.
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Oh I didn’t know they made these for doors, how FUN!! I’ll browse through them.
In other news - the old trusty tractor broke down in the field. Some front steering yoke thing flat out snapped, I can’t even move it. Drat.
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Ohhhh that sucks! Hard to get along without a tractor.
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What an amazing accomplishment! I don’t know what you landed on for stall dividers, but i’m also looking for solutions that don’t close off back doors. Ive found a few, but i’m surprised there aren’t more. I understand previous posters concerns about corners and flow. If you are still searching check out these: this one is good except for the part where hoofs can get caught. This one is not available, but it could be used as a guide to fabricate one. Just wanted to pass along these alternatives to fully hinged stall wall. I have not found the perfect solution. I would love a safe accordion style 1/2 wall, but I can’t find any. What was your solution?
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I ended up using an aisle guard. My horses aren’t fractious to the point they will tear it down, so it works for my needs for now!
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In other news… we went to try and fix the backflowing tile. Thought it was a 6" tile to match the 6" hickenbottom. Dug in to find it’s a 10" field main, and it’s blocked at the neighbors pine trees (and who knows where else). The pressure from the water in the bean field makes it backflow.
All that to say… they are wanting to dig a new tile in through our property. Which means tearing up the dry lot, taking down fence, cutting down trees… etc. etc. My favorite part about it all is they want me to pay 50%… for a 10" tile main… to drain the soybean field across the street. They want me to pay for the privilege of having our land torn to shreds.
Hey, how about eff that. I’ll deal with the backflowing if they think I’m going to pay. I’ll chip in if he will disconnect from the 10" through our property and run it a different route, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay someone to allow them to cross my land
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Maybe I missed something upthread… how does your neighbor justify your responsibility for the shared cost?
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This is totally new. This is the farmer across the street. The nosey neighbor is trying to insert himself but he has told about 5 different stories about this tile, all of which turned out wrong when we put the backhoe in the ground. I told him to his face that I’m tired of his “make it up as you go” theories that are presented as fact and to leave us be to handle it. It’s our property, our problem.
The tile that he came at dark, drunk, to accuse me of crushing - it was clogged with roots from the neighbors tree. Who does that, accuses the neighbor of something before doing their due diligence?
I’m done with them. I have tried and tried to be amicable but I’m done. If they apologize for the third survey, the accusing me of taking out the clean out, the accusing me of tying my gutters to the tile, the accusing me of crushing the tile, EVERYthing, then I’m willing to try one more time to be nice. But as it stands now - hell no.
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Is this troublesome tile mentioned at all in your Deed description/plat or are there any easements that have been granted for this type of utility?
Every State is different when it comes to the details, hopefully they have no claim to use. A perusal of county records might be worthwhile.
This has the feeling of messing with the new kid on the block…if that turns out to be the case the only thing I would have to offer them would be middle fingers.
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