The $40 Upgrade One DIY’er Did To Every Door in Her Home
Changing your interior doors is such an underrated home upgrade. Adding new doorknobs or trim to the doors in your home can improve every room they touch — as can painting them all a new color. Take it from DIYer Morgan of @brickhomehaven, who says painting the doors in your home is “the most impactful home update you can make for under $40.”
Not only is it a fairly low-lift DIY project to paint a rectangular surface, but paint tends to be an extremely budget-friendly option, and it proves that you don’t have to break the bank to revamp your home in a head-turning way.
For Morgan, the perfect shade for her interior doors was Sherwin-Williams’ Urbane Bronze, a classy color that’s basically a shade of brown-meets-gray that created a high-contrast look in her hallway. The color meshes perfectly with Morgan’s modern farmhouse aesthetic, and she even says her home now looks a lot more “expensive.”
Morgan loves the color choice for her doors, and she’s not alone. A pro paint color specialist, Susan Grant (@colorenvydesign), said in the comments that she rarely posts her favorite colors because she knows they look different everywhere, but Urbane Bronze is one of her absolute favorites and she’s used it a lot. “It’s endlessly sophisticated and strikes just the right balance of darkness and warmth,” Grant says.
Although you truly could paint your interior doors any color you please (seriously, if magenta doors or cobalt blue are calling your name, go for it), there’s something about Urbane Bronze’s neutral but bold vibe that works particularly well for interior doors, Morgan says. It’s also a timeless choice that ages well when the time comes to sell.
To capture the same look in your home, you can use Morgan’s same doorknobs, too. (They’re from Lowe’s.) Morgan notes that she painted both sides of her pantry door, but for the bedrooms and bathrooms, she just painted the hallway-facing sides of the doors and matched the bed and bath sides of the doors to those walls, but you could use the hue on both sides of the door, too.
This article originally published on Apartment Therapy. See it there: Here’s the Upgrade One DIYer Did to Every Door in Her Home (for Under $40!)