Red Front Door ?

RickS · Post by **RickS** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:26 am

What is the meaning of having a Red front door on your house ?

Erica S · Post by **Erica S** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:33 am

That you like the color red??

Erica

Post by **Celia** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:27 pm

It seems to have a number of possible meanings. For example, a red front door seems to have some sort of Feng Shui significance - welcome, I think. But it seems to have other meanings as well, depending on religion or ethnicity. I Googled "red front door" and got 857,000 hits.

Post by **DonnaT** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:18 pm

A number of years ago, back in WV, I painted the front doors to our church red. Everyone liked it, except the priest.

Davita · Post by **Davita** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:21 am

If I recall, red is the color for luck in the Chinese culture. Years ago, I found this site before it went commercial. There is some (not much) free info left on it; see http://www.colorvoodoo.com/.

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:38 am

I'm curious, why the question? I would not have just thought that it meant anything more than a liking for red front doors

April Rose · Post by **April Rose** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:59 am

Paula, there's a history to it. It was nearly twenty five years ago, so I don't remember the exact details of it, but I remember reading about it when we bought our house. In colonial America it was the common practice. Most front doors were red. I think it was a welcoming thing, but that's the part I'm not clear about. Anyway, since Massachusetts is a colonial state, and we have an older house, we decided to honor the custom, with a variation of red, which I have reapplied several times since.

Davita · Post by **Davita** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:01 am

Maybe the doors were red back then for the same reason barns are red?

Post by **KimberlyS** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:13 am

Many Episcopal churches have red doors. Not sure the reasoning for it but have heard it was tradition when we discussed it last at church. No one knew the basis for the tradition.

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:37 am

Our front door was red when we bought the house and remains that way.

Red being a striking color maybe it's a way of calling attention to the entry.

Zari

Ralitsa · Post by **Ralitsa** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:08 pm

I thought is was so that you could see it really easy late at night when coming home after having a few too many. That's not it??

Leeza · Post by **Leeza** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:55 pm

and I thought it was to make the neighbors wonder about what went on behind the closed door.

Leeza

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:10 pm

No that's Green front doors

Leeza · Post by **Leeza** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:17 pm

sometimes I have wondered and color didn't make a difference

Leeza

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:22 pm

I was thinking of the old Shaking Stevens song "Behind the Green Door"