perhaps its the different angle...but I liked the before better.

I prefer this. Much less conservative. Tasteful, vibrant and welcoming!

I love the "after" -- all that juicy color!

I'd like to see it both pics from the same angle...

After is much better. The color is great as is the more welcoming porch. It looks like the awkward brick in front of the door and stairs on the side have been replaced with a direct approach.

Agree with mlleErica!

Hmm. The after looks a little gaudy.

A little too much colour.

A bit too rainbow-y for my personal tastes.

I like it but I would have painted the front door black.

I don't know if the homeowner is reading this but I would lose the chairs. Unless you actually sit in them, they look kind of cluttery. Not many people sit on their front porch. Leave the chairs for the back porch and backyard and keep the front uncluttered. I would also lose all of the clutter in the corner, and the wall hanging. Flank the door with two planters if you need something on the porch.

i love the color. who *doesn't* sit on their front porch?

Don't care for the new colors. I'm having the exterior of my house painted as we speak, and I thought picking colors for this was incredibly stressful. Probably because it costs so much to have it done. I'm going for a red door, Kelly Moore's Indian Red, because it goes with the rest of the house. Unless, of course, I hate the color after it's been painted. :)

I don't sit on my front porch. Much too small, facing west, and one sad view.

It's hard to judge without the context of the whole house. I wonder if the green shutters and white trim were painted to match

"Not many people sit on their front porch."

Neighborhoods where folks sit on their front porches are generally friendlier and safer than neighborhoods where folks don't.

The two greens are nice together. The red and the yellow I would lose.

Take the after photo from the same spot as the before photo.

I like the seats on the front porch. I say, paint them too!

I like the color combo very much, but I don't think it works with the house at all (despite that, I sincerely hope the shutters and trim match). And the front door area is very visually cluttered, both in terms of the poor design and all the stuff.

hot mess

What an eyesore! I count eight different colours in the front porch alone. The effect might be mitigated if it extends over the whole house, diffusing the concentrations of colour, but sadly we can't see the whole house.

jayjay5... I agree. It looks like the circus exploded on their front porch.

Thumbs up on the after. With all the brick, the colors are refreshing...and more welcoming.

Keep in mind, too, that this picture came from someone who works for FPE (the paints represented in the picture). I think the goal was more to show how pretty the FPE paints can look, than to show an actual color scheme.

I think heather77 is right. It is a paint color demo. Problem is, there isn't much to paint on the front of this house since most of it is brick. I would have done the chairs if it was my project and that was the goal.

I think the entrance to this house is designed to encourage sitting out on the front porch but I think Adirondack chairs are all wrong for the style of architecture. I also really, really dislike "before and afters" that are not shot from the same angle.

As for sitting on the front porch or not, I really believe the decline of neighborliness in many communities can be directly tied to the abandonment of front porches in home design in favor of private decks and patios on the back. Apparently we have Frank Lloyd Wright to thank for this trend, at least in part--his early designs had front porches meant for sitting and socializing but as he developed his style he turned his homes "inward," where front entrances are all but hidden and private family spaces are the focus.

amazing and bold use of colour. I love it! But then I live in a colourful city and personally can't stand bland beige and white 'tasteful' 'designer' colours....bring on the bright!

Thumbs down! It looks tacky. Some things are better left alone.

Color selection does not compliment this house in the least, makes it look like a frat house. If my goal were to add warmth and welcome, I'd have stuck with window boxes, hanging and container plants, and if it were in my budget, a bit of landscaping and new window treatments. I'm with sunrise, Blandwagon and Turbo_Elba.

hot hella yes!!!

Preppy drag circa 1978: Yellow Izod polo shirt over pink Izod polo shirt, lime green chinos, Docksides, no socks, untied.

No doubt FP of E makes some really quality paint with gorgeous colors, which the after photo shows. But I'd have to see the house from the same distance to gauge how those colors look in relation to all that brick and that house style. With that said, if they'd like to show off some more paint colors on the front of my rowhouse in Bmore...have at it!

As long as you're "re-editing" a post from 2009, you could have amended the word "recently."

I agree it is a bit too colorful for me as well. The brick is very pink/red so I don't think the original shutters and door worked with it very well...but it was better than this new explosion of colors.

So much of the After picture is different from the Before-where is the window to the left of the door? Porch seems much deeper than the 1st picture, a second story downspout...all expensive or difficult changes that are making me wonder if this might be the backside of the house. If so, the bright multicolored is probably pretty happy and fun, but I'd reconsider for the front. The colors (I count 5 different ones) seem a bit jarring.

Color is a funny thing. What’s beautiful to one person is hideous to another. Our home’s previous owner painted every surface he could reach a different vibrant color. And by vibrant, I mean blinding. And when I say reach, I mean with scaffolding and extension ladders. He was serious about the paint.

Our front doors are a shocking shade of purple, Our Doors
The underside of our porch roof is bright orange… and he didn’t stop at the doors. Or the porch roof. He did the shutters, the foundation, the trim on the eaves…and that’s just the outside.

We buy primer in 5 gallon buckets. The amount of base-coat you need to cover neon pink paint is astounding.

Before was a bit dull, but I prefer it to the after - colors are too jarring.

The storm door ruins it, it looks tacky. To much.

Someone nearby (luckily not TOO nearby) has painted their bungalow lime green with fluorescent orange trim. It's shocking and ugly. At least there isn't a purple door. Makes this look quite subdued. Just for the record, we sit on our east facing front porch when it's too hot to sit out back or when we want to enjoy a sunrise. Not a lot of people sit out front but lots of neighbours passing by stop to chat with those that do.

I like it. I would like it even more if we had an after picture at the same angle as the before picture. That way we can have a different perspective than a close up. It's hard to tell how it has changed the look of the home.

I'd really like to see a photo from the same angle. Are the greens in the porch arcade the same as the shutters? The door color seems to pick up the brick colors, but I might have stuck with a different yellow color. What happened to the window frames and bay window - did they stay the same? What do the plantings look like, are there yellows and reds there? I can't tell whether I like it without seeing the whole picture.

OTOH, I like brave color choices, whether or not I would have made them, so kudos for that.

I have to go with the "Hot mess" comment, too.
Although I love colour I think the red and the yellow clash with the brick. Sorry, but the house looked much better before.
And I, too, prefer the Before and After pictures taken from the same angle for consistency.

"Look! We're trying to sell paint!"

I think it works fantastically! I would never have considered that color combination, but something about it is eminently pleasing to me.

I love sitting on my front porch... of course, we have a very large porch and historic house... I might not feel the same if I lived in a subdivision.

HOLD UP! Is this even the same house? Did they Seriously replace that beautiful window to the left of the door with a hanging cow?

OK, it looks to me like that "missing window" might well have been a storm door simply leaning against the wall by the real door. (Maybe not, but it looks that way to me.) Also, it appears as though perhaps the porch was remodeled into a flatter, wider patio. Since this was not meant to be a Before and After in the usual sense, only a color change, getting all snitty about the angle of the photos is pointless. The new photo does show the variations of paint nicely, and the full on view wouldn't have done that.

I like the colors. They all harmonize with the brick, and I like the playfulness of the combination. (Would I do that at my house? Probably not. I prefer a more conservative backdrop for landscaping. My house is green (between teal and forest) with white trim and black door and shutters. Flowers look lovely against it!) But this house looks fun, and the "before" looked fusty.

Totally love it. Bold, fresh, homey.