21 Eye-Catching Yellow Front Door Ideas

You can add instant curb appeal to your home by painting your front door in an eye-catching yellow. This sunny, happy color radiates warmth and cheer and can complement the exterior of a modern house or modernize an older home. From pale butter yellow to deep mustard to blinding neon, there's a shade to suit everyone's taste and home style. Check out these yellow front doors in a range of styles for inspiration.

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Add a Touch of Neon

Modern Glam

Modern Glam brightened up this glass-paned front door with a piercing shade of neon yellow that amplifies the light reflected on the window panels and complements the flower-edged front walkway to create a warm and welcoming feel.

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Have Some Mustard

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A bold mustard-colored front door adds clean contrast and a focal point to this black, white, and gray home facade.

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Complement With Greenery

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A No. 2 unleaded pencil-yellow door with intricate side lights pops through the ivy-covered facade of this charming house in Ireland.

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Increase Visibility

Lovely Indeed

A bright yellow door helps define the front entrance in this home from Lovely Indeed that is set back from the street.

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Keep It Fresh

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The combination of crisp white and sharp yellow is always refreshing, like this paneled Neoclassical door in Ireland flanked by white Ionic columns.

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Tilt Toward Orange

Most Lovely Things

Blogger Annie Diamond of Most Lovely Things painted her front door for fall in a moody yellow with a mango orange cast that is perfect for fall.

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Add Midcentury Vibes

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A pale yellow door highlights the architecture of this midcentury modern house designed by Joseph Eichler and complements the cocoa brown, white, and light blue paint on the home.

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Let It Weather

Fantastic Frank

This Swedish country house from Fantastic Frank has a weathered facade that adds to its charm, with a painted yellow door whose color has been forged by the elements. A brighter shade of yellow window trim carries the color onto the classic red facade, and forest green door trim adds a third primary color to the mix.

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Pair With White and Wood

Burchard Design Co.

Burchard Design Co. painted this front door in a vibrant canary yellow that warms up the white siding and window trim and is complemented with raw wood trim around the door and on the house number post.

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Add a Dash of Saffron

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An otherwise unassuming brick row house in London is brightened up with a saffron yellow door.

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Double Up

The Organised Housewife

The Organised Housewife gave a formerly brown wood Australian front door a vibrant refresh with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.

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Pair With Blue

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A vintage-style storm door over an ornamental screen—both painted a pale yellow—help to make this house friendly and inviting. This color combination works because yellow and blue are opposite each other on the color wheel, making them complementary colors.

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Highlight Feature Windows

Annie Sloan

Paint designer and chalk paint creator Annie Sloan used two shades of mood-boosting yellow on the red brick exterior of this Victorian U.K. home that highlights the intricate stained glass windows and period trim.

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Go Dutch

Simpson Door Company

Pale butter yellow paint complements the modern farmhouse style of this Dutch door from Simpson Door Company.

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Paint the Inside

A Beautiful Mess

A Beautiful Mess painted the interior side of the front door in a cheerful shade of yellow, then added a DIY privacy pattern on the large glass door pane that still lets the light shine through.

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Make It Golden

Design by Studio Robert McKinley / Photo by Read McKendree

A welcoming mustard front door complements the golden shingled siding of this New England Shaker-style home in Montauk, NY, from Studio Robert McKinley.

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Trim With Blue

A Beautiful Mess

This Amsterdam door captured by A Beautiful Mess has a round porthole-style window and blue edging that modernizes the brick facade and gives it a playful feel.

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Modernize a Vintage Door

Farrow & Ball

Yellow paint adds a vibrant modern feel to this vintage door brightened with Farrow & Ball paint whose color was inspired by classic American yellow cake.

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Pair With Gray

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Gray and yellow are a classic color combination that can work in a range of settings and styles. Here, a bright yellow front door energizes the pale gray facade of this Cape Cod-style suburban home.

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Change Directions

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If you're a landlord renovating an income property with side-by-side units, consider using color to add personality to each side and creating an easy shorthand for giving directions ("It's the yellow door" is easier to remember than the door on the right or left). Different door colors on the facade of this Florida duplex help distinguish neighboring homes and make it easier for guests and delivery workers to find you without disturbing the people next door.

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Add Contrast

Farrow & Ball

An arched yellow door painted with a vibrant shade from Farrow & Ball energizes the charming facade of this timbered house surrounded by a picket fence.

What paint finish should you use for a yellow front door?

For a yellow front door and its trim it's best to use a satin or semi-gloss paint. If you want a high-gloss finish, keep in mind that the door's surface must be perfectly smooth (except for paneling and moldings), or every imperfection will stand out.

What is the meaning of a yellow front door?

The color yellow has various meanings and symbolism, including: the sun; gold; a sense of uplift, serenity, and well being. In feng shui, pale yellow represents Earth, while strong yellow symbolizes fire. In Hinduism, yellow symbolizes knowledge and learning, happiness, peace, and meditation.