Accessibility Contact Information
Skip to content
Menu Garden & Gun logo

Subscribe Now

  • Food/Drink
  • Distilled
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture
  • Music
  • Sporting
  • Travel
  • More
    • Magazine
    • G&G Distilled
    • Made in the South Awards
    • Back Porch Sessions
    • Wild South podcast
    • Good Dog Photo Contest
    • Event Party Pics
    • Specialty sales program
  • Shop Fieldshop
  • Visit the G&G Clubs
  • Read our books
  • Get our newsletters
  • Attend our events
  • Get G&G Weddings
Subscribe today and save.
Get a Subscription Give a Gift Manage Your Subscription

Keep up with Garden & Gun logo

Sign Up for Our Newsletters

21 of 25

25 Ways to Add Southern Soul to Your Home

21. Choose a Bold Color for the Front Door.

“Painting a front door a bright color is a way of giving a house a stamp of personality,” says Barrie Benson, an interior designer and preservation advocate in Charlotte, North Carolina. She returns often to red. “Growing up, my favorite interiors were often behind glossy red front doors,” Benson says. “Plus, red doors have so many meanings. For instance, some say that before the Civil War, a red door was a sign of safe refuge on the Underground Railroad.” Her red of choice? Benjamin Moore’s Ryan Red 1314. “Make sure you make time for plenty of coats,” Benson says. “The more the better.”

Photo: Brie Williams

Garden & Gun logo
  • Food & Drink
    • Recipes
    • Drinks
    • Southern Tastemakers
  • Home & Garden
    • Homes & Architecture
    • Gardens
    • Entertaining
  • Arts & Culture
    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Books
    • Style & Fashion
    • Goings On
  • Sporting
    • Land & Conservation
    • The Sporting Life
    • Good Dogs
  • Travel
    • City Guides
    • Seven Southern Series
  • Music
    • Back Porch Sessions
    • Artists
    • New Releases
  • Magazine
  • More
    • Back Porch Sessions
    • G&G Reads
    • Made in the South Awards
    • Good Dog Photo Contest
    • G&G Society
    • Event Party Pics
    • The Good Road
    • G&G Distilled
    • Specialty Sales Program

  • Subscribe

  • Newsletter Signup
  • Search
  • Shop Fieldshop
  • Visit the G&G Clubs
  • Read our books
  • Get our newsletters
  • Attend our events
  • Get G&G Weddings
Garden & Gun logo

Subscribe today and save.

Get a Subscription Give a Gift Manage Your Subscription
Garden & Gun logo

Subscribe today and save.

Get a Subscription Give a Gift Manage Your Subscription