The unsightly other doors Other entrances can be a focal point for vision, but in many cases this attribute is negative. Other entrances are, more often than not, visually unbalanced with the rest of the house. A house should feel like it has one main entrance. You can use neutral colours (light brown or grey) to hide these features, but this is not advisable. These are not very friendly colours to be entering into and out of each day. A better option is to look at matching them with the overall house colour. The basic fact is that it is impossible to completely hide something, such as pipe work or doors, even using the exact overall house colour. The metal or timber texture of these surfaces will reflect light differently from the house's main cladding surface, be it brick, fibro or weatherboard. However using a matching SHADE on your side door or pipe work can hide them very effectively. A shade is a darker version of the colour that you are trying to match. Similarly if you were trying to highlight something, then use a TINT which is a lighter version of that colour. Large unsightly objects such as garage doors can be broken up into visually more interesting objects, by using colour. If a garage door has a square pattern paint the squares a tint of the overall house colour. Remember though that such painting patterns should have a structural logic. It is okay to paint upstairs and downstairs levels a different outside colour. It is rarely okay to paint the sidewalls of a particular level different colours.