Painting a door to match the room it’s in is ideal if ‘your room has too many doors, or you don’t like their looks,’ says Dorothy Draper. But if you do like them, you could opt for a contrast hue, in which case Tamsin Saunders reminds us that we need to think about the door as part of a whole, and review ‘how the colour complements and enhances and interacts with the other colours you see through to – whether that’s down a corridor, into another room or out into the garden.’ Importantly, we also need to remember a door’s position as a transition point between rooms, and thus ‘make the door work for both of the rooms it’s in,’ says Patrick O’Donnell, colour consultant for Farrow & Ball.