does anyone know what a single red door on a house means?

Answer 1

i have heard and i stoped and asked about this once. a church hear were i live has red doors on it. i asked the preacher there inside about having heard there being a signifficance to the red doors, he says it is sort of a status thing so to speak, it means the taxes for this particular property have been paid in full and there are no more taxes that need be ever paid for the church property. another person i asked who is now 92 years old and a dear freind to me, sead the same thing the preacher there sead and that it dosent just go for churches but anyware, even goverment buildings. up till then i thot it was strange also and that goverment buildings were tax exempt but i guess not. hope this helps and good luck.

Answer 2

We have a red door....

We have a rock exterior home with beige and brown tones, but here and there is a red that comes out. The door made that color stand out a little more and we like it....

Sometimes things don't have a meaning, even if it does to some others.

Answer 3

The Rev. Bob Furniss
(from the Sauk Centre Herald, 10/28/97)
Have you noticed something new on Main Street? The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan recently had their front doors painted red, following a common tradition in the Episcopal Church. The job was done by Ken Quinlan of Sauk Centre, whose father, as a good Episcopalian, expressed surprise that the doors were not already the "proper" color. Perhaps you, unlike Ken's father, find the red color surprising and wonder what is the significance of red doors on Episcopal Churches.

In the earlier days of the church it was understood that a soldier could not pursue an enemy that had entered through the red doors of a church. The red doors were a symbol of refuge and sanctuary for all people who entered. To all concerned the red on the doors signified the blood of Christ that had been shed so that all who came to him could be saved. Anyone who passed through those doors was safe as long as they stayed behind them.

Over time, Christian people began to see the red doors of the church as symbolizing not only physical refuge and safety, but spiritual refuge as well. The blood of Jesus, and of the Church's martyrs, that the red doors of the church symbolized, would protect you from evil, both physical and spiritual. The red doors spoke to the world of holy ground that existed inside those doors, space that had been purged and made clean by God's Holy Spirit. Today people choose to paint their church doors red for many of the same reasons that churches did centuries ago. The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan, as I'm sure your church does (even if it doesn't have red doors), would like to be recognized as a place of peace, refuge and salvation for all people in our community.

In a world where change seems to happen at a pace that leaves us wondering and uncertain, we hope that our churches proclaim through Word, Sacrament, and Ministry the unchanging truth of our Lord Jesus Christ. In a world where our own sins, and the sinfulness of our human condition, leave us feeling broken, and separated from one another and from our loving God, we hope that our churches can be a place of forgiveness and reconciliation.

In a world where illness and disease abound, where relationships often seem broken beyond repair, where people feel that the cultural values of the day leave them spiritually wanting, we hope that our churches can be a place for physical, emotional and spiritual healing. In a world where domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and physical, emotional, and sexual abuses of all kinds abound, we hope that our churches can be places of safety, where every person's worth and dignity can be affirmed and protected.

It is our hope and prayer that the red doors of The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan are a regular reminder to all people who pass by on Main Street, that this, and every other church in this community, is meant to be a place of refuge and safety from the physical and spiritual evils that we encounter each day.

Answer 4

it means that the wife FINALLY got the husband off his duff to paint the door (she just got me off mine to paint our front door fireweed red last sunday)
it means that moma likes a red door (because it is the wife who chooses colours, men can live in a cave and be happy, we really don't know any better)
it means the husband has one more thing to gripe about and the wife has one less thing to gripe about...hey, a win win situation.
(a RED door??!!) (like my dad said when mom had the kitchen paintet pink in 1957: "O God, it's PINK!" and his expression was one of having just hit his thumb with a hammer) Mom was thrilled, and Dad didn't let her know his mind...my dad was a wise man.

Answer 5

House of Horizontal Refreshment?

Answer 6

I think it means you see in him the best of the best, but your dream says he's not what you think, I mean come on both of you are all dressed up for Red Robin. You have great expectations about what is on the surface and it may not be what you think and so the black abyss is you being unsure about what you know and don't know about him....

Answer 7

They like red.

Answer 8

That was the only can of left over paint in the garage

Answer 9

The people who live there are happy and love coming home!

Answer 10

Fire exit?