HELP! I have to paint new interior doors/baseboards
kirkhall
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New interior Doors - paint or not
Comments (7)Thanks for the answers salmon slayer. Since you'll be replacing the trim I'd go with paint grade door trim, painting them to match the baseboard. I'm happy to see that Mary Beth posted pictures. I was going to do a search in hopes of finding a good example of stained doors with painted trim and she provided excellant examples. Beauitful doors too BM. As for which wood to get the doors in I'd go with whichever matches your kitchen cabinet grain the best....See MoreStained wood trim and interior doors-should I paint white?
Comments (12)I've also painted old stained trim with no regrets. I did not strip it all (tried at first, but it was very aged and too difficult even with chemical strippers and heat guns!)- I simply sanded and used high quality Ben Moore primer and paint with excellent results. I personally much prefer white-painted trim to stained, UNLESS the house is of unusually high build quality. I come from a family of architects so am probably a bit overly-sensitive to proportion and design, so YMMV... but I feel like stained trim really calls attention to each element: doors, windows, baseboards, crown moldings are all brought into high contrast with stain and their placement and proportions become important design elements in a room. If they were well and thoughfully designed originally, that can be a beautiful thing. If not -I'd paint them. Our last house was a 1926 Foursquare. it was definitely much better built than most homes today, however, it was probably a Sears kit house originally, basically a builder-home from that era. i.e. not architect-designed like the previous Victorian I'd lived in. It had stained fir trim (with nice details) throughout, and DH and our friends thought I was crazy to paint it. Guess what? The house looked SOOO much better after I did. It actually became a much classier-looking house. The dark wood around doors and windows -which had been placed pragmatically rather than for aesthetics- made the house seem a bit akward. The white paint allowed the really GREAT elements in the house, like it's gorgeous birch floors, ample sunlight and great "flow", to really shine. Just my 2 cents!...See MoreBaseboards and Casings with Shaker Style Interior doors
Comments (3)We are doing the same thing, installing 3 panel solid shaker doors, but have 3.5 inch trim around a lot of our existing windows that has more detail. Would it be best to match that trim for consistency on the doors or can you mix trims and go more flat and simple on doors? We plan on installing new 5.25 high baseboard that is plain except for one detail at the top....See MorePainting Interior Trim - Baseboards, Doors & Frames, & Window Sills
Comments (2)The problem with doing touch ups or partially doing an area, is that it tends to make everything else dingy. From the standpoint of labor, it is also disproportionately labor intensive. You still have to protect the whole room, even if you decide not to do the ceilings, for example. Similarly, it is far easier and time efficient to do the woodwork before the walls, whether spraying or brushing the woodwork. Were I trying to save money, I would opt to do one or two rooms completely, rather than to do the whole house incompletely....See Morefnmroberts
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