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Trim color & Should I paint fireplace?

16 years ago

Good afternoon! We're mostly down with paint in this room but have stalled on the trim color. The walls are Valspar Garden of Paradise, and the ceiling is Paris Mint. We have Harpswell Green (really more of a buttery wheat color) for the front and kitchen doors (currently dirty white). If we like it, we might extend the Harpswell Green into the hallway, with the coat closet.

The windows are vinyl white, although the interior wooden trim on them (such as it is) continues the Garden of Paradise.

What color should we paint the baseboard trim, the fireplace trim, the trim around the window just to the right of the fireplace, and the trim around the front door (almost touching the window to the right of the fireplace)?

Finally, we've got a lot of stainless and gray tones in the room, plus the iron oxide dining room chandelier. (Really, the chandelier is more of a bronze than iron finish. It's not rusty the way "iron oxide" would imply.) I'm not a big fan of brass and had been thinking I'd paint that brass fireplace front to match the chandelier. Now that we're moving into the space, I might be okay with the brass, even with the stainless and iron oxide in line of sight. What would you do with the fireplace front? Buying a different one is not an option.

Here's a picture showing some of the stainless and gray (Valspar Iron Frost):

Thank you all for your thoughts and opinions!

Cate

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One more thought - our furniture is mostly big, heavy, and antique. The entertainment center is a big cherry armoire, the dining room table and china cabinet are black walnut that have aged dark, and we have a dark brown leather recliner coming into the space. The hearth is made from that typical 1950's flagstone with gray and blue slate tiles interspersed with wine-colored (slate also?) tiles.

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