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White base boards, doors, door frames, but wood windows?

roobear
10 years ago

How weird is it to have white doors, white door trim, white base boards, but stained wood windows?

We live in a 1960's split entry, the woodwork/trim is all simple, pine flat plain doors, stained very dark redish (silghtly orange) brown. The decision to change the woodwork came because our hallway is narrow and has 6 door ways/doors and no natural light, it was just too dark for me in that small space and the house is pretty dark with all the dark stained woodwork. The doors also weren't in the greatest shape, so we decided to replace them with new 6 panel white doors and paint the door frames/baseboards all white since we installed medium stained oak floors.

We are also adding a fair amount of storage (built ins) in the house because it really doesn't have any. The built ins will be painted white because some of them will connect to the entry and because I am using some salvaged cabinets to save some time and recycle. The entry being very small is getting white wainscoting, a white door, and will have white built ins instead of the typical railing you see in a split entry.

I know I'm jumping a round a bit, but the point is there is going to be a lot of painted white trim, doors, built ins etc. and I'm wondering if white windows will just be too much white. I didn't like the dark stained plain doors, but for some reason I do like the stained wood windows and have a hesitation in painting them. The windows in the living room and dining room are fairly large almost covering an entire wall space.

One other option I've considered is painting the outer window trim white but the actual windows being left stained, however if I want to put up any window treatments that may look kind of busy with the strong contrast the windows would have.

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