White vinyl windows look horrible with dark stained trim
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Does anyone have white windows/trim AND stained interior doors?
Comments (21)nepool, I love the picture in your first post. That door is beautiful and it looks so nice with the wood floor and the whole room. Are cased windows something a lot of people do? We have never had cased windows. Of course we have a window sill but not cased. Maybe it's a regional thing. Since you have stained trim maybe you can answer a questions for me. I am concerned that if I do all stained that it will limit paint choices in the future. My house has all white except the kitchen cabinets. I remember when we painted the kitchen having to find a color that went with the cabinet color (some stains have more red or yellow in them). My sister has stained trim and doors (in her words, ugly stained trim) and when she painted a room and didn't think about the trim and the dark blue doesn't look like she had expected next to the dark trim. I have a dark blue room with white trim and the contrast is striking. We don't even have a floor plan yet and these details are driving me crazy....See MoreColored trim with white vinyl windows???
Comments (9)I have always been kind of an "anything but white" (as one poster here has called it) person but as we gradually replace our cheap (and dark) aluminum replacement windows with wood windows, I'm working with colour around the windows and beginning to appreciate white or cream. The reason is that when looking out the window during the day, if the frame is dark the window looks like a hole - the framing is so dark in contrast that it is not visible. Of course, if you look at the window frame when lights are on in the room and the curtains closed, it looks fine. White frames, whether it's the actual window box or the moulding around it, pick up the light that is coming in and play with it, illuminating the room better and also allowing the trim, and its detail, to be better seen. I think in Daniaadele's lovely photo, above, you can imagine that if the windowboxes were not white, you would not be able to see any detail of the inside wall or window. So while I like coloured windows in theory, in reality they are maybe not the best idea, and maybe it is a good thing you have white mullions! BUT I am also a big fan of doing what you like, or at least trying it, otherwise you end up staring at it for the rest of your life wondering what it would have looked like. Can you pre-try the painted moulding concept by painting some boards in sage and propping them up in front of the window? Karin L...See MoreWhite Door/Window with Stained Trim
Comments (4)The only negative affect of going all white except for the outside trim, is that the combination will highlight the fact that your trim is the bare minimum. Personally I don't think this is a big deal. I don't think anyone is going to walk in your house and be struck by the fact that you have thin trim. Surely there will be nicer things in the room to draw attention away from the trim....See MoreWhite glazed cabs with stained wood window trim
Comments (6)pudgybaby- great question and one I've been mulling over myself. There was a kitchen recently where the poster did just that. She had while trim above her sink but the window next to the refrigerator and in her adjoining family room were stained. Look through all of her photos- the ones I'm talking about are at the end. I think what makes her kitchen so successful is the originality of it, the wood countertops that coordinate with her stained window trim, the stained wood island, painted beadboard trim and the warm feeling it gives off. It all goes together so beautifully! Here is a link that might be useful: twoscoops kitchen...See Moremainenell
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