Interior Door Color - Stained or White Painted?!
Evan Linhardt
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4 years agoChristine Hatt-Pyne
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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 MoreInterior doors - please weigh in on stained or painted
Comments (10)I prefer painted doors with white trim or stained doors with stained trim. We've had both...correction, we HAVE both. All our doors used to be ash with DARK walnut stain. Early 80s ash paneling in the lr stained the same. Crown and base were stained the same. Honestly, I miss it. Now we have white doors and large white crown and base. It's pretty and it stands out against the dark painted walls. We do have one set of double doors with white trim on this side and stained on the other side, which is a large den with stained wood vaulted ceiling and "burnt pumpkin" faux leather look walls. A Texas/cowboy decor. So I guess I'm a "fan" stained doors with white painted trim when it has to work that way <g>...See MoreMedium Stained Trim, White or Pine interior doors?
Comments (16)Pricing wise, the wooden interior doors are more than double. The front door on the house also costs a good chunk more to get a stainable fiberglass material. If I have wood interior doors, I would want at least the inside portion of the front door to be wood, too. However, it is more of an oak and limited to gel stain kits, while my trim will definitely be pine. I feel like I may have too much wood in the house after wooden birch cabinets, stained pine base, stained pine window jambs, stained pine window casing, and stained pine door casing. Wooden doors would flow with the wood trim, but they would be big chunks of stained wood. Looking around online I see a lot of painted trim and stained wooden doors but NOT near as much stained trim and painted doors. However, I have wondered if I had doors painted a darker color, then maybe the wood stained trim would not look so broken up from the doors. Hoping to get a second opinion on this idea and if anyone has some photos of what I am talking about that'd be good to look over....See MoreInterior doors stain vs white
Comments (7)LAST picture. Sorry. The point is : .................a flat slab painted white, will disappoint. A wood stain door, with some detail is just as Mid Cen ........... Just because doors and drawers in a kitchen/nath are slab.does not negate APPROPRIATE detain on passage doors No to "saker farm" yes to something ELSE. More suggestive of the period.. Then paaint or stain that something else. Now.........................Works both ways. with fabulous hardware or both ways on something like this. Go away from the slab, unless ALL ARE WOOD STAIN. PICK SOMETHING THAT LENDS ITSELF TO both...See Morecat_ky
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