What color white paint is best with warm-toned wood trim
We purchased a 90's Lindal Cedar post & beam home. There are natural stained wood trim (medium/warm), doors, and beams throughout the entire house. We're currently modernizing the house (modern rustic farmhouse style), and are struggling to choose a color for the walls (I prefer to stay in the white/off-white family but would consider other suggestions). Do we go cooler or warmer in tone? The wood trim is more yellowy and the floors are orangey. Also, we do plan on refinishing the floors and neutralizing the orange tone, but don't want them to clash with the beams, trim, and doors. Can we truly modernize without painting all the trim white?
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Jenn A
3 years agoK H
3 years agoYes! I think a frosty white would do it. I have BM White Dove for my interior walls(which has a gray undertint) and cherry kitchen cabinets. It definitely lowers the "Orangy" factor of the cherry and helps with the yellowness of our white oak flooring.
I also have a grayer blue(magnolias rainy days) paired with our cherry bannister which cherry also has an orangey hue. If you look at a color wheel for the complementary color and that will help any color issue.
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3 years agoHave a look at the Blog posts and Colorography Lab at The Land of Color .com for attributes of lots of popular paint colours. It allows you to compare similar colours in detail.
If you are looking at whites/off-whites or indeed any colours, note that the higher the Chroma the more colourful colour.
A colour maybe so low in Chroma you might struggle to immediately recognise in which Hue Family it belongs. Even so, every single paint colour does belong to a Hue Family: identifying which, helps you combine colours with greater confidence.
Here are some popular whites by comparison.
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