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Snowbound walls with chantilly lace trim

2 years ago

Hi! im repainting my house slowly and wanted to go for a brighter look. we currently have chantilly lace trim, standard ceiling white, and walls are in various warm/neutral/light/dark grays. I started with my living room, painted the walls chantilly to match the trim and it looks awful. I did hear that chantilly could take even four coats. But after high quality primer and two coats the walls look so icy trim looks bright with touch of warmth, what I was expecting. I am repainting walls with Snowbound but keeping trim chantilly lace.

Does anyone have photos or experience with snowbound walls and bright white trim like chantilly lace or high reflective white? I have seen many pictures of snowbound walls with snowbound trim and it looks great but I can’t repaint all the trim as well, it would be costly, plus I dont know if I want to commit to snowbound trim in the rest of my house which all has chantilly. (If I were repainting my whole house in one go I would do it, but we will probably take a room by room approach over a few years as our children are sure to destroy the playroom paint, etc.

Thank you!!!

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kandrewspa
2 years ago
The bottom line with paint is that if it looks good to you it is OK. Paint colors look different in different types of light. So if you have painted one room with Snowbound walls and Chantilly Lace trim and you like it you can proceed, knowing that it might not look exactly the same in another room simply because one room faces north and the other faces south. There is no rule that says the trim has to be the same as the walls. They just need to be complementary.
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I wouldn't put those two colors together either. Since you already have Chantilly Lace kitchen cabinets you should go with that color. For me that would be way too much white, so if that is what's making you hesitate and gravitate toward a warmer white for the walls, look at other off whites for the wall color such as Silver Satin, White Wisp or Paper White. Warm colors don't really go with Chantilly Lace. If you use all Chantilly Lace, the different sheens will cause the color to look slightly different on the walls as compared to the trim so maybe that will be enough difference for you. Sample before paying someone else to paint so you're sure and you don't waste your money. Or if you do it yourself you will be wasting your own time. Your bedrooms and bathrooms are opportunities to use other colors if you don't want all white. It is usually best to carry the same trim color throughout a house, but I have cheated on that if there is a doorway (with a door that closes, not just an opening) between rooms. In that case the average person won't notice if the trim colors are different.
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