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Paint Flooring Design Dilemma

Baseboards, doors and door frames, and windows

2 years ago

Hi all, our house just sustained substantial water damage from flooding. Roughly 80% of the house was affected and most of that will be demoed (restoration company is instructed by insurance to save as much as they can)-- flooring, ceilings and walls, SOME door frames, baseboards, etc. The question now is-- do we spend the extra money out of pocket to put in all new baseboards, doors etc or do we keep the style/color we have? It is VERY hard to match flooring to dark baseboards. We were hoping to lighten the house up a bit--but light flooring with dark baseboards is not a great look.

So we have a few options:

1. Stick with the dark stained baseboards, doors etc and try to find a flooring that doesn't clash-- this is the most budget conscious decision but also run the risk of the flooring looking quite bad.

2. Paint/install white baseboards, paint door and window frames white and get new doors. Windows will remain stained wood-- most costly version but will provide continuity and a more modern and bright feel.

3. I have seen some photos where folks paint the door frames white and leave the wood stained doors. Most risky design decision.

Here are some photos. All wall colors will be changing!

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Comments (4)

User
2 years ago
You need to hire a designer for several hours of a consult.
Helen
2 years ago
When I remodeled I got new more modern looking baseboards - probably the four or five inch kind and they are painted white. I had ugly wood molding and I didn't realize how much it enhanced the look of the place until they were gone.

I don't understand the issue of having white door frames and wood stained doors. My door frames are painted white and my doors (which I installed when I remodeled are a wood stain) and they look great. I had the originally poor quality painted doors. Technically my doors aren't completely wood as they have a lamina insert with wood stiles and frame because I wanted less heavy looking interior doors.
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Well, we have something like you describe, though our window trim is painted to match the baseboard. The doors on the first floor are stained wood, while the doors on the 2nd floor are painted. The windows and stained doors are Douglas fir and the wood on the windows was so lovely that we couldn't bear to paint it. Of course, then we had to paint the baseboards and trim as we did not want to mix woods here and Doug fir for all the trim would have been prohibitively expensive. Floors are red oak. Here's some pics: From Doors, Windows, Trim From Doors, Windows, Trim From Doors, Windows, Trim From Moved in
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I would love to know what you ended up deciding as this is EXACTLY the issue I am having right now. It would be foolish to raise all the windows; the top of the door and window casings all absolutely need to align with specially if they are right next to each other as yours are. So the door casing needs to be raised. So you can either have an extra wood piece fitted under the casing and above the door, or pay for the taller door. Don’t just leave it the way it is now or it will infuriate you every single day 😢😢.
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agree..you need actual baseboard because what's there looks blah. but, to answer your question, paint away,,,baseboard and door trim,,,but not that gray in the pic. it's too blue. pick the warmer, darker gray in the flooring. you could do a simple flat baseboard and trim like this. better gray color. or leave it all white and paint door. or paint walls gray and do a wood baseboard. simple pine board here.
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Lorraine Leroux
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Small expense in the scope of work If you can afford it replace it all with more modern styling.
Stacey
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Option 2, you will happy you did.

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