Question about removing paint from old dark wood trim
aclark64
10 months ago
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Can I see what paint colors you chose with dark wood trim?
Comments (3)We have dark wood trim in this house and our previous. I tend to stick to more earth tone colors rather than darks. Our current living room/dining room is latte from Restoration Hardware. In the old house our dining room was a turquoise blue and it looked great with the dark trim and hardwood floor. We are also painting two bedrooms and keeping the dark wood trim. One will be a pastel blue (Atmosphere Blue from RH) and the other a very pale pink (Petal from RH) Any contrast will be enough. I would just stay away from dark brown or red shades. The trim could be a stained oak. Ours is mahogany....See MoreDark wood trim & doors too dark?
Comments (11)You've got such a tough decision here. While light doors and trim brightens up everything, it does show stains and scuff marks. I think it depends on how neat and clean you are and how much things like scuff marks and handprints bother you. I think it also depends on your inspiration pictures for your home. What do you get really excited about when you see pictures of other homes? How are you inspired? We lived in a 70's home with painted trim and hated it. We lived in a 90's home with stained trim and doors and loved it. I'm sure the dirt was there, but you couldn't see it. The scratches and knicks just seemed to add character to me. We now live in an 8 year old home with white doors, trim and cabinets. It always looks dirty to me. I am constantly cleaning and never done. We have three kids. As I get older, I just kind of give up. I just get to what bothers me the most in the public rooms. However, it is the brightest home we have lived in. Just remember, if you're worried about it being too dark, your fabrics, wall colors, drapes, ect. can all be light in color. We will down size in about 10 years (hope to), and it will be to a one level house with stained woodwork and a beautiful fireplace, something I don't have now. (aahh, now I'm off to daydream!) Good luck. Whatever you decide it will be beautiful I'm sure. Floors, cabinets and open floor plan sound wonderful....See MoreTo paint or not to paint? Questions about wood paneling....
Comments (24)That entry is absolutely exquisite! Whatever you do, keep that space the way it is. I do enjoy seeing well preserved specimens of high end mid century interiors. I agree with others about living in the house for a while before you do anything. We bought a mostly unadulterated Victorian, and we had fantasies of getting a bunch of stuff done before moving in (5 months from close to move in), but ended up only refinishing some floors (low impact change). Now I'm super glad we didn't try to do anything - we're getting a sense of how we live in this house (it turns out we use the butler stairs A LOT, and my husband had wanted to tear them out!) and a sense of the small things that wouldn't have even occurred to us before we'd spent time living here, like the fact that we need to add a second ceiling light at the far end of the hall, that we need some more electrical outlets in the dining room, etc....See MoreQuestion about reusing wood from old oak French doors
Comments (6)@Isaac thanks and this is an option but where we are (Nova Scotia) there are lots of old doors to be had. In fact I bought an entire set (10 doors) from and old manor house including a set of sliding 4x8 parlour doors for an office space I renovated. I was thinking it would be nice to keep the old wood in the house, and repurpose it, but obviously from the comments here, that’s not a great idea. There’s also lots of lovely reclaimed wood for sale so that’s probably what I’ll do. Thanks everyone for going easy on my first discussion topic!...See Moreaclark64
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