Order Plantation Shutters to be hung outside mount. Trim will be covered.

I sure would not do plantation shutters with that view some solar shades to control het and UV and keep the total view . The shutters are going to cut the view in half and look way to heavy for the space . Mybe just a white wash on the wood around the space with the white trim . For me I would just apint it all but a lot depends on youe style too. For sure no pediments .If you do the solar shades you can leave the wood and once the roomsis decorated you will see if you need the white at all I would do linen drapes and walls to match but I hve no idea og your actual style . Maybe post pics here of your LR in your home you are leaving.

What room is this, meaning what is the purpose of the room? What is the style of the house? Is it a new build or a renovation? What are you planning to do with the floor? I rather like the stained trim, it looks like good wood, but it's hard to tell.

Why shutters at all? I love the wood trim, your view is beautiful. I agree with @Patricia solar shades

This will be a TV / sitting room. I'm going to post a few photos for my style. It is a 1903 Victorian farmhouse we are redoing. The views are spectacular! I love all the trim and want to save it in this room but hubby wants the vintage shutters put back. I want wood floors and kind of love the vintage style with a little farmhouse French. Maybe these photos will help. Thanks for all your help! I do have mindful grey in another room and it looks like a natural color. I would love to have wood shades for control and natural linen drapes for softness. If I keep the trim and no shutters what color would you paint it? This room just has me stumped and I think I'm usually pretty good.

This trim is nice I see no reason to paint it, and you haven’t shown the shutters. In most cases I dislike shutters. In yiur endless maintenance list maybe someday the Victorian 2/2 windows can be restored on the first floor! Amazing house

Our house has a lot of wood -and wood trim -too. The seller (who also built the house) put matching wood blinds on every window. I thought I would be changing them out but I have found that they are a perfect complement to the wood trim. Adding soft lightweight drapes later on might be an option (which I’ve considered) but the wood blinds have turned out to be perfect. We also have a spectacular view we don’t want covered. Most of the blinds remain up all the time, except the bedrooms.

I love your house!

OMG, what a gem of a house!!! Please don't paint the trim, it is old wood and looks to be in fine condition. I agree with RedRyder's suggestion for wood blinds, the same or similar color to the trim. We have a new (30 year old) family/TV room with antique wood and have had wood blinds forever. It works very nicely to control the light in the room, and looks beautiful as well.

Actually on two of the windows we have interior shutters that were custom made. They fold back into a frame, but we hardly ever close them. Then you can add linen curtain panels if you want. We used to have swags on the windows, then chenille curtain panels, but now we only have the blinds. It's a simpler look.

Before you decide on a paint color, figure out how you are going to lay out and furnish the room. If you have a rug, you can select a color from the rug. If you have upholstery or other soft furnishings, take your cue from that. Usually you select wall color last, since it's easier to find a color from the many thousands to coordinate with your furniture than vice versa.

The reason you're having a hard time picturing what you're considering is because it won't work. You can get wood shutters probably in a color pretty close to the trim color. You bought a beautiful old house, don't ruin it by painting the woodwork. I agree with the other commenters that Mindful Gray isn't the best color to go with the woodwork. The Dover White Beverly showed looks great. If you don't want a light color at least move to a warmer color away from gray. I know Mindful Gray isn't a strong gray, but it still leans that way which isn't ideal for this room.

Without knowing what else will be in the room, it's not really possible to say that Mindful Gray won't work. It's possible that it could be very beautiful.

No shutters! The view is wonderful. Curtain panels with sheers on grommets or rings that make it super easy to open and close them. Then you won’t need to paint the trim.

OP has painted most of the trim in the house already.

The real question is why white plantation shutters seem to be your only choice as window coverings?

Beautiful home. i love your style. Very charming!

Agree wholeheartedly with Diana! Do not paint the trim, and find different window treatments. You could go with a soft sage color for the walls:

Here's BM's Healing Aloe:

Or you could just do a warm white, as Beverly suggests. I like either BM's Simply White or their Sailcloth.

Simply White:

Sailcloth:

This is a gorgeous house, and it has gorgeous trim. It makes me very sad, that someone has been painting it all white. This house should have been restored to its former glory, rather then renovated to be something it is not.

Yes paint the trim and lower wall white with the white plantation shutters..it will be gorgeous…take a look at SW 2025 color trends….for the upper walls….

As usual here on Houzz, you have wildly different opinions on what to do. I hope you are happy with the decision you and your husband make.

Cat_ky there was no way to save those rooms except paint. The vintage wainscotting was in very bad shape and some painted purple, some old grey looking stain and some like a mauve, all done when the house was in her early stages. Nothing would bring it off. The large was showing in most of the rooms and porches falling in. We have our a lot of love into this home. I'm sorry you can't see where we started.

Wow, Vicky, now I'm REALLY impressed! You have done a fabulous job so far with this house.

Most would have probably knocked it down, but you are indeed renovating it to its former glory.

Can you post a photo of what the original shutters look like?

I do understand why you painted in the other rooms. Wow, that was a mess. A big undertaking too. You have done an amazing job. I hope you enjoy your home for many years to come. I have lived through the white trim thing, during my life time at least 3 times, and have really grown, to dislike white trim, and white cabinets too, but, thats me, if you love white trim, etc, then enjoy it. I dont dislike painted trim, though, I just prefer it to be a color.

It’s okay to have some painted trim, and some that remain original, IF it’s in good shape. Clearly, you know what you’re doing if you took on this very big project.

Just another paint color idea - our house has a lot of wood trim (including an incredible tray ceiling in half of the great room) and I used SW Antique everywhere. It reads as a warm white to complement the wood. Just thought I’d throw it in the ring of “white ideas”.

Don't forget the 5th wall ... the ceiling. It's quite large, and its color will affect the overall look.

No, we cant see the detail of the wood but can judge by the age /era the house was built - vintage wood in past centuries/ early 1900s buildings is pretty much all that is left of the old growth forests that once blanketed North America - even the white pine which was considered "cheap" wood of its day is hard as nails, free of knots, tight grained, beautiful, vastly superior to the farmed wood of today which is weak and splintery due to growth accelerants. Look at prices in architectural salvage if you doubt the value - its basic supply and demand. As with anything of quality the less there is the more the $$ value. IMHO this info needs to be a part of any conversation about painting wood of earlier eras - just so not only OP but readers can make an informed decision. Obviously we still have property rights in the US, so not to worry, no wood police is going to show up! It's just part of the conversation.

Anyway! That is a spectacular room and IMHO would benefit from a more "woodsy" interior vs the gray and white thing going on elsewhere - tie in the outside with inside by using nature colors with wood. You have a big house, why not mix it up a bit. If you dont like straight up green, there is a vast array of beautiful gray-greens all of which pair well with wood. Is the wainscotting original? Cant see clearly but it looks different from trim/floors. If it isnt maybe consisder removing?

I'm leaning towards the sailcloth color paint with natural color drapes. I thought about alabaster but I have that in the foyer. I know greens look good with wood but I have a greenish bedroom with wood furniture. Here is a photo of the vintage shutters. They are being repaired bc some of the slats were falling out but you can see what they look like. I of course would paint them, IF I used them. I like the look of woven woods IF I keep the wood trim. And I can see faux wood beams in the ceiling. Yes the wainscoting is original and 4" tongue and groove 6" wide. Beautiful wood and that's why I wanted to keep them. But I just couldn't imagine wood trim with white shutters! And the daughter that grew up in the house tried to paint the shutters and dripped white on the wood trims. So I'm taking a mouse sander to see if I can remove it. I tried stripping it off but doesn't come off. This mantel is on the other end of the room. This was before we redone the walls. I'm thinking vintage tiles under the mantel, not sure yet.

I wouldn't re-use the white shutters, I think wood blinds would be a better choice.

We had those same shutters on our dining room windows when we moved in and we removed them altogether. They are huge dust collectors.

I'd not re use the shutters. Especially not in white. I'd keep the wood trim, I'd even question how much light control is needed and just use pretty panels or even shades you can adjust.

The view is beautiful .....and privacy hardly seems the issue?

Sorry no wood blinds to start they will never match the quality of the wood you have and I still think solar shades will do the same jib but allow you to keep the view . I happen to think Healing Aloe from BM is a fabulouse choice with wood I often cut it 50% to just get that hint of color not white but really nice , Waht an awesome job you have done so far and what an beautiful home so treat it to keeping that view please .

If it were my home I would keep the wood trim. Creamy whites and soft greens are great choices with your wood tones.

What colors have you already used in the other parts of the house? What white did you use on trim, what colors on the walls.

When you walk from one room to the next you want the colors to relate to each other.

BM Healing Aloe and Quiet Moments are both beautiful, soft colors worth adding to your list of colors. I used Quiet Moments in an historic house and it was gorgeous.

You've received a lot of help/advice from experts and very knowledgeable non-pro designated Houzz users (although, I suspect some of those are actually pros - but don't have a pro account + some are just naturally talented people) - I just wanted to say - "WOW!" You've done a lot of work on this home!

I absolutely LOVE all of those porches/balconies - I just want to add one wrap around porch on the lower level of my home! This home will be just stunning once you've finished it!

Have you considered wallpaper? I can picture a wide-spaced stripe, tone on tone of warm whites. Or something Victoriana, but not of the super busy kind.

I have not considered the stripe wallpaper joots07. I am sure that would be beautiful too. I don't have any wallpaper in the house. I could see that in that room. Thank you dani_m08. Iso appreciate all of the advice! My husband sanded on the wood trim today trying to get the white paint off. Since reading him all of these comments he had agreed not to put the vintage shutters back!!! We are going to look at hardwood floor and I'm going to get a sample of Quiet moments and Healing Aloe and see what those colors look like. I can't remember all of the colors I have chosen for the other rooms but they all look so good looking from one room to another. If course most of those rooms have white trim so they were easy for me. The foyer around the stairs is alabaster. This room is off away from anything so I can basically do whatever will look good. I have so many thoughts going thru my head now! Most all of these rooms are large rooms so by the time you get to the next room you have forgotten what color you just saw, lol. The colors I have used in all of the rooms have been all soft colors, mindful grey in one room that is now a sitting room but will become another bedroom, October mist is in another bedroom with the wood furniture, nibela Azul, soft soothing blue, comfort grey but definitely doesn't look grey at all in the living room, alabaster in the foyer and I can't remember in the room with the Hoosier furniture. One bedroom is BM Collectors item. Two more rooms that we haven't touched yet are shiplap. I am so grateful for all of this help! Thank you, I will post more as I get it done so you all can see.

BM also has Historic Colors. They can be used as a suggestion (i.e. you can tone them down by 50-70% if you want paler versions.). Sometimes ideas like those make you more aware of what you really want.

Samples of colors can be gotten free from Sherwin Williams (or I think so….)

I think you’re doing a great job. If you buy an historic home, you gotta love it fiercely because it can be more challenging than a newer house. But the reward is exponential!

Thank you Redyder for your comments. I just ordered several samples from samplizer, I should get them today. Yes this house has been quite the challenge and we asked each other especially in the beginning ARE WE CRAZY! But my husband is so good! And I love to decorate and remake furniture! So I think we are a pretty good team. We don't alway see eye to eye but we work through them. I didn't want the shutters because I didn't like the white shutters with the wood but he wanted them because they were original to the house. He has listened to the advice and said ok. 😊 Many of the family members have come to see the house to see what we have done so far and are so amazed at how she has turned out. Her name is Cherry Hill, named by the man who built it in 1903. I have so much history on this 68 acres, the family and this house and it's so much fun! There are Views from every window and every porch! The views are quite breathtaking with the mountains! We had several of the trees taken out bc we have cattle and it opened up this view! Sometimes all you can say is wow.

Yes WOW! It’s so refreshing to see a young couple loving being caretakers of an old house, rather than knocking it down or removing all the walls to make it an “open concept.” Kudos to you and your husband! Keep us posted on your progress!!

Sounds like you have a direction, I too interested in where you will go with it. I was gonna say, painted wood doesnt HAVE to be white - often in a historic house a color or neutral is the better choice more in sync with the original design intent. if the paint was over shellac then its possible to remove it (take them somewhere to be dipped) but if it was over bare wood, then its a lost cause, paint too embedded in pores and joints. In any event it's always a good idea to store original house parts in attic or somewhere if you have room - if not you, someone in the future may want to come back to the project or repurpose it for something else - and will thank you for it!

I’m so glad your husband is seeing another point of view. And thank you for loving an old house. It takes a lot of patience to update one. And thanks for sharing it with us.

Let us see the Samplize when they come!

Hands down! S W White Duck for the walls

It will work with all the different natural lights coming into the room.

Gorgeous!

I wouldn't put anything on the windows. Looks like privacy is not a concern.

Rug/fabrics for color.

I just had another thought on gray. If you want gray walls, you might choose a dark gray with your natural stained wood trim. It's a very dramatic look.

Greenish gray:

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Dark blue, but gives the same effect:

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Not exactly your room's configuration, but it's representative of dark gray and wood:

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Here are the colors

Swiss Coffee

Healing Aloe left and quiet moments on the right

Sailcloth and simply white

Whatever is in the third photo on the left, Sailcloth?

Yes Diana, third left is sailcloth. That was my first pick but I also like the swiss coffee, I'm just watching the light on that one too see if either of them look pink undertones.

We had to put new windows in the room. This took a little time to get them ordered and installed. But we got them in. We polished up the wainscoting and trims and painted it sailcloth and I love it. We are almost finished installing the Brazilian cherry wood floors. I can't wait to get this finished....I will send some pictures soon!

Would love to see it!

Looking forward to the reveal.

Are you staining the floors dark red that is typical for Brazilian Cherry? That would make a difference in your paint color choices.