We are painting out our trim to match wall color on our baseboards. Question: When you do this, do most people also paint out the door trim, or just let the door trim match the door paint? We want a clean modern look and want the floors to just hit the wall with no trim color to line out the room. Common practice? Ideas?
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I use satin paint for walls and semi-gloss for doors, trim, woodwork.
I like off white for the walls and bright white for the woodwork, base, trim. etc
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We did that in another project, but are wondering about the baseboard vs door/trim conundrum. Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities- Voltaire
I've seen it done both ways: casing matches the doors or casing matches the baseboard. Painting the baseboard to match the walls does tend to make the baseboard "merge" with the wall, especially if the baseboard is small.
Since the doors will never "merge" with the walls in the same way, I would paint the casing to match the doors. I think this makes for fewer visual transitions.
-Don
We have a red room, green room, yellow room etc all the trim and base matches the doors (white). In our area that is considered "modern" or "trendy" for this style of home.
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Indeed, we want modern. I think door and door trim the same and baseboard to match the walls makes "blocks" of color, instead of brick-a-brack lines everywhere. We are using small 2 1/2 trim all the way around. This keeps it minimal. The only change was on the large 6-8 slider, we went 3 1/2 to keep the scale looking the same.Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities- Voltaire
I second doncando's opinion.....
Since the doors will never "merge" with the walls in the same way, I would paint the casing to match the doors. I think this makes for fewer visual transitions.
Also, you really want to use a semi or high gloss on doors and door casings so as to be able to clean them. You can do the base the same color as the wall, and use flat or eggshell or whatever since the base does not get a lot of hand traffic. Watch out for areas you might "wet mop" though, gets yucky after a while.
Quite often we use a scrub-able flat or eggshell on the walls, then add a touch more luster (satin, semi gloss) to the woodwork in the same color.
The eye will pickup a slight hue "change" on the woodwork because of the inherent reflectivity, but my clients like the effect.
Nice idea on that. The painter gets to faint at the number of colors and finishes in the end!Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities- Voltaire