Trim color and painted walls

coasterqueen wrote: Anyone have oak stained or any color but white trim in their house w/colored walls? If so would you mind sharing a few pics with me as to what it looks like? It seems like everyone on the planet has white trim and colored walls. I have oak trim and white walls. Dh prefers no color. We painted Kylie's room pink back in August/September and I still can't stand the look of it. I'm getting the itch to paint color in another room in my house, but I'm afraid I'm not liking colored walls because of the color of trim. So before I add more color I thought it would help to visualize what other colors look like with stained trim. I finally broke Dh down enough to where last night he said he gives up, he'll let me color the whole house if I want to, he'll retreat to the basement if he wants to be surrounded by white walls.

Anyone willing to help me?

booey2 replied: Sorry Karen but every trim in our house is white, DH prefers it that way.

coasterqueen replied:
Yeah, I like white too, but DH didn't want to have to paint it every so many years and stained trim seems to show less dirt.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: Karen I'm not really sure what your furniture looks like or what your style is, but I would go with a chamois color or something with a more yellowish tint. Since you aren't used to color this would be subtle and yet it would contrast well with the oak trim (I've actually seen it and it looks nice, but not too bright) I would go for something with little shine (like a satin or eggshell).

The best thing to do is pick up some paint samples the next time you are at home depot or lowe's. Be sure and get a lot in lots of different shades b/c once you get it home you never know what it will look like.

HTH

ETA: Are your walls hospital white? If you add just a touch of an off white, cream or really light taupe it would look great, too. Anything is better than white, IMO. But, I can see how your DH would fear color so I'm not dogging him. Scotty likes white, too. It doesn't take much color or bold colors to make a room pop.

Boo&BugsMom replied: We have dark red mahagony (sp?) in the downstairs and upstairs in the bedrooms and bath it is white. Up against the dark mahogany in the dining room I have two burgundy colored accent walls. Believe it or not, that is the room I get the most compliments on. I love color. I can't stand white walls. The closest color I have to white is a muslin color. I also have a dark taupe in the living room with the dark red trim. I don't have pics right now...I think I deleted them, but I think color against any trim looks nice.

ETA: if you look in some of my sigi pics, you can see some of the walls.

coasterqueen replied: I actually know what colors I want. I want a very light taupe color for the livingroom. My livingroom furniture is a dark brown tweed color with a hint of burgundy/hunter green. My curtains are burgundy, but I want to go with a darker taupe.

In my bedroom I have this perfect sky blue (or some shade of blue) that DH's cousin has in his foyer that I WANT badly for in there and then I have navy curtains and a navy bedspread. I have the lighthouse/nautical/ocean theme in that room.

My kitchen I want to leave white (well it's eggshell) along with the foyer/hallway.

Again, it's not what color to go with, I'm worried that my problem is that I don't like colored walls with stained trim. I LOVE colored walls when I see it in other people's homes but they have white trim. I didn't like Kylie's room color with stained trim. I'm thinking I might have liked it with white. So I don't want to start painting another room if I won't like it because we have stained trim, kwim?

I do also hate that colored walls close a room in more. Kylie's room looks so much more dark and small, but it's what she wants. If my livingroom feels that way I'm definitely going back to eggshell. I like that open-ness feeling a lot more than having colored walls.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: Oh I see...well, I think you'll just have to paint it to see, but I think if you have the right shade it will look very nice. I happen to love oak trim. We have it in our kitchen, but we have wallpaper in there (which I also hate)

gr33n3y3z replied: We have oak trim and oak window frames with white walls

coasterqueen replied:
Yeah, I love oak trim too and it's nice not seeing the dirt . I guess I'm just going to have to paint my bedroom first since it's a smaller room than the livingroom and go from there.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Karen, burgundy browns and greens go very well together. My bedroom burtains are burgundy, my bedspread set is taupe. We do have a comforter that mixes all those colors... you can see it in this pic I took today.,..

Hillbilly Housewife replied: And I just suggested the colors for my inlaws cottage, which they took to heart. They have oak everything in there...and I suggested blues and taupes. It's sky blue, and a darker blue... the floors are oak, as well as the kitchen cabs and the fireplace we bought them. It's a great combination, I think that the light blue and oak trim will be wonderfull together!

coasterqueen replied:
Cool! I plan to tackle this project if not before Christmas, the week between Christmas and New Years when I'm off work.

mom21kid2dogs replied: We don't have oak, just 100+yr old white pine. I stripped every ounce of it in the first 5 years of living here so painting it is out of the question.

Here's O's room. There's some woodwork visable under the windows. Ignore the color scheme. I know it's too wild for what you have in mind!

mom21kid2dogs replied: Another view

mom21kid2dogs replied: I found a pic in our family room. Carpeted (which I loathe but DH insists) but beige walls and wood trim.

C&K*s Mommie replied: Karen, this is a pic of our once brown baseboard against the painted walls in the LR- nevermind the mess we were getting ready to leave that day . Up to this point I had been planning to take the baseboards off the walls (hence the white base coat paint on the brown). I eventually did take it down in the LR.

ediep replied: Jason has oak trim in his room and the walls are blue and blue/white stripe wallpaper (yankee pinstripes )

It looks great! I think Oak trim is very classy looking and would look great with any color, especially neutrals because it would add a very classy look to the room.

We redid all the trim in our house this year and replaced the builder quality tiny moulding with large 5-inch and crown and new door mouldings, and although it isn't oak, its white, it adds so much to the rooms. It looks so much better.

Anyway, here is a pic of Jasons room

ediep replied: another

jcc64 replied: In general, Karen, you're always going to do better with warmer, earthy tones or neutrals if you want to keep the trim natural or wood stained. Sage greens work, so do warmer yellows or golds, and the old stand by neutral tones like oatmeal, antique white, beiges, etc. I can see how the pink would not have worked out well. I'm a big fan of white trim myself, though I never use a true white white. I really only like wood colored trim if the wood is really extraordinary in some way. If it's just standard issue contractor grade trim, I always attack it with paint.
I have two rooms in my house with wood trim- one is sage green, the other is color washed butter yellow. When the battery recharges in my camera, I'll post a pic.