Painting architraves and internal doors

5 years ago

Help needed!! We bought our house 2 years ago and have been decorating each room in its turn. Having finished the last room the colour scheme that flows through the house is light ocean colours, cream, duck egg, taupe and greys. The house has two main floor covering throughout, natural oak solid wood floor and a natural stone carpet. Before we moved in the wooden floor was stained walnut but we had it sanded and waxed. My problem now is that in the kitchen and living room where the wood floor is the skirting is walnut like the floor once was. All the architrave and skirting in the rest of the house is black.
I am happy to paint all skirting black to match throughout but I would like suggestions on what to do with the internal doors, window frames and sills. At the minutes the doors are a redish mahogany colour. The window frames and sills are teak. It's just all too many different colours of wood.
I was thinking along with the black architrave and skirting to paint the doors dove grey/slate grey/black and the windows and sills one of the greys but not black.
Any opinion much appreciated.

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Jonathan

5 years ago

I am surprised you haven’t mentioned white as an option. Since the colour palate you have introduced is all light it seems like if you are going to paint out the mismatched wood then black seems counterintuitive

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T Gray
5 years ago
Pics would be helpful to get a real sense of the differences.

As per Jonathans comment above I was fascinated by the choice of black so am looking forward to seeing them.
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Did you do this? I am considering the same now for my hallway!
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Yes architrave and skirting works well in the wall colour. Makes the ceiling higher and you don’t have the contrast with white skirting boards which can make a room feel smaller too. Or your original suggestion could work, I just wasn’t keen on the actual colours personally but I’m not great with colour 😂
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Juliet Docherty
5 years ago
I think you need to post photos, it's a bit tricky trying otherwise.
Sonia
5 years ago
Nothing looks as fresh as white.
CSLC Cam
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5 years ago

floor, skirting, architrave, door, window frame and sill all different colours.
CSLC Cam
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5 years ago

view from other side of the room showing the other floor covering
T Gray
5 years ago
Your ceilings seem quite high. Are those doors original? In my view the problem is with the door and the colour. Everything else looks great. However I have a feeling if you paint those doors, they may just look like a fire exit. Can you replace them with something more architectural and paint those? Tying that colour in on the sill could work. Perhaps the window in white though.
E D
5 years ago
I have similar (fire)doors in my flat and painted one of them white. Not a great look. T Gray's association with a fire exit comes close. :)

I can't quite make out whether I like the look in combination with the black posts etc.or not.

It looks good in the close up, with quite a retro feel to it, but perhaps within the context of the the house they may well be a bit of an eyesore.

In that case, yes replace them.
CSLC Cam
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5 years ago
Thanks for the input. The ceiling is double height in one room. we've decided to go all architraves skirting and doors black. There's 8 doors downstairs so replacing at the moment isn't an option. I'm going to look into new handles avoid looking industrial. Once that is done I'll revisit the window

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