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Painting trim white, need help with staircase

Lori Myers-Heffernan

9 years ago

Purchased a 1993 home with too much honey colored wood! Planning to paint trims and moldings white. Staircase is the issue, it's exposed to living room. Thought about leaving railing honey, painting spindles white, but how do I work the trim from living room wall into this?

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ldilegge
9 years ago
You can just paint the side of the staircase trim that faces the living room. Keep the base that the spindles are on in wood. Paint the area of trim around opening that faces living room. Hope I made myself clear.
njmomma
9 years ago
Idilegge is so right. Just paint the trim facing the living room.
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ma2 architects
9 years ago
Just some food (dust) for thought: white trim shows a tremendous amount of dirt. It looks great at first but all that dust builds up and eventually you won't be able to get the dirt out of the corners. I have white trim, so I know from experience.

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