Post by stephm0188 on Jan 11, 2013 11:57:13 GMT -5
Whaaaat?! I will be the first to say that I adore white trim. I'm not a fan of wood.
But for the love of all things sacred in the D&R world, you do not paint that kind of wood. It's real, it's historical, and it is gorgeous.
If you want an open concept and white trim and blah blah blah, you buy a house in the suburbs that offers that sort of thing, or you build. You do not destroy a beautiful home that should have been preserved. That's just wrong.
auntie, I think it's just a matter of time until that becomes the before picture. In 20 years that will be on someone's blog as they go about restoring the house. People will be looking at it the way we look in horror at 80s wallpaper.
auntie, I think it's just a matter of time until that becomes the before picture. In 20 years that will be on someone's blog as they go about restoring the house. People will be looking at it the way we look in horror at 80s wallpaper.
For realz. Somehow I think in the future the blogging era will be thought of by a future generation as "undoing all the crappy projects people did to their houses back in the 2010's for the sake of a dumb blog or because they worshipped some dumb blog".
Post by hbomdiggity on Jan 11, 2013 18:44:29 GMT -5
I blame the wallpaper.
The first pic is lovely. Then i take she picked out the wallpaper. Why, I do not know because its awful. And it looked awful with the natural trim. So painting the trim was the only way to make it look better.
I do not like the wallpaper. I think the very first photo looks better than the other two. I also think that the wood trim and wall paper do not look good together.
I was going to say that I prefer the painted trim and don't like the original, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's just the wallpaper that I don't like and feel it clashed more with the wood trim. She probably should have considered changing the wallpaper instead of the trim.
Post by texassmith on Jan 12, 2013 14:23:28 GMT -5
I think the wallpaper is the problem. I think the white trim would look nice with the original paint color on the walls. Although it's still a shame to paint that trim at all (and I tend to like painted trim better, but not when it ruins a historic home).
Damn, what a shame. As others have said, it's a sin to paint trim like that.
I'd bet good money she also just decreased the value of the house by doing that. Removing that paint for someone in the future is going to be a total nightmare.
ETA: It may have been said, but I consider this a design rule. You don't paint wood trim in a historical home. If you don't like it, don't buy it. They've done this on Love it or List it and it always makes me cringe.
Exactly. Paint all the trim you want in typical houses from say...the 50's on up. But you paint trim in a house that has a defined style that hinges on the woodwork? You are dead to me.
her trim was quite nice before she painted it, but being more of a fan of painted trim, it doesn't break my heart (even if it doesn't hold true for the classic chicago burbs).