White door trim with stained wood baseboards?

[zoemay06]

I'm having some trim installed around our closets and it will be white, but the baseboards are stained wood. The trim will go all the way to the floor instead of ending at the top of the baseboard so that it looks more intentional and polished. We'll be installing the same white trim around the windows. Would these bother you if they were in the same room together?

[lolc]

Yes, it would bug me. I would update the baseboards to white. But that's my personal preference anyway.

[Susie]

It isn't exactly the same thing, but our foyer currently has a mix of stained wood trim and white painted trim. There are a bunch of pictures of it here:

guinsyard.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/checking-in-on-the-foyer/

and here:

guinsyard.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/finished-foyer-the-before-after/

I think I mentioned it in at least one of the posts - we don't intend for it to stay that way. The white trim is all new (as of this spring), and the stained trim is original. Eventually we'll paint it all white. But we're also eventually going to replace the laminate foyer floor and the green carpet on the stairs. That's the best time to paint baseboards, so since that's on the eventual horizon we're waiting for that.

It's not awful. It's not something I'd pick, but it's something I'd rather live with in the short term than do the really hard way to get it done now. Having a line and/or a mix somewhere is kind of inevitable when, as we are, you're trying to turn an entire house over from stained trim to white. You (or, I) just can't do it all at once.

[tcsbride]

We were in the same situation...put up so e new molding but had baseboards/chair rail/crown molding that was all stained. Personally, I think the mix doesn't look good. But I don't like stained trim period so take that for what it's with.

I'd grab a gallon of primer and a gallon of trim paint and get started, tw coats of each. It'll look so muc better in the end!

[zoemay06]

Thanks, seeing the pictures helps. Our baseboards are lighter, and they'll be the only trim that isn't white. And there's honestly not many places where the baseboards even show (but the edges of the closet is one of them).

BTW, Sea Salt looks great in your living room! I just painted our MBR the same color and I just love it. Such a calming color and perfect shade.

Jun 13, 2012 22:17:13 GMT -5 Susie said:

It isn't exactly the same thing, but our foyer currently has a mix of stained wood trim and white painted trim. There are a bunch of pictures of it here:

guinsyard.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/checking-in-on-the-foyer/

and here:

guinsyard.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/finished-foyer-the-before-after/

I think I mentioned it in at least one of the posts - we don't intend for it to stay that way. The white trim is all new (as of this spring), and the stained trim is original. Eventually we'll paint it all white. But we're also eventually going to replace the laminate foyer floor and the green carpet on the stairs. That's the best time to paint baseboards, so since that's on the eventual horizon we're waiting for that.

It's not awful. It's not something I'd pick, but it's something I'd rather live with in the short term than do the really hard way to get it done now. Having a line and/or a mix somewhere is kind of inevitable when, as we are, you're trying to turn an entire house over from stained trim to white. You (or, I) just can't do it all at once.

[zoemay06]

We may switch out the baseboards eventually, but I'm really hoping I can live with it for the foreseeable future. This project involved a giant beast of a bookshelf which is now safely anchored to the wall and I'm not in a hurry to move it again.

[FoxInFiji]

I think that will look odd. All of the casing and baseboard should be one color. Mixing the a white door or window with stained trim or vice versa looks OK though. I've seen that done many times. Why can't you just buy new wood trim and stain it to match? Then just use your white closet doors.

[zoemay06]

If we do them to match, I'd prefer to replace the baseboards to match the white trim. I'm not a huge fan of stained wood trim most of the time. I know you guys are right that it should ideally all be the same...but like I said I hope I can live with it since there's so little of the stained wood where it will show.

In addition to the closet doors and other trim, there's a huge bookshelf in one of the rooms (takes up an entire wall) that I painted the same white, and will have white molding added to it so it looks more like a built-in. There's so much of the same white in the room that it just makes more sense to have all the trim white if anything, but like I said I'm hoping not to have to move that dang bookshelf again for many moons. The previous owners added the current baseboards and didn't bother to move it to get to the part behind it, they just chopped it at the edge of the bookshelf. We realized that when we unbolted it and moved it to a different wall for better flow.

Jun 14, 2012 11:39:15 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

I think that will look odd. All of the casing and baseboard should be one color. Mixing the a white door or window with stained trim or vice versa looks OK though. I've seen that done many times. Why can't you just buy new wood trim and stain it to match? Then just use your white closet doors.