Painting trim

[bucketmouth64]

I am thinking of doing some painting and I see in most of the color charts recommendations on trim colors. I know it is a personal preference, but I was wondering if any of you paint over your door and baseboard trim? Have you painted over your door frame and window casements? Do you like the results or would you like to keep the stained wood look?

[Bobby Bass]

Your call, but I am strongly against painting over any stained wood trim and doors. I think once you have painted a stained surface you have ruined it. I have replaced many a door and trim for customers who want that natural and warm look that real wood gives. Having real woodwork in a house is an added re sale value. Of course having spent time replacing, staining and finishing trim and doors I also hate to see my time and effort covered with a layer of paint. [i'll get off my peach crate now] You can paint it, people do it all the time

[kaz2611]

yes very much a personal preference myself i prefer stained over painted. i remodeled a house for a family i installed all new oak trim and they had it painted i almost choked if they had intended on painting it why not use a cheaper trim but after it was done it looked beautiful. If you have recently painted the walls maybe you want to paint the trim for an accent to the room. It just boils down to what you prefer or think would look the best.

[fishinchicks]

Our house is a little over 100 years old. The original trim was painted white, and I am in the process of replacing all the "new" trim with the wide baseboard to match it. We use pine 1x6 for the baseboard, with a decorative piece on top to mimic the original. For us, the stained trim that my inlaws put in in 1976 just didn't look right.

[LwnmwnMan2]

We've got stained trim in our house, and also the rental next door.

However, we're going to redo the foyer in our house, with wainscot, with raised panels, and the trim is painted to match.

Our house is going on 30 years old now, so the trim in the foyer IS starting to get a little beat up, and I realize that if we want to go back, that we'll have to put new trim up.

However, we're in the process of switching everything over to a lighter oak color, rather than the darker walnuts that were popular in the 70's, so it's something of a no brainer for us to just do this in the foyer for now, at least save on the time and effort of changing this trim.

Here's a link to what we're doing. The ones with the raised panels, not just the normal "slotted" wainscot.

http://www.decomoldings.com/index.html

[JohnMickish]

When we painted out bedroom (a deep cocoa brown) I put up crown molding (in white) and also painted the baseboard trim and window trim in the same white. Man does this ever "pop". I have recieved many, many compliments on it but I dont think I will ever paint window trim agian. The wife wanted it painted right to the glass. What a pain in the +++, but it looks great.

[scaup]

We just got done painting all of the trim on the main level. Both my wife and I decided never again. It looks very nice but neither of us like it as much as clear coated oak or maple. When you start to add up the what you spend on paint and supplies and factor in the pain in the neck factor it just was not worth it for me. Next time we will replace the trim room by room and clear coat it. If you are not able to do the trim work yourself it may change your outlook a bit though.