Do you know the paint color name and number that was used on the trim?

You can't imagine who great it will all appear if you paint the trim white. It will update the whole home and make it look brand new. It will complement your tile floor so much better than the current trim color.

Time to 86 those too short tied back drapes in the living room.

Select a 9x12 or a 10x14 rug for your living room area.

The painters can spray the trim before they paint the walls and that should save time.

Time to bite the bullet and paint the trim. It really is very cream and I’m guessing you may not want to paint all your walls a matching cream! The only way you would get that trim to appear lighter would be to paint your walls darker.

On closer inspection on my screen the trim and doors look quite yellow. You will love this once it’s painted white!

Paint the trim IMO that trim color should not be the driving force to choose wall color .

I don't think you could beat this for all your rooms so your eclectic furnishings will be the stars. Believed to be Navajo White walls and White Dove trim.

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I'll take better closeup photos to examine if trim is more cream or yellow but the last photo of the trim in the pool room is more representative. If I bite the bullet and convert to white it'll be a big $$$$$ bullet, all 3 floors, windows, trims, doors, etc. Will definitely be easier to pickout a gray to go with white, but sometimes white trim comes across harsh. I've seen some be successful with cream trim with gray walls. My current kitchen I made mistake of using a cool gray, hence looks blue and brings out the trim more. I think it has to be a warmer gray and not sure if lighter/darker gray works better with cream/yellow trim.

Sadly, yes - trim should be changed. That is an unfortunate dilemma.

Eva, on your other thread, you winced at the price of painting your kitchen cabinets, 2nd kitchen cabinets, and other cabinets in the house, and stated that perhaps changing granite and floors isn't in your budget.

Interior paint (walls/trim) often give you the most bang for the buck. I have painted my whole, big house by myself (except for the extremely tall living room ceiling--like yours). It is inexpensive and relatively easy to diy.

But hiring out the repainting for the entire house, plus trim? Would you like to share your budget so others can help you make the best choices?

For context, my house is 3 floors, appx 9000sf. My budget for repainting all cabinets is $15K. I had thought about actually replacing entire cabinets themselves and granite countertops but thought what would not be economical. My budget for painting walls and trim is $20K. I don't know if these prices are achievable, especially on the trim part since there is a LOT of trim throughout the house. I could get my husband to take a week off and paint the trim himself LOL but he wouldn't be able to reach any of the open foyer and family room. And it sounds like a lot of work.

I sympathize. Honestly. There’s a couple things that come to mind. 1. Warm colors of early 2000s are dated. Cool colors dominate and appear to be a long term trend. Not updating them could cost you if you resell in the next decade or so. That said, as challenging as it is, you could choose colors carefully to live with them a bit longer. If you change them, do it in stages, and perhaps just hire it out for the public rooms or just the more difficult bits.

1. Stay away from greens and blues, including blue-greys. They will accentuate them.
2. Anything red & orange, including red-browns will add more warmth and further date the room. My advice would be to identify the trim color and stay with shades very close to it to minimize the trim. It will become monotone and forgettable.
3. Other shades that could work would be carefully chosen taupe such as the one up-thread that you posted.
   I think you’re on the right track. Good luck.👍🏻

THANK YOU so much to everyone who has helped me learn so much in the past few days. Today, I was able to get a hold of a SW fan deck. I have a closeup of my trim, which I think Ivoire or Napery comes closest too. I am also leaning towards this brown-gray wall we have in one of our rooms. I'm not sure which SW Paint color our brown-gray wall most closely resembles but I included some SW fans next to our wall (help!). What do you all think of this color combo? (painting trim white in the entire house is cost prohibitive). Also we were thinking of painting the doors the same wall color.

Quick question:

1) Do dark or lighter walls reduce the yellow undertone in the trim better?

2) Does wall paint with more brown than gray or more gray than brown reduce the yellow undertone in the trim better?

I'm always stumped by questions like these. This is your house! Which color would you like the trim to be? The people who had the house before decided on cream. They are not you and you are not them. This is your house, make it your house!

That said pay someone to paint the trim in the color you want. Then pick a wall color that works with your furnishing if you are keeping them. You can always hire the professional painter for the large public areas of your house and then paint the trim yourself in the bedrooms/ bathrooms, more personal spaces if you are concerned about your budget. Not every single room needs to be the exact same color, but you could pick a color palette that will flow through the house.

Choosing a colour from the same Hue Family, but with more Chroma (colourfulness) than the trim, will make the trim appear more neutral by comparison.

See this thread for a similar dilemma, with a happy resolution,,

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5996969/neutral-wall-color-to-pair-with-nacre-trim

The alternative is to paint the trim a more neutral colour, which will work with a far greater range of wall colours.

If you are keeping the trim as is, I would go to with a warm white on the walls, dove white, on the same page with napery on your fan deck. If you absolutely do not want to keep the trim color, wonder if you could change it in stages? One floor at a time perhaps? Think hard before you commit to the trim color. Since u are going thru the effort and cost of painting, I would want to make sure the trim is something you love and that could drive the decision to perhaps painting in stages, to help spread the cost over time?

I don't think that you have to paint the whole house right now. If it is your family room that you want to update...do all the trim and doors that are visible from that area. I hope you don't have an oil based trim color that yellowed over time even more. We had a painter (many moons ago) who insisted on oil based paint...no matter how much I primed over it years later, and used trim paint, within a year that oil paint "ate away" the fresh paint. Finally replaced it all...

The cost to paint trim white for entire house is over $20K. The cost to paint the walls we need is much less. Therefore, what we were thinking is to pick a color for the walls that works better with existing trim color and white trim. If after painting the walls and it still doesn't look good, then we will bite bullet and paint all trim white.

Choose either a brown based gray, or gray based brown for walls.

Our trim color in photo below is in a darker room which is about as yellowish as it gets, in a bright room with sunlight the trim looks much more ivory than yellow.

Choose a cream/yellow for walls

This does not actually look bad.

Eva, you keep asking the same thing over and over again as if you think someone can wave a manic wand to make this work for you! You have a 9k sq. Ft house full of trim that is painted yellow! This will dictate what you paint in EVERY room! Showing a photo of one room painted in sage green that looks ok won’t solve your problem unless you plan on painting your whole house that color! Nor will the photo of the yellow room unless you want 9K sq. ft of yellow! Spending $$$ to paint the house to go with this trim seems like throwing good money after bad but that’s your call. You can paint the walls white and at least the trim will look intentional. If this was just one room then not a big deal but there’s no magic bullet for this!

Lyn, no doubt there is no magic bullet nor one wall color that will work in most rooms with the trim we have. However, we're taking the trim in stages, picking the best wall color that can work at this time. Seeing these photos of cream/ivory trim + gray walls gives us some hope to have a starting point to pick a gray wall color first. If still grossly unacceptable after painting, we'll paint the trim white but at least we will have a gray wall that works with white trim. If we pick a white or yellow wall now, then painting the trim white later may not look good and set us back to square one where instead of trim not looking good, it's the wall not looking good.

Also we'll trying to work with what we have, think outside the box, and not have to conform to trim always being white.

Eva. It is not going to cost you $20K to paint the trim in that house.

If you think that, then maybe you live in Paris, France or something.

I know people who live in 9,000sq ft houses and they certainly don't pay $20K to paint the trim in their homes. And I'm in a HCOLA area.

Are you perhaps near San Francisco?

I think you need to get more bids, or you need to watch some diy videos on how to paint trim in homes. You can think about it like this: if it takes a crew of 2 people working 7 hours a day about 1 week to paint the trim, then that's $20K divided by 2 people = $10,000 per worker.

Divide that by 7 days, and it means they're charging you more than $1,400/day EACH.

I just don't think your typical painter in California is making that kind of money. So where are you located where workers make that kind of income?

Supplies for painting are not very costly. Yes, painting well takes skill, but I can do it (and do it well), simply by reading diy blogs and speaking to paint experts in Sherwin-Williams stores.

It's not rocket science.

To me, you can't go wrong with a warm white wall color, it works great with a white trim or the existing trim. Its extremely versatile. I like it better than a grey or yellow with your existing trim.