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Will I regret colored trim?

5 years ago

I‘m doing some preliminary research on paint colors for a neutral whole house paint scheme for pur new build. I absolutely LOVE this look with in the first picture with accessible beige trim and doors. How do you all feel about it? Is it best/safest to stick with good ole timeless white? All white trim and doors seems so ”builder grade” to me. If I stick with white trim I’m struggling with how deeper painted cabinets fit in. I’d love to have white walls in the master bath with accessible beige cabinets like the second picture. Is it weird to have white trim but a different color cabinet? The colors i’m looking at combining are SW Pure white, Aesthetic White, and Accessible Beige - then I’d love some SW peppercorn shelves or the kitchen island to be peppercorn. Any advice on the best way to combine these colors? My one pop of color will probably be Acacia Haze in the powder room.



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  • PRO
    5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    Unless your photo says the combo is the Accissible Beige, that color would not have been my guess. See the image below.


    Even the SW Paints computer doesn't guess Accessible Beige as the trim color.




  • 5 years ago

    Is it necessary to decide all this right now? After living in more than 12 houses or apartments over my life, I think it is best to wait until you can walk through your house and see which rooms get sun at what hours of the day and how much sun . Do you have furniture and rugs and drapes? It is best to choose these elements first before paint colors. There are so many choices of paint colors while choices for upholstery and rugs in your style and price range are limited.

    If you need to make the paint choice to doors and moldings I would choose a neutral true white so that you will not be limited in your other color choices.

  • 5 years ago

    Colored trim ties you to a much smaller range of wall colors to choose from if you ever want to paint them a different color. I would flip the color scheme and paint the walls a color like accessible beige and leave the trim white. Re-painting an entire house or floor of trim would be tedious. But if you have money to burn on painters, then go for it.

  • 5 years ago

    If colored trim, is what you want, then, thats what you should have. If you want to change it someday, it can always be repainted. I am a bit tired of looking at all the white trim, everywhere too.

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    It is always best to choose paint color last, when composing a design aesthetic. When that is not possible, then it is OK to mix whites as long as they go well together. White trim and different cabinets is fine. Also having the trim and door the same paint color is fine. It really comes down to your personal taste and style.

  • 5 years ago

    I have had revere pewter on my trim for years. I actually changed the wall color and still kept it. A good light neutral can take the place of white.

    Em thanked houssaon
  • 5 years ago

    I like your first picture with the beige door and beige trim with white walls❣️

    Em thanked kculbers
  • 5 years ago

    @Sorell Interiors, thank you! We will pick counters/flooring before deciding on paint, but not other elements like drapes, furniture, etc. We have 2 young kids so we'll be keeping what we have until they're past the toddler years, then replace evvvverything! I'm glad to hear I could do cabinets different than the trim, and even doors it sounds like - I'd love some accents of warm colors somewhere but know trim would be a huge expense to repaint. Maybe best to keep that white and add contrast with cabinets and doors.

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    @threers definitely not necessary to decide now, but everything else is in an architects hands right now so I need something to think about, right? Haha I'd at least like to have a fairly narrowed down list of similar colors picked ahead of time, while having some flexibility to choose similar colors with different undertones once we start looking at more of our fixed items like countertops and flooring. Once we get to framing (we are a loooooong way away, so I'm def. premature) I'll get the peel and stick samples of our narrowed down lists to take in the house.

  • 5 years ago

    @cat_ky all I can think about is how dirty the trim is in our current house (we built years ago with a spec builder), still from construction dirt - this nasty red clay that is impossible to get off. Surely the deeper color would look better since mine is basically a nice shade of muddy off white now ;)

  • 5 years ago

    @BeverlyFLADeziner the instagram does say it's accessible beige, but I did see a comment noting one of the pictures was lightened with a filter - the trouble with social media!!