I love my 1930s bungalow. The living room is the only room with unpainted wood trim (baseboards, picture rail, fireplace, windows). I love wood and I’ve always thought it was sacrilegious to paint it. HOWEVER I feel like there’s just too much of it in our small-ish space. It makes our ceilings feel lower and the room feel darker in the grey PNW winter.
So I want to paint some of it white. BUT I am agonizing on what to leave as-is and what to paint. My current thinking: paint the fireplace, picture rail, and outer window trim white (leave the inner trim like this photo). That would leave the doors, door frames, and baseboards wood.
All of the trim and the doors in the rest of our house have been painted white by previous owners.
Thoughts?! Suggestions?
original posted by garbanzobean_ to r/InteriorDesign on Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:07:11 GMT.