Painted Interior Doors And Trim
Therefore when choosing whether to paint your interior doors to match the trim contrast with the trim or stand out in a vibrant color that is different from every other color in the room the decision is yours.
Painted interior doors and trim. Place the door flat on the sawhorses. Painting your home s interior trim or molding can dramatically change the look and feel of a room. Brittany at pretty handy girl painted the inside of her front door in a vibrant yellow that livens up her foyer.
Choose an interior door paint color. Use a brush or roller making sure with each stroke that the fresh paint you are overlapping is still wet. Black doors and white trim for space with black and white colors domination.
Some of my favorite whites for trimwork and doors are benjamin moore s cloud white and dove white in either semi gloss or satin. When your space is dominated. I ve found that trim such as baseboards and molding around doors usually just need to be brushed anyway and not rolled.
You should do what is most aesthetically pleasing to you. Trim paint usually comes pre tinted in bright white and in base colors that can be custom tinted. In the paint s specifications companies may say that the paint is suitable for trim cabinets doors furniture and windows.
Fingerprints and grime are to be expected on interior doors in high traffic areas. Start with area a using an angled brush to paint all recessed areas. Anytime you re painting something a general rule of thumb is to brush all the places that need to be painted with the paintbrush first rather than rolling first.
So pick paint with a gloss or semi gloss finish rather than flat or eggshell for a surface that s much easier to. To remove the door wedge a flathead screwdriver or chisel in the joint between the hinge and the top of the hinge pins. When painting a paneled door begin with the recessed panels then the horizontal rails and.