Help with Paint Color to Match Wood Trim
Hello, fellow brownstoners! Just bought a beautiful home with many original details (wood moldings, pocket doors, pier mirror). The wood trim is a medium oak color (NOT painted…YAY!) I am in desperate need of paint suggestions for my parlor floor that will bring out the wood and not be too dark or weigh the room…
Hello, fellow brownstoners! Just bought a beautiful home with many original details (wood moldings, pocket doors, pier mirror). The wood trim is a medium oak color (NOT painted…YAY!) I am in desperate need of paint suggestions for my parlor floor that will bring out the wood and not be too dark or weigh the room down. Please help! Pictures much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I’m thinking of some ivory, it match with wood and make the room warmer, also give your room a modern look!
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I think mopar is right about light paint in bright rooms and deeper hues in darker rooms.
I’d favor a warm/taupe-y gray with oak, as a gray pale as the natural light will allow.
this allows the oak to be itself. in my opinion, the OAK is your color, add more color and it’s too much.
check out “color” by donald kauffman, a great, great book about color and interior spaces
Congrats!
I find I prefer lighter colors in the rooms near the windows, and darker colors in the smaller interior rooms. Dark is good for a dining room, for example, and intense can work in a hall. We’re thinking of going with white in some spaces, though, to lighten them up.
Right now we have only plaster walls (after skim coating) and we can actually see the walls for the first time, they were so dark before.
The colors of the time were varied and dusty.
They had everything: ochre, buff, deep cream, gold, turquoise blue, teal, olive, a kind of Kate Spade green, rust, mahogany, plum, brick, terra cotta, creamy yellow, wine, etc. etc.
See the web site of Gavin Young Maloney in the advertisement at right on this site, books on Victorian decoration, and web sites selling historic wallpapers (such as Carter & Co) for examples.
Check Paint Library for Victorian colors and Farrow & Ball for earlier colors. I haven’t tried Paint Library yet, but Farrow & Ball is terrific because their colors look so politely receding and natural, even though most of them are not Victorian. If you don’t like the formulations, you can have the colors matched and made up in a Benjamin Moore base at Janovice. Though I find the real Farrow & Ball is superior.
Whatever you try, test first to get an idea of how it works in your space.
Green and red are complementary and I’ve found that any wood with reddish tones looks great against a green/yellow paint. If you’re willing to consider a pretty saturated, intense color, take a look at Benjamin Moore’s “Dill Pickle” 2147-40.
Earth tones…pumpkins, sage greens, soft browns.
Certain color ranges don’t work at all with white trim but with oak trim, you can look at a whole range of ochre/pumpkin colors. The warmth in a paint plays with the reds in the wood and the wood seems to moderate what might be harsher wwith a white contrast.