Let's Talk Trim

One day, when we re-do the floors (whether it's some or all), I'm going to replace our trim with something thick and substantial, but with a clean and simple profile.  I've started noticing trim in every picture I see.

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If the trim we currently have hadn't been skinny, dated oak that matched our floors in no way whatsoever, I might have kept it as-is because wood trim can look lovely, especially against white walls:

Via Dust Jacket

Via Dust Jacket

For now, painting out the trim was an inexpensive, if somewhat labour-intensive, option to modernize the lakehouse.  Soon I'll post a full how-to, but for now I wanted to talk about why I left the wood on the window frames that open, even if I painted the fixed windows and all casings white.

For reference, here's a glimpse of these three spaces (living room, master bedroom, and bathroom) before:

At first I thought I might want to stain or paint the window frames black, while painting the trim white, but I quickly decided against it because it would break up the views too much.

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Even though I decided early-on to go all-white, by the time I got to the lakehouse to work it was too cold!!  I barely had time to get paint on the door, and I needed a space heater to ensure the paint cured.  I decided to just tape off the areas of the windows that I couldn't paint without removing hardware and opening them, and resolved to tackle them next spring when it's warm enough.  For now, the bulk of the woody-goodness has been axed, and I'm thinking a little strip of wood isn't a crime, even in a space I'm trying to modernize.

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