Our house is a 1930 brick tudor with original very dark stained cherry wood trim throughout the main living areas living room dinning room on the main floor.
White cabinets with dark wood trim.
Wood trim around windows and doors is stained same as logs.
We have two big stained beams in ceiling.
We have a very open floor plan our family living room is open to the kitchen.
We re also debating if it s ok to have white cabinets in the kitchen with dark wood trim dark wood built ins in the lving room or vice versa dark cabinets in the kitchen and white trim and white built ins in the living room.
However you don t want to go overboard with contrast either.
If you do then white cabinets are probably a no go but it can depend on the countertop backsplash you choose.
The kitchen and the bedrooms have painted trim it s currently a cream but i m planning to change it to a more crisp white.
It is slightly easier to pull off an off white cream kitchen with wood trim but a white kitchen might not make sense on the large scale.
If you have dark wood for trim.
In this kitchen to the right we left the trim stained and painted the cabinets white.
The huge island is sw.
While this blog post refers to the wood trims of the 70s 80s the colour ideas are also fab for older homes with dark trim work.
Can we do white cabinets or other painted color with stained wood windows and doors.
Instead of white trim try black or even a dark stained trim for a prairie style aesthetic.
Had the trim been darker we probably would have went with more of a cream color for the cabinets.
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With a focus on updating the oaks and maples of the 90s it s easy to bypass the dark wood trims and doors of the 70s and.
For walls i ve narrowed it down to bm gentle cream or bm navajo white though reads very close to white down maybe too close.
Antique white kitchen cabinets.
Our log house is medium to dark stained logs kitchen walls are either stained log or sheet rock and there s one natrual brick wall.
If you don t have windows in the kitchen this isn t as much of a problem.
Furthermore white cabinets are also less forgiving with cheap wood and finishes.
The most white specific wear you can get is a gradual yellowing of the wood with age which can create color inconsistencies between panels.
Either way it s still enough of a contrast to look intentional.
And for ceiling i m thinking white down less 50.