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I'm having the sliding glass door in my bedroom replaced when I get the studio windows. It's single-paned aluminum, the most poorly insulated part of the house and an eyesore to boot. Replacing the slider is a no-brainer -- I should have had it done when I paid for the front windows.
Unfortunately it brings up the problem of trim.
My house has mix-matched interior trim styles. Not just mix-matched from room to room, but within the rooms. I haven't helped this situation any, because I had windows replaced almost as soon as I moved in, well before I had any kind of vision or plan. I can't just pick something that matches the rest of the house.
If I knew what paint colors I wanted in the bedroom that would help, but Erik and I haven't come up with a paint scheme we agree on in three years of me owning the house (No, technically he doesn't need a say in it, but I'd rather not have my bedroom be a place he hates to be... :P). It's a sliding door, so any mismatch with baseboards will be incredibly obvious; I need to have it trimmed in a way I'll want to continue throughout the room.
Of course, thinking about it makes me question the trim I had put on the other windows, too. ARGH.
In the rented bedrooms (oak floor, crap mahogany trim and doors) I paid for paint-grade poplar, intending to paint it (because hey, renters! Low-upkeep is good). When it was installed I thought it was pretty, though, and I put a ridiculous amount of time into staining one of them instead. I haven't finished the second one at all, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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The living and dining rooms open onto each other and have four different trims between them. Off-white molded MDF crap around the baseboards, blockish butt-jointed off-white wood around the slider, ancient beaten up mahogany around the door, and newer not-yet-stained mahogany around the window. It's a mess. I chose the not-yet-stained mahogany to match the mantle and tie in with the wood door (it's fir, and it's freakin' gorgeous) but the trim on every other wall is painted fiber board. The wood-on-white looks beautiful next to the green wall... but the green wall has off-white fiber-board trim.
The dining room's no help -- I want to paint it a very bright color that will really only work with white trim, which pretty much necessitates white trim in the living room, that would then leave the window frame not matching the baseboards, which I'm pretty sure is some kind of design sin. So I probably should have paid less and painted the trim.
What was I thiiiiinking?!
The only thing I know for sure is that I want to replace the fiber-board junk with wood (painted or otherwise) because you really should be able to bump your trim without denting it.
TL;DR: My house has an identity crisis, I can't make decisions, and fiber-board sucks.
Unfortunately it brings up the problem of trim.
My house has mix-matched interior trim styles. Not just mix-matched from room to room, but within the rooms. I haven't helped this situation any, because I had windows replaced almost as soon as I moved in, well before I had any kind of vision or plan. I can't just pick something that matches the rest of the house.
If I knew what paint colors I wanted in the bedroom that would help, but Erik and I haven't come up with a paint scheme we agree on in three years of me owning the house (No, technically he doesn't need a say in it, but I'd rather not have my bedroom be a place he hates to be... :P). It's a sliding door, so any mismatch with baseboards will be incredibly obvious; I need to have it trimmed in a way I'll want to continue throughout the room.
Of course, thinking about it makes me question the trim I had put on the other windows, too. ARGH.
In the rented bedrooms (oak floor, crap mahogany trim and doors) I paid for paint-grade poplar, intending to paint it (because hey, renters! Low-upkeep is good). When it was installed I thought it was pretty, though, and I put a ridiculous amount of time into staining one of them instead. I haven't finished the second one at all, because
madalchemist is busy living in that room. The living and dining rooms open onto each other and have four different trims between them. Off-white molded MDF crap around the baseboards, blockish butt-jointed off-white wood around the slider, ancient beaten up mahogany around the door, and newer not-yet-stained mahogany around the window. It's a mess. I chose the not-yet-stained mahogany to match the mantle and tie in with the wood door (it's fir, and it's freakin' gorgeous) but the trim on every other wall is painted fiber board. The wood-on-white looks beautiful next to the green wall... but the green wall has off-white fiber-board trim.
The dining room's no help -- I want to paint it a very bright color that will really only work with white trim, which pretty much necessitates white trim in the living room, that would then leave the window frame not matching the baseboards, which I'm pretty sure is some kind of design sin. So I probably should have paid less and painted the trim.
What was I thiiiiinking?!
The only thing I know for sure is that I want to replace the fiber-board junk with wood (painted or otherwise) because you really should be able to bump your trim without denting it.
TL;DR: My house has an identity crisis, I can't make decisions, and fiber-board sucks.
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Date: 2012-08-02 01:15 pm (UTC)From:Good idea with the staining and finishing the window and replacing with the same profile.
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Date: 2012-08-02 02:46 pm (UTC)From:So, hopefully having the same profile will make it work even if some is painted, some wood. We can hope!
We can also hope I remember making these decisions now, since I probably won't replace the living room trim in the next year. :P
EDIT: Oh, and I am NOT in love with that white, I just don't hate it enough to be motivated to choose a new color. The wall to the right is moss green and beautiful, so I'd probably just be looking at different whites.