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retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 9, 2008
1:24 PM Post #4379862
| I have knotty pine walls in my dining room and kitchen I would like to leave the walls but would it look okay to
paint my trim white ? I have change the wood work in the rest of the house to white and I love it. I even painted some knotty pine in the living room and love it but I would like to leave the knotty pine in the kitchen
as it is much easier to care for and I really like it even if outdated. Help I need ideas |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 9, 2008
5:19 PM Post #4380802
| Can you post a picture? If there's enough trim that it's sort of a design element in the room, then I could see that it might work to do it white, but if there's just a little bit of trim like a baseboard or something then it looks weird to me when I picture it in my head (but what I'm picturing in my head is the knotty pine kitchen that I had when I lived in Cincinnati which probably looks nothing like your house!) |
heathrjoy
Johnsonburg, PA
(Zone 5a)
January 11, 2008
11:09 AM Post #4387053
| I say yes to painting it white. My Mom had knotty pine in her kitchen...half way up the walls like a wainscoting...the upper half was wallpapered. The chair rail was the same color as the knotty pine, and her cabinets matched. However, all of her trim (baseboards, window frames, etc.) where painted white. I loved it. It looked so fresh, country and inviting. You just wanted to sit down and have a cup of coffee and chat. I say if it makes you happy then do it!
...and about being outdated...haven't we all learned by now that if we keep something long enough it'll come back into style? LOL! I still love the look of knotty pine and I think I always will. :-) |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 15, 2008
9:49 PM Post #4407613
| Knotty pine out of date? Says who? LOL I too love the look of knotty pine. It's not out of style if you still like it!! |
shune
Seattle, WA
(Zone 8a)
January 16, 2008
6:25 PM Post #4411770
| I have a knotty pine living room, all walls and ceiling too. Plus the wall going up the stairs. It's a little dreary sometimes. I don't want to ruin it with paint tho. |
heathrjoy
Johnsonburg, PA
(Zone 5a)
January 18, 2008
8:49 PM Post #4422511
| My DB's and DSIL's livingroom is all done in knotty pine...tongue and groove. The walls, the ceiling and up the stairs also. Their livingroom is HUGE. I can't even guess at the measurements, but I'm pretty sure all the furniture in my house would fit in there, LOL. They also have the knotty pine in their bedroom. Their house looks like a log cabin...inside and out...but it really isn't. Their home is very inviting, whenever I go there I almost feel like I'm on vacation (but usually I'm babysitting!)
So, I say YEAH! for knotty pine too. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 22, 2008
11:17 AM Post #4438095
| I also love the knotty pine but---- I trying to decide about the trims around the windows and doors.
I would like to paint it white but not sure, All my other rooms have white woodwork and the kitchen and dining room are open with only a bar in the middle. In the dining room two walls are
painted, 1 is knotty pine and the 4th side is the bar looking into the kitchen. In the kitchen the 2
side walls are knotty pine 1 side with the bar and the other side is all painted cabinets.Need ideas at this point I feel it is kind of a mixed up mess. With the painted walls and cabinets in
the same rooms what about the trims? |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 22, 2008
11:20 AM Post #4438102
| Any chance you can post a couple pictures? It would really help visualize the situation. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 22, 2008
12:28 PM Post #4438356
| need to get batteries for camera but will try to do that today. I have never posted a picture before
but I think I can do it we will see. Can you tell I was not a computer teacher? |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
10:21 AM Post #4468771
| Well I think I have one picture posted but I don't know how I did it. If I figure it out will put a couple of other views. This is the first time I have done this. sorry |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
10:23 AM Post #4468778
| no I didn,t do it --- I will continue to work on it. |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 29, 2008
10:36 AM Post #4468816
| Down below the box where you type a reply, it says "Browse". Click on that and find where you've stored the picture on your computer. It's pretty easy...if you know where you put the picture. I'll sometimes save a copy to desktop. That makes it easier for me to find. Hope this helps. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
10:39 AM Post #4468826
| I can find the pictures but don't know how to get them to my message |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 29, 2008
10:43 AM Post #4468841
| Click on the browse, then find the picture in the browse box and open it up. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
12:10 PM Post #4469197
| I go to browse find my picture click on it the picture number comes up in the box I hit open and send and nothing happens. I guess this forum may become a computer lesson so sorry |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 29, 2008
12:19 PM Post #4469243
| You have to type something in the box too. It won't just put up a picture, there has to be something else in the box, even it's just a # |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
1:06 PM Post #4469484
| okay, I am trying to send some pictures so you can see what I am working with. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
1:12 PM Post #4469521
| and here is another view 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
1:14 PM Post #4469531
| and then one more Guess what I can now send pictures. Thanks for your help 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 29, 2008
5:29 PM Post #4470427
| YEAH!! You did it! I knew you could ☺
I guess I would be inclined not to paint the woodwork. You said other rooms have the painted woodwork? Is the knotty pine all left natural in those rooms? Or is there knotty pine? Right now, the woodwork is blending in with the rest and I like that. That would just be an opinion though from somebody who's had painted woodwork and didn't care for it. I like the stained real deal woodwork. If anything, I'd warm up the room by painting the walls. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
January 29, 2008
5:37 PM Post #4470466
| These are the only rooms with the knotty pine and the only ones with the natural color trim. I am
getting ready to repaint the walls a sage green and repaint the cabinets 2 shades of sage green.
I plan the put ceramic tile on the backsplash beige and an accent with the sage.so----------- |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 29, 2008
6:17 PM Post #4470635
| Well, I would probably do the rest of the painting and then live with it for awhile and see whether I liked it or would prefer the woodwork painted. When we had painted woodwork, that was the last thing I painted in the room. Sage green and wood look really warm together. I like your color choices! |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 29, 2008
11:21 PM Post #4472070
| If it were my house, I wouldn't paint the trim. If the trim had some really interesting detail to it and you wanted it to stand out then I could see painting it, but your trim looks just like ordinary trim, and I think if you paint it white or some other light color, it's going to really jump out at you, and personally I think it would look better if you left it matching the rest of the wood. But it's your house, so you have to make yourself happy here! Terry's suggestion is good to get all the rest of the painting done first, then decide if you want the trim painted or not. |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
January 30, 2008
2:21 AM Post #4472444
| You'll be sorry if you have white woodwork with the pine. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
February 6, 2008
2:27 PM Post #4503157
| So anybody in favor of painting the trim white??? I guess what really bothers me is I just don't get the clean feel I want and get with the white. but I don't want it to look that much out of place. |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
February 6, 2008
3:21 PM Post #4503419
| Even if I hadn't seen the photos, I'd still be trying to dissuade you from white woodwork with pine.
The photos, though, really point up more reasons not to have the white trim. Along with the contrast you already have in your cabinetry, it would be just too much. Your eye needs someplace to rest, someplace where there's not something "going on." I think it would also be too busy along with the wallpaper border, which I'd be inclined to remove anyway, no matter what you decide to do with your trim.
I do this for a living, and I'm giving you the same advice I'd give a client. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
February 6, 2008
4:11 PM Post #4503627
| Thanks, so very much, I am planning to repaint walls and cabinets and redo the backsplashwith tile.
I am going to take down the border at that time as I guess they are out of style - however I still love them and that is the way I used to decorate a room pick the border first and then pick my paint color.
Since you do this for a living. What do you think of painting the knotty pine? However, I still like it. |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
February 6, 2008
5:10 PM Post #4503834
| Well, we all like what we like :), but it's true that a wallpaper border nowadays makes a room look dated.
I have no trouble painting pine walls at all, but if the pine is appropriate to the style of your home and you like it, then you should keep it. Do you look at shelter magazines? If so, you'll find some lovely rooms with painted wood walls: board and batten, planks, panels, whatever. This can be a nice background for cottage-style or can even work in more formal settings.
Men, especially, think that wood is sacred and should never be painted. That's only true if you're going to destroy the value of a fine antique. If something can be made to look better with a coat of paint, I say paint it!
Which reminds me...I recently bought a solid cherry dresser from an elderly neighbor. He was appalled when I told him I intended to paint it. My DH said, "He has no idea what you do with a can of paint." I painted it a medium shade of green with a slight olive cast to it. I then did a very fine crackle finish on just the drawer fronts and went over the whole thing with oil-based wood stain, shading the edges and corners of the drawers slightly darker. It looks beautiful with my headboard which is upholstered in dark olive silk. The wood framing the silk is painted a slightly different shade of green from the dresser. I think I need to invite my neighbor over so he can quit worrying about his dresser. Of course, being of the old school, he probably thinks a bedroom should contain a matched suite of furniture, and mine doesn't.
Good luck with your kitchen project. |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
February 7, 2008
12:17 PM Post #4507173
| And I never had the clean feeling with white woodwork. It always looked dirty. |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
February 16, 2008
12:31 PM Post #4546205
| I am going to do something this next week. I got the boarder stripped off. What would it look like if----
I paint the trim and windows white on the two painted walls that I am going to repaint and leave all the knotty pine and trim on the other walls natural? I am thinking it might work and then again??????????????? |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
February 16, 2008
12:52 PM Post #4546297
| White trim would certainly look better on a painted wall than it would on a knotty pine wall. However, if the trim currently matches the trim on the knotty pine walls, you might consider leaving it alone, it might look better if all your trim looks alike, at least in rooms that connect directly to each other. My personal taste is that I'll do different color walls in rooms that connect up to each other, but I always keep the trim the same color to unify things a bit. It's really personal taste though, so do what's going to make you happy (keeping in mind of course that it's much easier to paint things than it is to un-paint them...so if you're going to paint the trim you need to make sure you're not going to change your mind later!) |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
February 16, 2008
2:08 PM Post #4546567
| I agree with ecrane and will add this. I've always felt that the paint on the walls makes my wood trim pop out. And I like that, but again, personal preference. |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
February 16, 2008
2:24 PM Post #4546647
| Congratulations on getting rid of the border.
Ecrane and terry are right. That's really one large room, not two totally separate areas. If you change the one thing that unifies the two sections--the woodwork--it will look as if you're trying to divide them (unsuccessfully and needlessly) into two rooms. The same woodwork will lead your eye smoothly from one area to another rather than acting as a visual brake on your sight line, an effect which can be jarring. |
