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Painting skirting boards a different colour

ShaneODub · 2022-08-02 19:00:05

Hi folks, was thinking of painting my living room this dark yellow colour. Then I saw this apartment on daft.ie and I like the dark skirting boards with it. So, can I just paint my white skirting boards brown? Any drawbacks or reasons it won't work?

02-08-2022 7:00pm

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ShaneODub

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Hi folks, was thinking of painting my living room this dark yellow colour. Then I saw this apartment on daft.ie and I like the dark skirting boards with it. So, can I just paint my white skirting boards brown? Any drawbacks or reasons it won't work?

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#2 02-08-2022 9:00pm

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That looks like the natural wood was stained and/or varnished, rather than a brown paint.
Brown paint will look awful on skirting boards. If that's the look you want you'd be better off replacing the skirting and starting from scratch. Personally I think they'd look better white, but taste is very subjective.

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#3 06-08-2022 10:35am

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The use of skirting boards is a good idea to frame your room but I personally don't like the combination of dark yellow and brown. Basically, both are dark colors. I would suggest you to try the combo of light and dark color instead of it.
Have a look at these 2 combinations:

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