Door frames, do you match the door or the archatrive?

newbuilder · 24-11-2008 01:48PM #1

I have a problem, I am putting walnut internal doors in my house, but in some rooms I want walnut skirting and archative and in others painted skirting and archatrive, if I have walnut doors with the walnut archatrive on one side and painted archatrive on the other, what colour door frames do I use?? Walnut or painted??? Do you think if I had walnut door frames and painted archatrive it would look odd??? HEELLLLLPPPP!!!!

Dizzyblonde · 24-11-2008 03:52PM

In my opinion, the skirting and architrave should match. So in the rooms where you have a painted skirting board you'd want to paint the architrave too.
I have oak doors and painted skirting/architrave, and I think it shows off the doors very well. I have wooden floors so I thought that oak architraves and skirting would be overkill. Just my personal preference.

newbuilder · 24-11-2008 04:17PM

Yeah, thats what I was thinking so the rooms that I have walnut floors, I want to put the painted skirting and archatrive. Its just that in some rooms, one side of the door in one room it will have painted archatrive and skirting and the other side of the door in another room it will have walnut archatrive and skirting, so I'll have to put a walnut door frame. I'm just wondering do you think that a walnut door frame with a painted archatrive will look ok?

Dizzyblonde · 24-11-2008 09:06PM

I see your dilemma, and unfortunately it's something that you won't know until you try it. If it's any help, we painted all our skirting and architraves/door surrounds cream and it's very effective. It's a question of what you like personally though.

Wertz · 26-11-2008 04:44AM

Paint the half of the door frame you can see from the side with the painted archs and skirts, as far as where the door stop is. Trying to line off the archs onto a walnut frame will just look odd and the door won't stand out as much.
The correct way to finish a split door frame like this is for the internal hinge side of the frame to match the room it can be seen from (ie, either walnut or paint)

newbuilder · 26-11-2008 03:27PM

Thanks for that, interesting . . . . . . .

Door frames, do you match the door or the archatrive?

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