Lately, you may have noticed an influx of black in designs featured in shelter magazines. From a post or two in the blogosphere I am not the only one to notice. I have not seen many black moldings, but I am leaning towards them. I come from the land of Reba, my mother, who has always said mouldings and trim match throughout the house. This is conventional wisdom and by all accounts the norm.
Photo from: Addicted2Decorating
Photo from: Apartment Therapy Photo found on: a room somewhere
Photo: DecorPad
I saw a photo of black floorboards and picture railing, there was no crown molding. I thought I had captured this photo, but it looks like I did not. Of course, I can no longer find it. The ceiling and wall were white, the black picture rail broke the color. Personally, I’d do the ceiling white and the wall antique white and let the picture rail break it up. I liked the look very much. I would paint our floorboards and the trim around the doors black but I would not go “all out” and complete it by painting the trim around the windows black. None of my rooms are that large.
I cannot say that I’m brave enough to do this. Truthfully, my trim goal for our home should be that the whole place has trim and it matches. Have you seen different colored trim in a home or a room? I haven’t. Do I want to be the first?
I like it! However, I think it would only work in big room.
That is my end decision as well. I was going to try it in our guest room, but think the room really needs to be large and/or tall for it to not look cramped.
I’m a fan also but I would be cautious. You’d definitely have to get the right paint so it didn’t look like a cheap paint job, especially on the floor baseboards. Also keep in mind, black shows more dirt…and dog hair. I’m not saying if you have white or antique you don’t have to clean but black does attract a lot more.
JBK: Good point on the dog hair, as The Colonel does enjoy shedding.
I’m a little late but I just fell in love! This is so gorgeous and elegant. I would love to come home to a space like this everyday…
I am a big fan of black. I have been for years. My bath and kitchen cabinets went from mahogany to onyx and looked like brand new. When we sold our home, the biggest comment was my cupboards and bright orange walls. I have wood look baseboards and trim throughout new home that are rough looking. have painted bath cabinet black and want to do all trim and baseboards black. Debating on kitchen cabinets that it may be overkill. For years we have looked at white and wood, no-one said it was too much so I am going in for the kill. My windows are white and was a concern but again, trim is wood (brown)
Will keep updated.