Let’s Paint Some Trim & Doors

If you’ve had a chance to read my posts about replacing some of my baseboards & trim, you already know that our Contractor grade home came with light oak colored trim, cabinets & doors. I’ve slowly been replacing that color with one of my favorite Behr brand colors – Chocolate Cupcake. Now, you might think, ‘Oh, a nice chocolate brown’. However, it’s actually a deep olive green. Odd, right?

A few years ago, I decided to use real wood for the trim. Downstairs, I had used MDF when I originally replaced trim but now I felt like it was time to spend the extra $ for quality, hence the ‘slowly replacing’ part. I also replaced all the interior doors in the house with ones I found at Habitat. That post is here. I’ve yet to update the closet doors so for those and for the trim that I’ve not yet replaced, I decided to freshen them up with a little paint. Painting the trim is considerably less expensive, faster and requires fewer supplies and tools.

To be honest, I did very little prep before painting. When I painted the kitchen cabinets & bathroom vanities, I did a very light, quick sanding with a sanding block. For the closet doors, I did a quick wipe with a slightly damp cloth to remove any dust. But for the baseboards & trim around the doorways, I just dusted them with a dustrag. To apply paint to the trim, I used my favorite 1″ angled paintbrush. For the doors, I used a painting pad.

The first trim I painted was in the entryway. I was updating the stairwell, replacing the baseboards & trim around the doors in the space and this light trim just looked out of place once I was done with the rest of the project.

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Doesn’t that look SO much better? Once that trim was painted, I moved on to the baseboards and trim around the doors in the upstairs hall. I especially love how the color makes the wooden door pop!

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The next trim I changed was in the kitchen. I don’t know why I didn’t do this when I painted the cabinets. I think it was because, at the time, I planned to replace the trim. When I bought the pantry door at Habitat, it was white which did not blend well with the kitchen so, I painted it with the Chocolate Cupcake. Now that I was painting the trim with that color, I decided to use another color from the swatch for the door.

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While in the kitchen, I also painted the wood trim that runs along the top of my kitchen countertops & the window sill.

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The last painting project for trim & doors was in our master bedroom. I painted the closet doors, baseboards, window sill, trim around the doorway & the closet.

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So now all my trim, cabinets, doors have been either replaced or painted with the exception of our home office which is on my list of things to do!

If you are looking to update your woodwork with a quick and inexpensive method, painting is the way to go! Here are the posts with more detail on the painting of the cabinets & replacement of trim:

• How I updated my staircase
• Let’s Paint the Kitchen Cabinets!
• Let’s Replace all the Interior Doors!
• Let’s Add Finishing Touches!
• Let’s Paint the Vanities!
• Let’s Install Board & Batten!
• Let’s Organize the Craft Room!

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