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This is something I’ve noticed. In the nineteenth and early 20th century you had houses that were built with very dark stained brown trim.
From windows to cabinets and doors. It was a brown stained frenzy.
Sometime in the last two decades, white trim became extremely popular. White moldings, white cabinets, white doors.
It’s becoming very hard to find homes on the market that still have the original varnish not painted over with white latex paint interior and exterior.
When did this darker theme go out of style, and do you see it ever coming back to American homes?
Because IMO, by the time a person finished up the outside of their brown trim home with the colors in the same family, the house just became a bit....drab, darkish and foreboding. JMO though
This is something I’ve noticed. In the nineteenth and early 20th century you had houses that were built with very dark stained brown trim.
From windows to cabinets and doors. It was a brown stained frenzy.
Sometime in the last two decades, white trim became extremely popular. White moldings, white cabinets, white doors.
It’s becoming very hard to find homes on the market that still have the original varnish not painted over with white latex paint interior and exterior.
When did this darker theme go out of style, and do you see it ever coming back to American homes?
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It's very simple. My spouse said dark color made her sad.
So we ended up replacing flooring, kitchen cabinets and door with lighter color. It DID the trick. But it is also required more cleaning, which is on me.
I can't recall seeing stained exterior wood trim, except for cedar. I think on the interior, folks have been going white for trim (which harkens back to Colonial/Georgian homes) for decades. Stained interior trim, right now it dates the house to pre-1990.
The house I bought was a 1984 Williamsburg style, and dark as all get out. All the wainscoting and molding, painted white; kitchen cabs, painted white; floors stripped of their dark stain, finished natural. It made a BIG difference in the sunlight ... white reflects, dark absorbs.
I would love a house like the pic with the white lab dog in it, it looks very elegant and full of charm. But the other pics look very 70's to me, dated brown and orange.
I would love a house like the pic with the white lab dog in it, it looks very elegant and full of charm. But the other pics look very 70's to me, dated brown and orange.
I agree. The pic with the dog is classic and nice. The rest are butt ugly. My house was built in 1974 and has the hideous dark stained trim. Looking forward to the day when I can convert the whole house to white trim and white closet doors, etc. It will be a full replacement, not a paint over.
Cheaper wood and wood products replaced the oak, mahogany and other finer products that looked good stained and varnished. The cheaper products did not have attractive or easily matchable grain patterns and were painted, usually white. But you're about fifty years late on when you believe this started although stained woodwork did make a return in the 1970's and 1980's.
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