Colour: Baseboard, door trim

[rsx]

I'm painting my walls a medium shade of gray with white baseboards. So far, I've left the door trim alone (dark wood + dark wood door). Am I breaking a cardinal rule? I have a nagging feeling that it's an abrupt color change from white baseboard to a brown door trim.

If I paint the door trim white and leave the door brown, will that look okay? I want to paint the doors black, but I feel the room will be extra dark already considering the wall color (dark gray) + furniture (black).

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Inaii]

So something similar to this?



Personally I think it would look a bit strange, you could always use photoshop to see what it would look like?

[rsx]

Yeah, pretty much. My baseboard ends at the door trim and its brown. Compared to the picture, my door trim and door have a more wooden look (lighter brown), so if I paint the door trim white, would the door need a paint job too?

[Inaii]

If it's a really dark gray on the walls I would either paint the door white to match the molding or paint it a darker colour like in the picture above (personally I would do the white myself, I think it looks much cleaner). If it's a lighter gray, depending on the type/shade of wood you might be able to get away with leaving it as is. Pictures for reference might help

[Hondaracer]

If your base is white I don't have a problem with it.

The problem becomes when you paint the casing the same color as the wall then it comes time to change the wall color