Aibu Coloured Skirting Boards??

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Oh is decorating his house thank god we don't live together as his taste is clearly vile.

We've been looking at wallpaper hes chosen what he likes then goes on to say what colour gloss for the skirting boards?

I said white which I thought was the sane and only answer to what colour a skirting board should be. Green is the answer apparently.

Is this a thing?? Have I been living under a rock and this looks nice?. I may have said how it looks tacky and he went mental. Now I feel like a bitch..

why not gloss and what type of paint should be used instead?

There have been problems with the formula of it turning a dirty yellow after a year or two on the wood. This is due to EU stopping use of certain chemicals that previously helped it stay white.

Satin is now the better option.

More grey. In 10 years time it will be the magnolia of interior design. Maybe 5 years.

Doesn't grey woodwork just look like undercoat? Who makes the paint rules anyway, that say white only?

Yy to what other paint than gloss?

I like gloss. It could be any type of paint but when he said green I was a bit

By the way those chemicals were hideous. To us, to asthmatics, to the environment.

If the walls are matt with the same colour on the skirting boards then yes. Grey looks good/smart. What shade of green?

My skirting boards and door frames are a pale 'french' grey. They look gorgeous and it's more practical than white, because they don't discolour and go yellow. They also don't show the dust quite as much (slattern).

I love them, but grey has always been one of my favourite colours. It is very 'in' now but no doubt trends will move on as they always do.

Lime

By the way those chemicals were hideous. To us, to asthmatics, to the environment

Oh I know and don't dispute that. I have just reread my last post and realised it could be construed as me saying "those mean EU bods ruining gloss". I didn't mean it that way just that they banned bad chemicals and paint companies have had trouble getting new formulas to stay white without those nasty chemicals.

There are many shades of white and you can always find one to complement the colour of the walls. Is there not a white with a very slight hint of green?

Our blue hallway skirting board and ceiling are an off white that really sets the colour of the walls off. You wouldn't know they weren't white though

There's no images of this decor in Google images, which is a worry
I'd advice you take your sunglasses when you go around to his.

There might be snowman I never thought of that. He likes quite strong colours that's where we differ.

This is pretty spot on in terms of wall and woodwork colour that I have - with the exception of the black lower half of the skirting boards (mine are totally grey).

Amelia those look fantastic,ive decided im going to go a different colour next time.

Do you know what vulcan the way he was talking about it every house does this and I'm just wrong.

Ive been on Google since he left to see what he's describing and it's not a thing.

It's like something off an early diy show when all the colours are mismatched and the carpets are patterned.

I'd only ever have white gloss, I've never had any gloss go yellow, but to be fair it's been fairly well protected by dust, so perhaps that helped! I think gloss bounces more light around (needed in our old, dark cottage) and is easier to wipe clean.

I'm painting the ones in my hallway a matt dark plum colour - doors and frames to match. Walls will be a soft grey. The hallway needs colour but there is no other way to do it without grotesque carpets, making it look really dark, hanging art you can't really look at!

Floors will be natural wood for the bottom of stairs and a carpet in a natural shade to go up stairs and landing.

That sounds nice betty

OP tell your DP that his decorating style even looked shit in the 80's when it was last fashionable.

I prefer white but agree with the poster upthread who said it's 'in' at the moment. Personally, I don't like gloss, I prefer satinwood but if you really want to be 'on trend' it should be Farrow and Ball not fucking likely at £70 a tiny tin

Mine are all unpainted wood.

When DH and I first got together he had white walls and black skirting boards. It did look very nice and hid the fact he barely cleaned the dirty fucker

I've seen other colour combos with white walls and that can be nice too.

Coloured walls and coloured skirting boards sounds too much to me.

We've got dark wooden ones (inherited with house). I hate them, they really limit wall colours. But my DC are busy ruining them for me so I shall wait until the DC are older and then I may paint them. Or paint the walls white.

It does look shit but I haven't visited enough houses to see how nice it looks according to him

Tell him not to do it!!! And if he insists nothing but a really pale colour.
This house had every bit of wood work painted in that naff fake wood effect paint that was trendy in the late 90s/early 00s. It looked dated as soon as we bought and it took me years to finally be rid of it - have he ever tried stripping skirting boards?
It is a soul destroying, time consuming miserable job - replacing them is the only solution really...

And if you try to pain over not only does it take many coats as soon as it gets a tiny chip it is glaringly obvious...
I know wouldn't buy a house now that had dark painted skirting boards/woodwork (unless it was absolutely dirt cheap -so cheap that I could just employ someone to go and replace them all before I had to put a foot in the door...)
Just NO ....

Tilda - I have recently been converted to eggshell instead of gloss - so much better and looks amazing.