What colour for picture rail if walls are white?

[Itscurtainsforyou]

Hi there - I'm looking for a bit of style/colour advice.

I have a room that is very dark, so I'm in the middle of painting it absolute white. However, it has a picture rail 18 inches or so from the top of the ceiling and it looks a bit odd to have that in white too.

It seems a shame to "waste" a feature like that by losing it by painting all the same colour, but I'm not sure what else to do. I've always thought that coloured woodwork looks a bit odd.

I have a fair bit of woodwork in the room (door, french doors, door frames, skirting) which is white so don't really want to repaint those if I can help it.

Any thoughts?

Any accent colour which goes with your room I guess.

I don't think it's odd to paint it white, and I don't think you'll lose it as a feature just because it isn't in a contrasting colour. Less is more

White would be my choice, making a feature just seems odd

My friend did hers black

Grey is nice

Thank you!

I'm now starting to think that may white will look ok. I guess if I don't like it I can always paint over it...

White.

I would paint it white too

Yep white. We've just moved into a house with some dodgy colours on woodwork/coving etc and its so hard to get rid of them.

White all the way. You also may make the room look smaller with a different colour.