Paint these beams or leave them?

[MrsMummyBx]

Hi All, total redec of Yorkshire cottage. It's a holiday let and changing to spotlights in these rooms. Keep the beams stained wood or paint white? They are not original- boxes in RSJs from when the building was converted. Do add a bit to the country style but then again maybe better light and fresh??

Leave them, they are lovely!

Yep, I'd leave them too

Definitely leave them! I love them

I think leave them, they're a lovely colour, look genuine and it's nice to have a bit of wood for warmth/contrast

Leave them. If you paint them then you'll have to do them regularly. If you don't paint them then you can do nothing regularly instead!

I'm the only one clearly - but I'd paint them. They make the room seem closed in.

I get what you mean about closed in though...

Leave them if you want to make money on reselling because people love original features like this. But personally I’d have to paint it, it’s a bit too dark for me.

I’d paint them.

I hate wood I'm all white and grey but even I wouldn't paint those!!

They're not original or authentic if they're just boxed in RSJs so I'd paint them.

If you paint them, they will look exactly like boxing for steels.

As they are it is not so obvious as to what they they are concealing. I say leave them