Colour drenching hallway

[Derbyderby]

Hi, can anyone advise how to best use colour drenching in hallway? In particular what do you do about door frames into other rooms ie. bedrooms, bathroom, living rooms. I would like to try it but I just don’t know where to begin! Would it be easier to just stick to white woodwork? We live in a 1930s semi so picture rails to consider too.

Thank you

Could you do half and half? So one colour on skirting, lower half of your wall up to and including the picture rail, then another colour for top of wall, cornicing and ceiling? Then doorframes/doors could be in the colour of the lower half of the wall.

I have a long, narrow hallway so I’m doing colour drenching with a difference to hopefully make the hall look wider.

im going with a soft white on the ceiling which will sweep over and down one full wall of the hall, including doors and skirting. The opposite is going to be quite a strong colour - as yet undecided but possibly a dark teal.

im bored with white woodwork and as I’ve been going through the house, I’ve been painting all woodwork the same colour as the walls. This means doors are painted different colours both sides, the leading edge is painted the colour of the room it leads into.

Thank you for your replies. I will keep giving it some thought but I’m wondering whether to do it in another room first just to see how it looks.

Be brave! Colour drenching is fab, and white trim is like a whimper of despair. The trick is to use a colour that works well with all the colours leading off it.

The walls are going to be green and I’m thinking of tongue and groove panelling on the stair wall in the hallway so against all the other rooms/doorways that would be quite a contrast 🤔

It's not colour drenching if your ceiling or woodwork is a different colour. And if you have stairs there will be a point where 'above the picture rail' and 'below the picture rail does not have a clear boundary because the picture rail will end before the stairs so that isn't an option (assuming you have a picture rail of course).

Choose a colour you love, that you are happy to be seen from every room in the house and paint everything that colour. That might just be a light colour (I've always just had white hallways) or it might be something dark and more dramatic. But you need to do everything that colour if you want colour drenching.

But it's fine to have green walls and white woodwork if that's what you'd prefer (and it's a lot less work to not necessarily have to repaint all the doors).

I really want to try this on the next room I do, but is it going to be a fleeting trend that will look ridiculously dated in a couple of years? I’m worried about the pain of returning strongly-coloured woodwork to white in the future.

I have been colour drenching for 10 years at least. I don’t call it that of course.

Occasionally I paint the ceiling in a slightly different shade because I find that works really well in the evening when I have soft lights and candles lit to create shadows.

My advice? It’s only paint. Try it and if it’s not for you re paint.