No to white woodwork in house

[Kjv83]

We are just buying a new home thats a 1930s mock Tudor fronted property. As its not an era as such, we are planning to go Edwardian/Victorian styling unless anyone can suggest anything more in keeping? Also, we are thinking to steer away from brilliant white Woodwork (walls, doors, skirting etc) and was wondering if you can use just normal paint to get an off white/cream? Seems Satinwood which we normally get only comes in white unless you get the tinest tin and its a 4 bed house! Also I guess we would need to do ceilings in same to match the Woodwork? We cant seem draw a conclusion on it so any input would be great!

Eggshell?

We’ve got an older house and have gone with tonal colours - white with a hint of blue in the blue William Morris papered dining room.

1930s is an era, you could do some research and see what it would have looked like. You might like it.

Satinwood comes in loads of colours and if you get it mixed then you can choose a larger size.

Valspar do big tubs of woodwork paint in B&Q and so do Dulux at their decorating centres.

I read your post as meaning you didn't want white gloss for woodwork rather than being against white per se.

Even just switching the same colour from gloss to satinwood makes a big difference. I hate gloss paint.

Yes we dont do gloss at all. Just come from a new build that had gloss and it went yellow! Satinwood comes in different colours in dulux but only in small tins of which we would need a tonne!

Yes thanks had a look and you are right. At £68 a tin its not cheap but its a resolve 😊

Yes dulux do small tins but need loads so will see if b and q can mix it for us although an expensive way to do it

Surely 1930s you'd go art deco

It sits in the Interwar period but interior wise they adopted the art deco/regency era but thats not really us.....

Yes interior wise they went art deco which isnt to our taste so sticking for an earlier vibe

Yes interior wise they went art deco which isnt to our taste so sticking for an earlier vibe

Our ceiling, walls and woodwork are all painted in the same Little Greene colour. We used Absolute Matt Emulsion on the ceilings, Intelligent Matt Emulsion on the walls, and Intelligent Eggshell on the woodwork. All looks/ works fine. (Our house is Edwardian).

I live in a 1930s property and the yellowing gloss is horrific! We have to repaint ALL OF IT every year otherwise it looks horrific.

If I had my own way I’d do either black or a really dark green colour. Anything stop the yellowing! The finish hasn’t made a difference in our property unfortunately.

There are non yellowing low sheen paints for woodwork. Trade so will cost more.

We’ve got a 1930s semi and have done our woodwork in the same colour as the walls and our ceilings/above the picture rail in the complementary white for each colour. Our door frames are primed in white but they’ll be a v dark grey/light black eventually.

I’ve included an example below but it might take a while to get approved. The weird marks aren’t on the wall, I cracked my camera protector dropping my phone off a ladder whilst decorating 😂

We have. Always loved the style of the era. Just redecorated our retirement flat throughout. It’s fabulous and luckily art deco furniture seems to be going through one of its fairly regular dips in popularity so we’ve been able to pick up some furniture to add to the pieces we already had.
Had a lot of fun researching and fitting out the bathrooms, in particular.
Would really urge you to look into it, OP.

We use water based eggshell on all woodwork, you can get it in any colour you want at a trade paint shop or Valspar at a B&Q with a mixing station. I find eggshell easier to paint with than satinwood and it’s really hard wearing.

I haven't read the full thread, but yellowing of paint often comes from using an oil based paint vs water based paint. And I've come across it in homes where people are heavy smokers. As others shared, there's many options for a nice "white" paint for woodwork. Good luck.

When you say 'they' adopted art deco do you mean at the time of construction or the last owners?

Just don't remove any period features whatever you go for stylewise, as they add value.

1930s wasn’t all art deco. Fashionable houses would have been art deco or moderne whereas older more traditional properties were probably a sort of mash up with Edwardian over tones. In same way that not all current houses have adopted the “grey everywhere” approach which I would say is the overwhelming decorating ethos of past 10yrs.

I would echo others - don’t remove any period features! And the purist in me would also suggest not embracing pure edwardiana! I care for a 1930s house and love it - it’s well proportioned, and has lots of light. We used Leyland paint as that was decorators choice (colour matched quite a few little greene colours, they have a 1930s curation which might be helpful). Not sure re woodwork options as I’m a traditionalist and went for white on the painted woodwork.

Gloss is out now 100% nobody actually likes gloss 😆 mine is white but it’s eggshell, no shine at all. I love it!

Yes think we hace decided eggshell for sure! Gloss needs to get in the bin 🤣

Will certainly keep the fireplaces in there and the original features as we love them. Will look at the moderne styling and see if we can incorporate a bit of everything. We aren't traditional in our choices and certainly steered away from the grey look in the past years. Will look at the little greene colours as have never come across them! Think we have settled on eyeshell in white though to keep the crisp lines and light clean airy feel 😊