What colour are your skirtings/woodwork?

[RedRed9]

I had to replace a tiny bit of skirting and have found that by painting it white gloss it definitely doesn’t match the existing skirting!

This is odd because on first glance the existing skirting looks pretty white. But it must either have aged or it isn’t and never was ‘pure brilliant white’.

I’ve accepted that, annoyingly, I’ll have to paint all the woodwork. But pure brilliant white or a slightly creamier off white? (If you have the latter and like it could you tell me exactly what colour and brand you used?)

Basically, what colour are your skirtings?

Im going to follow this thread because i think i heard that contemporary white paints fade, hence the trend for coloured skirting... but i don't know that for a fact.

Gloss white fades and goes a little yellow but satin wood paint doesn't, we've used Crown Satin in Brilliant White for years and is very good.

I've had coloured skirting before but end up back to white as it's classic and matches everything

Mine is Dulux Timeless Eggshell, it’s a soft off-white. I do like it.

Mine is Dulux Jabot - it's very similar to Timeless.

Pure brilliant white has blue in it, so doesn't look right (blue makes it cool) with warm colours.

So most oil-based paints will yellow, especially if they are out of direct sunlight, just use a decent, trade water-based paint (satin or eggshell, the glosses never look very good).

Timeless is a good colour for an off-white skirting, or Farrow and Ball New White. If you are feeling really bold two-tone skirting looks amazing in the right room.

Thanks! I think I’ll go for Dulux timeless satin.

Very annoying because a) I spent a lot of money on a ‘lifetime guarantee no yellowing’ white paint.
And b) now I need to do more painting!

But it’s not the end of the world and I’d rather it all looked nice.

Mine are different in different rooms. I have never unused gloss though, I use eggshell. I really like dark woodwork and have f&b downpipe in some rooms.

Ahhh this was a long conversation I hand with our kitchen designer actually, and she came up with a great suggestion. Usually I go for satin wood in brilliant white, but one cottage I have had small windows and the white turns yellow pretty quickly, so she ( karen at onePlan) suggested using brilliant while on walls ( as this in Matt doesn't yellow ) and Charlestone Gray on the skirtings/architraves etc etc . It works brilliantly. Gives a cottage feel too.

Mine are different in different rooms.

How does that work with door frames @geojojo ? Do you literally just paint half a door frame dark and then the other side light? Or do you do both sides of the door frame one colour and have it mismatch against some skirting?

That’s a good idea @wehaveafloater but I’m happy with my wall colour so wouldn’t want to swap them to white right now.

@geojojo I bet that looks fab, don't suppose you've got any photos have you?

@RedRed9 I Would go with the corner where the door lining and the door jamb meet, be nice and easy to run some tape down that corner and get a crisp line

I think I’ve found some photos @geojojo Do you mean something like this?

I don’t have any doors in most of the frames (only bedrooms and bathrooms) though so don’t think this will work for me but I think it’s a great idea.

We have Wimborne White by F&B in all rooms. We have oak doors but all frames and windows are Wimborne White interior eggshell. Doesn’t fade. Doesn’t go yellow. Perfect after 10 years.

We also have exterior eggshell in Wimborne White for all exterior woodwork. If a bit of paint goes astray it doesn’t show!

I’m in the same boat, painted with an expensive white gloss that was guaranteed not to go yellow. Two years down the line it looks cream.

Well pissed off. Can’t remember what paint it was either.

Yes that's right! If you look at the frugality on Instagram she has done this to most of her rooms and it looks great.

But if a rubbish picture but this is in my daughter's room, she has pale pink walls so the skirting makes it a bit less sickly sweet.

@geojojo Thanks for posting that. I love that look! My house is small so every room is off white, I definitely think I could get away with painting the skirting boards that colour.

userxx go for it! My dh was sceptical but even he likes it. And it's only paint, if you don't like it you can just paint over!

Same colour as the walls, throughout the house.

the yellowing is not a gloss:satinwood divide

Its oil-based:water-based.

When VOC reductio rules came in, the old oil paints were withdrawn and new formulae developed. The early white ones were prone to yellowing if used indoors and away from sunlight. You can see the difference on a window-board that has a pot-plant or ornament on it, the shaded part will be yellow. Water-based paints don't do that.

That must have been around ten years ago, and the formulae have since been improved. Water-based paints are quite popular now (though difficult to sand).

I still believe that an oil-based system is more durable outdoors.

(oil-based means you thin it, or clean up, with white spirit).