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[Bri36]

@magicmoodz, I love that!!

[QVCFanfromLongIsland]

My favorite trim color is antique white by Benjamin Moore.  I have it all through my house.

[MickD]

A soft white....at the local hardware store it's labelled as swiss coffee.....go figure.

[magicmoodz]

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@Bri36 wrote:

@magicmoodz, I love that!!

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Thank you, @Bri36.  I was always more of a traditionalist when we owned single family homes.  Now a more contemporary window suits our urban condo. Thankfully they wash all the exterior windows/doors and we can hire the same company to wash the interiors for a very competitive fee. Done and done! 

[Katcat1]

If you are talking about woodwork or baseboads, I like a white color.  Not off white -- it has to be white.  Decorator's White by Benjamin Moore comes to mind and the walls in China white.  Beautiful.  I am getting ready to paint a desk that I bought at Pier One 3 or 4 years ago.  The wood is too dark of a stain so I want to paint it off white.

[SHOPR]

I like painted and stained trims and have both, but the stained and sealed is so much easier to maintain.   

O/T and FWIW, I will never use another trim paint unless it contains enamel and is specifically made to withstand high traffic trim areas like door jambs near light switches.  

My current bedroom and half bath trim are done in either Sherwin-Williams Duration or SuperPaint, in a discontinued off white.  Trim has become tacky over a few years and the tacky does not clean off.  

To save myself the hassle of scraping off the tacky areas and repainting everything, I just washed down the affected boards from top to bottom with TSP, and coated them with water-based polyurethane with a paintbrush.  In just an hour or two of drytime, they felt slick and better than new to the touch.

I wanted to share because I've been dealing with this annoying issue.

I hope it helps someone.  

[stevieb]

It depends on the overall scheme, including, of course, the wall color and the flooring. For a white-ish neutral, I like Sail Cloth from Benjamin Moore. 

[stevieb]

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@SHOPR wrote:

I like painted and stained trims and have both, but the stained and sealed is so much easier to maintain.   

O/T and FWIW, I will never use another trim paint unless it contains enamel and is specifically made to withstand high traffic trim areas like door jambs near light switches.  

My current bedroom and half bath trim are done in either Sherwin-Williams Duration or SuperPaint, in a discontinued off white.  Trim has become tacky over a few years and the tacky does not clean off.  

To save myself the hassle of scraping off the tacky areas and repainting everything, I just washed down the affected boards from top to bottom with TSP, and coated them with water-based polyurethane with a paintbrush.  In just an hour or two of drytime, they felt slick and better than new to the touch.

I wanted to share because I've been dealing with this annoying issue.

I hope it helps someone.  

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Thanks for the information @SHOPR...

[stevieb]

Oh, and by the way... no... fall doesn't put me in the mood to paint... 

[aubnwa01]

My plantation shutters (all windows & 2 patio sliders) & all of the  interior trim is Dunn-Edwards Pearl White, so I'm sort of stuck with that, as I think trying to paint shutters with all of the hinges & vanes, is a bit of a daunting task!