Q: What is the best way to paint an interior door? I know this for a fact since I have been living with two different colors of trim and doors in my foyer. Over a year ago, I removed the carpet from my foyer staircase, stained the steps in a wood tone and painted the risers white.
This was a huge improvement to the room, but it also added to my painting to-do list. The doors and baseboard in the room were painted Antique White and needed a coat or two of white paint to match the steps. It took me some time to tackle the task, but I finally got to scratch it off my to-do list this past weekend. Prepping takes the most time, the actual painting goes quickly.
Door Painting Tips Before painting a door, here are a few tips to help the task go smoothly: The easiest way to paint a door is while it is in its frame on its hinges. If you remove the door from the frame, the frame may shift and the door may not fit or function properly when replaced. Another reason to leave it on its hinges is that you can paint both sides at the same time. Another way to mask off the hardware is to cover it with two coats of rubber cement.
My question is do I need to paint both sided of the doors. And if it is ok to leave the back sides the original white trim color do I paint all the edges Wrought Iron or leave them white.
Hi Stacy Yes — that is fine to just paint one side and you do leave the edges in white. Glad you like the effect Samantha. The problem is that there is quite a lot of timber trim in the house, which my other half absolutely loves. If he would let me paint the trim and the doors white, all my problems would be over.
Hi Stacey I think as a compromise you could leave the internal doors in timber and just paint all the trim white — skirting boards and architraves. This gives you some nice fresh relief against your soft green and also makes the door a lovely feature — less is more so getting rid of some of the timber makes the remainder look really nice. Perhaps give that a try? Hi Samantha, our interior walls are a soft creamy grey off white. We also have a wooden staircase leading upstairs off the hall.
I was thinking of painting the window frames and doors the same colour as the walls. Would this be ok or should I go a tad darker than the walls? Should I also paint the staircase in the same colour as the walls, and do the cap in say a warm black? The house is quite large and open plan. Thanks for your advice. Hi Margaret you can go either way — a slight contrast is more of a classic look while trim and doors the same as the walls is more contemporary. I do like the idea of bringing in the black for the handrail as this will provide some definition to the staircase.
Can I paint the inside of my solid front door black, leaving the side lights white that match the trim on the foyer? I am concerned about the flat surface of the door being black, all the pictures I have seen have some dimension.
Hi Mary Ellen you can certainly just paint the door rather than the architraves too — in fact this is often the case with a feature door colour. In terms of whether you use black or a dark grey, consider the other elements in the space — do you have any artworks? If so are they framed in black or something else? Lighting, furniture, hat rack etc. Consider all those elements and then decide. A matt finish will absorb more light and this may work better for you if you do opt for black.
Good luck Samantha. Hi Samantha, I was wanting to painted my front door Tricorn Black, but I have two other adjacent doors in that area that are white. Do I need to paint all the doors or can I just paint the one door? I have a timeless look color scheme in that area. Warmest Regards. Hi Lydia My advice would be to just paint the front door in black and paint the other doors to tie in with the internal doors throughout your home.
Cheers Samantha. How do u overcome that? Hi Sarah you need to consider whether you want the fireplace to be a feature or just blend into the surrounding area. I tend to like a feature the best as it is naturally a focal point in the room. I hope that this answers your question Samantha. I want to paint my interior doors. We have quite a few.
Should I match them to the window frames? Or should I treat the exterior doors and window frames as a separate entity. Hi Pamela unless you are making a feature of your doors, they should be painted the same as the architraves and skirting boards architraves for doors and windows. You can choose to use a feature colour for the doors but you need to consider this carefully as you have so many.
Sometimes you can just paint double feature doors or the inside of the front door etc. Generally though I would say to match them to the trim throughout the home. Hope this makes sense!
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Hi Joanne If the silver in the wallpaper is the same on all four walls then I would pick out this colour for the doors, perhaps just a similar pale grey. You need to find a link between the two different colour schemes and then perhaps either use a colour that matches or something a little lighter.
My dilemma is can I paint the main living area doors a different color from the rest of the house? Such as the hallway and. Both colors are very pretty and neutral and do not clash. The walls throughout the house are white so I am also thinking of painting the door trim the same color as the doors.
Hi Nina I find that you need a link with a colour scheme throughout a house but I think you could get away with painting the doors differently if you feel they work together but I would keep the architraves and skirting boards the same — presumably a white — to create a link and a seemless flow.
Have open floor plan — Sage green walls, white mantel, and dark Andiron green front exterior door. What is yr opinion on painting mantel sage green and interior doors dark Andiron green?
Thank you! Hi Lorraine I love dark interior doors but it will completely change the look and mood of your home. I think if the walls are sage green the mantel should be a contrast, either dark or leave it as white.
You need to consider your architraves and skirting boards too — the mood will be much fresher if these are in white against the dark doors. It can certainly work but just consider the overall mood of the house and how you want it to feel.
Let us know how you go! Do all the doors in the house need to be painted the same colour. I was thinking black on one floor but another colour for the other floors? Hi Emma internal doors and trim create a good flow through the house and link the colour schemes nicely. Hi Samantha I have a similar dilemma with a previous reader. My husband loves all the wooden trims and architraves.
The internals doors are wooden but cheap. Could I just paint the wooden doors and trim around them but leave the rest of the trims around windows and architraves wooden. Also this would be a more simple job for me to tackle! Hi Annie yes — absolutely! My partner and I are renovating a s Australian Federation house with dark wooden floors and need to decide on door colour. We are going to have white walls and trim with shaker style doors which would either be white or light coloured oak veneer.
The existing original doors are pine very tired and though we like lighter coloured wood for furniture, we are a little hesitant with regards to going with lighter wooden doors with darker floors for fear that it would lack cohesion with the floors.
We have considered whether we should bleach floors lighter or stain floors black but both are a bit of a departure to the roots of the house which is in a heritage listed area where all the original floors in the area are dark brown the natural colour of old growth Jarrah — an West Australian timber. Some houses did have a Japanese Black treatment historically which leaves floors very dark but not sure whether this would loose to much of the warmth that the floors natural grain brings.
Hi Mark your house sounds fabulous and there is no way that I would change the floors — just restore them as they are. My feeling is that white doors will work the best as I feel the light oak is out of keeping with the Federation style and also makes introducing furniture difficult too.
Hope this helps with your thinking Samantha. We had a similar issue on the paints! I saw an interior designer who gave me some advice I have stuck by through a DIY. When in doubt — choose an off white or a grey. Thank you for this post, it has helped me think outside the box haha. The space will be almost like cotton candy, very pastel colors, furniture will be white, with 3 light gray walls and 1 light pink. And light gray curtains over the pink wall.
But the room has a built-in closet with 3 doors plus 2 doors bathroom and entrance all in walnut. I am afraid of painting them white since the entrance to the room is in a hallway with 2 other walnut doors. What would you recommend? Hi Marie I would keep the doors in walnut and see how you go once it is all finished. You could look at a compromise and paint the built in closet but leave the main doors in walnut? You want a smooth, even surface to paint over for the cleanest result.
Sanding will also remove any paint or coating already on the door, making it a better surface to hold the paint. You may choose to use an electric sander , but we kept it simple and used a sanding block. Once the surface is smooth, wipe off dust with a tack cloth.
To paint a flat door, start by painting the inside hinge edge, working around the door in one direction. Work up from the inside bottom, across the header, and down the striker side. Use a brush for this narrow space for better control. Also, be careful to not load too much paint on your brush at one time. Excess paint causes visible drips.
Next, paint the door's surface. Apply the paint with a 4-inch closed-end foam roller. Run two or three roller widths the full height and across the door face. To remove any lines, lay off the finish by brushing from bottom to top with a lightly loaded brush or lightly coated small roller if desired. This technique allows the roller to deliver the paint quickly and evenly to the surface while keeping a wet edge and leaving a smooth finish.
Let dry. The process is similar to paint a paneled door. While there are an endless number of door colors you could choose to paint your front door, I personally think sticking with white or a gray for the interior is your best best. These are my six favorite paint colors for interior doors:. Tack cloth. The success of any paint job always starts with good prep work. You can either paint your doors in place or take them down and paint them on sawhorses. For the door hinges, I use a utility knife to gently trace the outside of the hinge, cutting the tape as I go:.
Use a cloth to remove most of the sanding dust and then go back over the entire door with a tack cloth to get the rest of it. Priming is ideally done in the same order edges first, etc. Many people have success painting doors using just a brush, but I like to use a combination of a brush and a small roller because it gets the job done faster and results in a much smoother finish.
Rather than simply painting the door from top to the bottom, you can get the best paint job by painting paneled doors in a certain order. For a standard 6-panel door, this is the order to go in:. Start by painting the edges of the door with either the brush or roller. Next, paint the door panels. Cover your sawhorses with a cloth to prevent the newly painted door from sticking to them and make sure that the cloth you use is smooth with no texture to it, or you could end up with a textured pattern in your door once it comes of the sawhorses.
Once your second side is dry, simply rehang your doors and reinstall your door hardware. Let me know if you guys have any questions! And if you want to make sure you can find this post easily in the future, Pin the image below:.
Thank you!! I am gearing up to repaint all the doors in our house as my children are now old enough to not beat down a closed door with a toy if either of us parents are trying to claim some privacy.
I would also love similar tips on repainting window frames! What a great tool. The mister is the painter in our family.
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