Painting or staining of trim for interior doors
First, I am NOT Harold, but his wife, Shirley. We are painting our dining room after removing wallpaper. The 2 doors going into the dining room were trimmed with Capital Hill casing & rosettes at the top corners. This trim was painted white. The door between the kitchen & dining room was not trimmed on the kitchen side since the kitchen has cherry molding stained to match the cabinets & other trim. Is there a standard that says the trim on the dining room side of the door must match the stain on the kitchen side of the door? Since we are painting the dining room a pottery red, the white on the capital hill casing is just so much more attractive than the cherry stain will be on the capital hill molding. My preference is to leave the inside of the door facing white as well but Harold disagrees with me on this. There must be a standard on this some place. This doorway does NOT have a door in it so there is no molding down the center of the door to separate the cherry stain from the white paint.