We had our meeting to pick our interior doors and trim. I have my nice binder/notepad combo at each meeting now since inevitably the meeting will cover things in so much detail I won’t be able to keep track. Plus there are always decisions that we leave in the “to ponder and come back to” category.
And yes I am parenting Ramona via the iPhone. Don’t judge.
In case you don’t remember, our builder is in the same office as my parents. The office doubles as a showroom for certain things like doors, trim, and wood flooring. It’s convenient (especially when you are bring your daughter to the meetings…hey Ramona why don’t you go see Papa…sorry dad).
We had unlimited door options, but here were the contenders. Option A is a 2 panel eyebrow arched door. You can see the arch is on the top panel only. Clearly it looks like an eyebrow hence the name.
Option B is a classic 2 panel door. The panels are just rectangles.
Option C is a craftsman style 6 panel door.
All options are nearly the same price. We wanted paint grade doors and trim since it fits more with our style than stained wood. Paint grade saves us $1900 for the doors alone which isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things, but how often is it that you save money and get what you want?
We went with option C. I think it has the most character. It goes well with the “make this new house feel like an old one” that we are going for. Plus it’s interesting.
Moving on to trim. This is the typical trim option with the one on left side being for the door and the right side being the baseboards.
Another option is 1×6 base with a 1×4 case. I like the simplicity of this look. It’s more modern. Yes it will get dusty (like all baseboards), but I vacuum my baseboards when I vacuum the floor anyway.
We won’t have too much crown in the house since the great room and master will have beams instead, but I still needed to decide on what crown we wanted for the formal dining, entry, and office. We had 2 crown options. This option is larger. The ceilings in this room are 10 feet with 8 foot door which is what the house will have. It would be more expensive since it’s larger, but mainly I felt like it was a little overpowering for the space. Doesn’t it feel like it brings the ceilings down?
The other option was the typical crown size. It’s cheaper and less overpowering for our space. It will keep those 10 foot ceilings feeling spacious.
So there you go a sneak peek into what the interior doors and trim will look like. Do you think we made the right call on the doors? Next up we are talking about colors with these selections.
Yay! I liked door C the best too!
It’s definitely more our style. I think door B is great too. It just doesn’t add as much character.
oh i love the simple modern trim! and i was going to say c for door and then read you chose it- so good job there. 😉
Haha thanks Cassie! Who knew trim and doors required so many decisions.
We have option A in our house and I love them,but option C is so cool too!
My sister has option A. She also has eyebrow arches in her hallways. The compliment each other nicely. We are going to have full rounded arches, so we thought it might conflict a little.
Love the flat stock trim. I want that in my next house. Everywhere
Out of the three options C is by far my favorite as well! Love all those horizontal rectangles. Love that some of your doors will be 8 ft. Our pocket doors to the living room is that height and it makes the hall way seem so much taller and larger.
That trim is going to look so great. I didn’t even see that option when we redid our trim in the last house. I’m sure it was there I just didn’t know it! All the doors including the pocket doors in the kid’s bathroom will be 8 feet. The same will go for upstairs…whenever we get around to that!
Door C has so much more character than the others. And I like your choices for trim and crown too. Our house has an assortment of door and trim styles (some rooms have no crown, others have double!) and we are trying to figure out how to unify it all.
I actually like the look of the larger crown more, but it seemed too much. Maybe I will regret it once it’s finished, but then I can just remind myself I saved money. That will make me feel better right?
I LOVVVVE door C. I’m happy that’s what you went with. Those are my favorite types of doors.
Mine too. They definitely have an early to mid century feel to them!
I love door C! We have door B in our house even though every other house in our neighborhood has the old school vertical 6 panel doors. No idea how we lucked out with the doors we did but I think our sales rep put in a good word for us and got us an upgrade somehow!
That chunky trim is great but you’re right, it makes the ceiling height look much lower! Maybe it’s because it’s so dark? What color will your trim be? I can’t wait until the next post to find out haha
You did luck out! I was wondering the same thing if the dark stain made it look even more overpowering. Maybe I’ll change my mind once we get closer to adding it. You know when we can actually see our space and envision the colors. You are going to love the next post about colors!
I love me some Craftsman style so great choice on the doors and baseboards. I think the rinky-dink smaller baseboards look so 90’s. And you’re right about the crown in that color, I normally like them big but they do bring the ceiling down now that you are pointing it out.
I initially wanted the bigger crown just bc I always think that bigger crown is better, but I think we’ll be ok with the smaller one.
I am now debating on whether 6″ baseboards are high enough. Maybe if the taller crown was white or cream, it wouldn’t look so over powering.
I do love choice C. That was my pick when building but it was a pretty significant cost difference between B and C. Sad face.
I do hope you are having someone else paint those babies. I swore my next house would be flat because I hated painted those stupid doors.
Crazy! They were all the same price. There were some craftsman style doors that were more expensive, but they looked nearly identical to the one we picked. I have no idea why there was a difference at all. I mean why would you pay more for the same door?
Yes they are painting them. They have to paint them anyway, so it makes no difference (as far as money goes) what color we picked. It’s all the same price! Such a huge win.
Thank you for not getting stained baseboards:) Rocking that 1970’s/1980’s vibe is not cool. Honestly, I silently shudder whenever I see stained baseboards with the wood grain. Why anyone would intentionally pay more for that look is a mystery to me. I say bring on the paint grade baseboards!!!! 6″ all the way!!! And you are TOTALLY RIGHT about the crown molding.
Oh good! I feel like we are about to have long conversations about this all weekend long! One more sleep!!