Painting room white - what about picture rail?

adandem

robatwork wrote: »

Retro and vintage are exactly that.

Clean and modern is exactly that too.

IMHO, naturally.

But both belong in the 21st century, IMHO.

Today's modern is tomorrow's out of fashion.

ayoub_2

we have red room

robatwork

ayoub wrote: »

we have red room

Yes. Yes, I'm sure you do. Is it from all those crayons?

Ader1

I'm renovating/re-decorating a house which is a Victorian building. It has picture rails in every single room. Or should I say....did have. I've taken them all off but I'm considering putting them back up again once the walls have been skimmed. They were in varnished wood colour. Can you purchase 'picture rail wood in this day and age?

notisis

In my Victorian house I have a white bedroom. White gloss skirting and picture rail and architrave, white emulsion ceiling and above picture rail and then off white walls below the rail. The door is stripped pine I think. You can still buy picture rails - either mdf type from b&q etc for painting or pine, oak or similar wood from merchants. We've just had a room replastered and are replacing skirting and rails with oak.

sweaty_betty

You can definitely still buy them. I think they look nice in period properties (those that would've had them originally).

Thanks for all the input. We've gone for brilliant white eggshell on the picture rails. I think it looks ok:)