How To Decorate A House Trimmed In Orange Oak

I often become calls from homeowners who are struggling to pick paint colors that go with honey oak trim. Here in Des Moines, many of the houses congenital in the 1980s and 1990s and even 2000s prominently feature sleeky, lacquered, love oak trim. The prospect of painting all of that woods trim, whether it's your own fourth dimension and labor or paying a professional, tin can be daunting.(Update: We just had the oak trim painted in our new business firm, and it cost a small fortune, only it was so worth it!)

But, maybe you don't want to paint the beloved oak trim or cabinets. Some of my clients actually prefer the expect of natural wood. There is admittedly nothing wrong with that! Honey oak trim tin exist quite beautiful.

Tip #1: Dearest Oak is Orangish

The almost important thing to understand nigh love oak is that it has a color, and that color is orange, probably xanthous-orange. When you are selecting paint colors, furniture, and accessories or, more importantly, fixed elements like countertops and tile, information technology's very important to keep asking yourself: "Does this look expert with yellowish-orange?"

Tip #two: Go Light and Creamy

I recently met with a couple who were totally stumped as to what paint color they should choose. They had honey oak cabinets in their kitchen and dear oak trim throughout the unabridged home. I recommended that they paint the walls a creamy white or pale gold, which would exist a drastic improvement from the stark builder'south white that they had been living with for eight years.

For their kitchen backsplash, I suggested two options of marble subway tile, both of which included some golden veining

Tip #3: Choose a Green-Gray

Other paint colors that would wait beautiful with love oak wood trim are warm grays with green or bronze undertones. In bathrooms and bedrooms, blueish-greens tin also look lovely.

Stay far away from whatever beiges with absurd-pink undertones and grays with truthful bluish or violet undertones.

If you accept a hard time understanding the undertone of a light neutral, look at the darkest swatch on the strip. You tin can usually see the base color more clearly.

Tip #4: Hire a Professional

Many people struggle to selection paint colors with wood trim. If you are challenged past color, know that y'all are not alone. Paint is often touted as a quick and like shooting fish in a barrel solution for all of our decorating woes, but at that place is yet meaning time and money involved in painting even one room, let alone your entire dwelling.

This is the best time to call a professional for a colour consultation. A adept designer can save you hundreds or fifty-fifty thousands of dollars in bad conclusion making.

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66 thoughts on "How to Pick the Right Paint Colour to Get with Your Love Oak Trim and Cabinets"

Cheers SO much, this helps immensely! Although I do think I'1000 okay with color I was not seeing the orange in the honey oak. Which also explains why I accept been frustrated with my decorating- I am a cool colour beach kinda gal who has not used whatsoever orange at all. I am now hopeful about this firm!
1. I take white kitchen cabinets and love oak trim and medium oak floor. What would exist a good wall pigment color??
Practice you know the name of the paint color in the beginning movie of the kitchen? 🙂
1. I checked on the Houzz page for the photograph, and it looks like information technology's Benjamin Moore Desert Twilight 2137-xl.
2. What paint colour is used in the flick for tip #3?
I too have a house total of orange-y oak and am looking for a paint color to help the oak blend in a bit more than. Do you accept any favorite pale gold paint colors or warm grays that y'all recommend or utilize often with oak? Give thanks you!
1. Recently, I've used BM Manchester Tan with oak and really like information technology. It'southward a very pale beige with gold undertones. I've also used Revere Pewter and thought it worked well. Yous could also try Stake Oak.
We besides have honey oak trim throughout our home and the walls are painted and oatmeal beige. I am looking for a color to paint the kitchen cabinets that would compliment the oak trim. Whatsoever suggestions?!
1. White Dove is my go-to color for cabinets and trim.
"I think other colors that would look cute with honey oak are warm grays with light-green or bronze undertones" – can you give me some examples of some of these grays? We have beloved oak trim in the whole firm and honey oak cabinets in the kitchen – looking to movement away from our current creams and tans. Thank you!
Tin can you please share the white/cream paint colour of the second kitchen? Thanks:)
1. I am also curious about the color in the 2nd motion-picture show. It would go perfectly in the house I but bought.
  1. How-do-you-do Shannon, I'm non sure…only if you click through the photograph to the Houzz link, you can ask the builder through that platform.
Just bought a new house with honey oak trim and doors throughout the whole business firm. The walls are beige now and I don't intendance for it at all. My kitchen cabinets are cherry wood. What color gray paint would you suggest to paint all through the house?
1. Hi Amy, it definitely depends on the undertone of the cherry besides as the other elements in the space similar your floor, the countertops, and the backsplash. I'm working with a client now who has all cherry trim and cabinets. The trim is an orange stained scarlet, and the cabinets are definitely more purple. I have had a terrible time selecting a expert color considering the 2 stains don't look dandy together to brainstorm with.
We simply bought a house with this trim and flooring throughout. I am not a fan of warm colored walls, do you feel that if I painted the walls a cool, low-cal grey color that it wouldn't go well with all the warm trim? Thank you!
1. Hello Julia, so cool is a relative term. You should exist looking closely at the undertones of the color. I call back your best bet is to choose a greyness with light-green undertones and avert any with pink, purple, or blue undertones. Grays don't tend to have yellow undertones – that would exist what nosotros call beige.
2. Accept Honey oak kitchen and floors. My whole house has dear oak- doors, windows and trim. Painting them all can be expensive. What do you propose?
  
  So nosotros will proceed oak most probably. What sherwin williams colors would suit the walls? Desire to motility away from beige or dark-green. I like to stay on lighter side with LRV of 55 or high, except for emphasis walls. Want to have ane colour all effectually house with some accent walls.
We are embracing the honey oak trim in our business firm but have some trim that needs to exist replaced. Do you happen to know the stain color/make that was almost normally used on this trim? Also, we painted a wall in the basement SW Needlepoint Navy and it really looks beautiful with the trim!!!
Useless post. Does not even give the names of the pigment colors?
1. Hullo Mike, I'grand pitiful you lot feel the post was useless. The point was not to provide verbal colors. It was to explain how I get about finding the right color to piece of work with oak trim and cabinets. Recently I selected SW Grecian Ivory for a whole dwelling with oak trim using the information I wrote nigh. It's a creamy color with a yellow light-green undertone that complimented the oak trim and floors and the greenery outside.
  1. I have oak laminate flooring throughout the firm (except kitchen and bath.) I alive in coastal town due north of Boston Massachusetts. Later a lot of pain my samples and experimenting with pigment colour (and a large unabridged north facing living room.) I went with Open Air past Sherwin-Williams for the wall color and Greek Villa for trim. If I were to modify it, what would y'all suggest? I am thinking perhaps Veranda Ivory past Valspar or Cancun Sand by Benjamin Moore for walls and keeping
    Greek Villa for trim. Any thoughts?
Curious equally to why you say no blue undertones since orangish is blueish's complementary color on the colour bike. Is it because the blue will make the orangish stand out more than?
1. I know it's weird, but for some reason it merely doesn't expect peachy, especially if the blue are really cool or gray. As presently as the blue veers more towards purple than dark-green, information technology starts to experience off. You lot would think pinks would look proficient likewise every bit an analogous color scheme, only they don't work either.
  1. I have Aristocratic Gray in my bathroom with orange/gold oak. Information technology does cause the oak to stand out, but I really don't mind it. It's a actually pretty color (in the bath) Maybe because it'due south not a giant kitchen or LR?
We are in the process of updating our house that has honey oak trim. Our dining room has an oak chair rail. I was thinking of using SW Perfect Greige and Ghost Pines in the dining room. And using SW Adler Grayness in the residue of the house. I am wondering what your stance is of those colors in combination with love oak trim.
Found your mail service then helpful. Just moved into condo with all dearest oak cabinets, trim, doors and searching for the right paint color. Decorating does non come easy to me and take been reading, reading, reading.

We only accept Sherwin Williams around here so will endeavor SW Grecian Ivory.

Nice response to Mike's post; you lot take been extremely helpful . . . and I accept been on many sites researching. Yous write in a manner which is easily understandable for design challenge individuals!
1. Hi Kimberly, I'm glad you found it helpful! One of these days, I will do a roundup of actual colors that look not bad with Honey Oak. But, it's so subjective and dependent upon the fixed finishes. In my own firm, we had lots of oak and still practice in our principal bathroom and kitchen. The previous owner put a stain on the oak in our bathroom that veers more than cerise. So the same colors might not piece of work with that verbal oak. I do love the Grecian Ivory and I think it'due south worth exploring. Natural Pick is another ane you could await at too if you want something that reads a little like white but not stark or common cold. As well, we did Revere Pewter in the lower level of the same house with the Grecian Ivory considering information technology worked improve with the rock, countertops, and carpeting. Looks swell!
Hi I have been searching for kitchen colors and iam confused I take my get-go home and it needs upward dated pigment I have all white doors and trim my cabinets and flooring are oak right at present my kitchen looks yellow paint but it was really a biscuit desire to brighten information technology up with different color any suggestions I was leaning towards a blue grey or grey blue peradventure I need to wrap this project up lol have to many samples on the wall aid
I take honey oak kitchen cabinets and all trim throughout, a biscuit countertop, black and silver appliances.
I wanted low-cal blue walls but nil is looking right with the swatches I have. I saw yous said blues won't work (I'm bummed). I have stake/medium yellow walls now that I hate just I want a color other than greyness or cream. The kitchen is the only room that doesn't accept white walls. Are there whatsoever other colors you tin can recommend?
Cheers!
1. Hello Margaret, you tin can do a bluish but the trick for honey oak is to do a blue-green. And information technology should have a touch of greyness. Sherwin Williams Sea Salt comes to heed. It's one of my favorite blues.
  1. Ok, that gives me hope for blue walls! Thank you!
    1. Agreeable Gray has a lot of blue undertones, maybe that would piece of work?
      1. I think Agreeable Gray has more of a greenish undertone than bluish. Information technology helps me to await at the darkest color on the strip to identify the undertone.
Hi!
This is very enlightening posts-I've been looking at my oak kitchen & trim all wrong! My question is about floor- I have beautiful oak wainscoting in a medium rich tone in halls, dining area while the kitchen is honey oak. Once we got all wallpapers down, the woodwork is gorgeous & I programme to keep it, the problem is 4 different floorings with laminate, carpet & oak. I'd like to update but have NO thought what I should be looking at. Color, wood texture, tile ??? What would your recommendation, thanks!
Hi!! I loved reading chiliad your article. I was looking at Benjamin Moore palest pistachio or sea foam with our honey oak. Just wondering what your thoughts on those colors? Thanks!
Love the chamber with the light blueish-greenish wall color. Practise you know what color paint that is?
For kitchen and dining room, I've used Sherwin Williams Believable Buff with the orange oak woodwork. It's a nice, pleasant, almost a golden color and blends well with environs. Accent wall in kitchen is SW Sierra Redwood which picked up some of that color in our tile floor. A squeamish balanced look. And I did use an interior decorator who came up with the paint colors.
I'd honey to hear your recommendations. I'k wanting to paint my honey oak kitchen cabinets white this summer but I accept too much of the oak trim to pigment that besides. It's throughout our entire firm. We as well have a white .. VERY WHITE ceramic tile floor in our kitchen that volition need to exist kept for awhile. The counter top is a lite grey laminate that'll exist kept for a flake too. I've accented with big night grey surface area rugs in the entry and kitchen area to break up the WHITE floor and would like to also alter the walls to a greige of some sort besides but one that tends more than toward a grey than a beige. Is that ok with the beloved oak everywhere? SO THANKFUL of any input!!
Thank you for this data, it's most helpful.
I have a den with beloved oak chair rail, crown, and baseboards, two beams that are a lil darker, and beadboard below the chair rail. Any suggestions regarding the beadboard? I recollect I'd like it to "blend in" with the chair track and baseboards. Thanks!!
Would quiet gray look good with honey oak trim and flooring and my cabinets are maple but the aforementioned coloring as floor and trim
1. Serenity tends to be a greyness light-green but it's not as warm, relatively speaking, as Agreeable Gray or Worldly Grey. Information technology has less dark-green in information technology than they practise. Yous tin can exam information technology out and effort it in your low-cal, but it's worth considering.
Hi, We take all honey oak cabinets and trim, and are at present installing a gray/tan tone hardwood floors- what color exercise I paint the walls, we are looking to paint the unabridged house, right now its a cardboard brown, to much dark-brown! what color practise you lot advise
We are in the verge of remodeling our kitchen and have initially picked out maple cabinets with a husk cease and then the isle would be briarwood finish since my husband does not like white or painted cabinets. Floor is yet to be agreed upon. What color for walls would yous recommend? We have Mountain Brume light-green now and my family is sick of information technology.
1. Hi Alison, thank you for your annotate. I think this is far also specific for me to be able to offer advice via a comment. I would need to see actual samples or photographs that y'all took of the woods finishes besides as countertops, backsplash and flooring in society to recommend a specific paint color. I always pick the paint color final, and so you should wait until you take the rest of your finishes selected before you lot try to pick 1. Especially the floor and countertops.
Hi,
I have an entry hallway with oak trim (information technology's throughout the whole firm) with night wood floors. It'south a yellowy cream color now (the same throughout house also). I don't heed it but wanted to add colour. My merely business organisation is the hall has one side of more often than not doors (a bathroom door, cupboard, and bi-folding washer and dryer) which are white. The hall ends at a breakfast nook. Delight give me some advice considering I'm truly torn at whether I should pigment or not.
In the 2d moving-picture show. with the staircase
Do you lot know the wall color ?
1. I looked at the photos on Houzz. Several people have asked, but the architect has not responded.
I have honey oak cabinets and trim. I would similar to paint my open up living room and kitchen gray to update my home. I have hunter light-green countertops that will have to stay for at present. Do you recollect mindful grey or worldly gray would work all-time?
Any thoughts on how Benjamin Moore White Sand would look with honey oak cabinets and trim? We want to paint our dark tan family unit room a lighter neutral color. I've tried Manchester Tan, which didn't become with our fireplace brick, and Edgewood Grey, which I liked with the fireplace, but didn't seem to catamenia with the other neutral pigment colors in our house. Whatever aid would be appreciated!
Jillian, I encounter this original post dates back a few years and yet your answers are very helpful and pertinent today as I try to effigy out paint colour(s) for the habitation nosotros will before long motion into, which has all honey oak trim and cabinets. I accept painted a few samples on the walls and you lot are right near the grays with green undertones. I have written down some of your paint suggestions and volition take them into consideration. My question relates to the chiffonier hardware and a possible backsplash color. Currently they have a darkened brass decorative 3″ pull with a bronze backplate. This looks ok with the cabinets merely I want a "face lift". The faucets are chrome and our appliances are white. What exercise you lot suggest?
1. How-do-you-do Elsie, I'grand glad you found the advice helpful! With the oak cabinets, I practise similar night bronze equally an option, merely not so much with chrome. If you could switch your faucet to stainless steel, that would be much more neutral. Black is generally a good option to coordinate with chrome.
  
  If you're going to ignore the chrome for now, which is fine as long as y'all don't accept chrome lighting also, the nighttime statuary would work well. Top Knobs also has a end called Sable that I really beloved…it'south a really dark bronze, nigh black, but it doesn't accept whatever copper rub through. Satin or polished nickel would also expect really pretty against the oak.
Hullo,
Your site has been very helpful. Hoping I tin go some paint colour suggestions. I have beloved Barrazati kitchen cabinets (orange tone)and beige backsplash and porcelain tile floor. I too have blackness counter tops. We prefer to stay abroad from any green paints. Can you recommend any Benjamin Moore paint colours that volition go well with the above?
Hi Jillian. I have beloved oak cupboards and trim. I would like to pigment my walls Behr Allabaster and cupboards a sea foam green with a hint of grey and get out trim oak. Countertops newer white corian with a very faint swirl of greyness/tan. Your thoughts?
Hi! Cheers for all the helpful info. I accept a smallish bedroom with honey oak furniture. I'm thinking a green colour or a navy blue. Do you have whatever suggestions? Thanks.
1. Hi Kathleen – I like to simply utilise true colors if they're going to be repeated in something else in a room like bedding or art work, a material on a pillow, or an surface area rug. Otherwise, they tin can feel a picayune off. I oasis't specified whatsoever really need colors for walls in quite a while, but I know Unhurt Navy is a popular deep blueish. Sherwin Williams Naval is also a dainty nighttime blue I've considered for cabinetry.
Hi! Looking at White Pigeon for my textured walls (southwest Mediterranean dwelling house) and I have orangish toned trim. I see many say it's recommended for trim, do yous similar it on walls? And with warm fixed elements? Thx!
1. I actually painted my whole house in White Dove, and I retrieve it looks bully in the areas where I still have oak trim and cabinets.
i have house total of beloved oak trim and cabinets, AND dining room floor. i want to repaint the dining room, i was thinking more than of a bluish, but reading reviews information technology sounds i should do a green grey bluish. assist! in a mag i saw benjamin moore woodlawn bluish, that was pretty, i just don't desire it to await to baby bluish or body of water green. i tend to like darker colors just at the same time our house is lacking in sunlight. So…, thoughts???
I would similar to paint my kitchen in either yellow or blue. I have honey oak cabinets. Can you suggest some colors
Thank you
I also take beloved oak kitchen cabinets which really demand to be resurfaced. I am attempting to do this myself. I've really liked the blue/green/grey color (similar oceanside). I'chiliad thinking of keeping the elevation cabinets the honey oak and painting the lesser and island with the oceanside. They are separated. I would too leave my side cabinets untouched as they are newer and in improve condition with the oak. Do you think this combo would look good? I have searched for a honey oak stain, but cannot observe it by that proper name. Would you know the current color name? Would it exist summer oak, or butterscotch oak..depending on the make?
I don't know if you can stand up one more than question :)… I'm painting an accent wall behind two twin beds with love oak headboards. The wall will be a gallery wall with thrifted frames (film big, medium, small…gilded, thick, sparse, etc, eclectic— balanced with fill-in black ikea frames) filled with photos. I want a dark wall but can't go too dark because of the black (thin) frames. Thoughts?
1. It depends on so many other things similar your bedding and your rug or floor colour. However, without that data, I'd probably get with a nighttime neutral with a greenish undertone or some warmth to it. Like Sherwin-Williams Iron Ore for example. It'due south super nighttime merely warmer than blackness.
I call back that "antiquity" past Benjamin Moore is very close to the lovely color in the first kitchen photos. We are planning to utilise information technology in our new abode that has a lot of love oak.
I have Early American oak cabinets and trim throughout my house. I am updating my kitchen and wanted to paint my cupboards a blue-gray but don't know if it will alloy with my oak trim and table. Can you please advise?
I have a house with honey oak wood throughout the entire house…cabinets, wood trim, and all doors. I'd like to paint All of the ceilings throughout the house a shade of white, and all walls the aforementioned color, one that will compliment the dear oak wood. Will you please recommend what color of paint would expect best on the walls, and what colour hard surface flooring I can cull? The business firm has lots of natural sunlight.
Hi! I am late to the game but am correct at present repainting my 1980s Kansas Metropolis area business firm and leaving the honey oak forest paneling in the living room, bookshelf in the den and trim/doors in several adjacent rooms. I wish I would have found your blog sooner as I have been disturbing over what pigment and floor colors volition lucifer. We ended up with SW Creamy in the den (I will paint my living room the aforementioned, leaving the love oak trim, if my husband ever lets me…) and SW Crisp Linen in the hallways and kitchen. The one-time is in the same line equally Sheet Tan but lighter. I love how rich information technology looks. The latter is very calorie-free and is slightly yellow in low light (looks more khaki in a very sunny room) just still quite "crisp" and "clean" which makes the honey oak pop without adding to the orangey-ness. p.southward., We ended upward with a red/orange/brown colored walnut flooring (LVP). I expect forward to checking your weblog for more great ideas!

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