Painting Wood Baseboards & Trim
Hear me out! I am usually against painting wood, especially since our house is almost 100 years old and beautiful. BUT 80% of the trim was painted by previous owners. Only the two front rooms are unpainted. For resale's sake (and my everything has to match sanity) should I paint the trim in the two front rooms? I would also have to paint a built-in buffet and bookshelf. In a perfect world, we would strip the paint off the back of the house but we're selling in a year or so and it's just not worth it. There are many old craftsman homes like ours in the neighborhood and every one I've seen has white trim with contrasting wall colors. I'm torn! Help!!
EDIT!
I've already decided against painting the trim. That leads to another question. When they painted the rooms (an off white color) they also painted the small section of trim along the doors and windows that's adjacent to the wall. We would need to strip that, wouldn't we? We can't have wood trim, an inch of off white paint, then grey/green/whatever walls. There are so many products out there, can someone recommend something fairly low toxic that works well? THANK YOU!