Interior Trim

Interior trim, the woodwork in a house that finishes doors, windows, edges, and corners, was a cinch to pick five years ago. "Oak was about it," says Wayne Eisen, a salesman at Stock Building Supply. "Take doors. You could upgrade from plain to four-panel or six-panel. In oak."

Now options include maple, cherry, knotty pine, oak (of course) and, for painted doors, composites. Doors come with raised panels or flat panels and with one, two, three, four, five or six panels, and there are panel designs as well. "The options don't cost a fortune either."

You can get molding to match your doors or complement them. "People are mixing trims now: Painted doors and maple or cherry molding or a cherry door, painted woodwork and maybe a hickory floor. It has to be the right combination and when it is, you get a nice complementary look."

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