How to best paint/protect door frame baseboard?

[CluelessDIYer1]

I don't know what it's called so i've just called it the baseboard. Basically it's the bit i've marked in the red X.

This was all a dark reddy/brown but my wife has insisted on having it all painted white.

My concern here is that with time, walking over that board, things hitting it or whatever etc etc is that the paint will chip & you'll see the reddy-brown underneath & it's going to look horrendous.

I've asked her & she was wanting them glossed. It's Johnstones Aqua water based gloss that we have in.

Do you reckon gloss would take to the baseboard (& protect) perfectly fine or should a specific paint be put on the frame?

How would you knowledgeable folk tackle it?

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• CluelessDIYer1
• 17 Mar 2014
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[gregers]

the x to me looks like a floor board?
the bit in front of it is called the threshold.

 

[CluelessDIYer1]

the x to me looks like a floor board?
the bit in front of it is called the threshold.

Sorry, the image is poor - i should've cleaned up & taken without the flash.

It's certainly not the floor board. It's the same colour as the doors/frames.

If it helps then i can clean it up tomorrow & get you a better photo?

 

[gregers]

yeah may get a better response if you do?

 

[CluelessDIYer1]

Sorry but we have no lighting to the room so i had to power by torch light.

This is taken from the other side. The photo above is from the dining room looking in to the living room. This is the opposite.

You can see the wooden flooboards & then you can see the reddy-browny bit of wood which is where the frame work meets the floor.

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• CluelessDIYer1
• 18 Mar 2014
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• CluelessDIYer1
• 18 Mar 2014
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I'll need to clean it up But hopefully these photo help identify what i'm on about?