Hi, Can you provide some more info? eg shadowlines being used? If you add timber to the reveal you create an edge detail (visible join between timber and plaster) that needs to be either covered with an architrave, or the plaster really well edged with a corner bead that needs to be straight and square. Corners are the key. It's a detail that with the right trades (and $$) that can look stunning if you get it right but if not can look really ordinary. Alternatively, we have done (painted) timber reveals on a project some years ago with the plaster/gyprock butting up to it with a negative detail (P50 Rondo shadowline) all around. Looked great as part of an overall theme that included all the door frames and recessed skirting with shadowlines above them as well like the below image. In the pic below you can see around the timber door frame and the ceiling. In the bedroom beyond you can just make out the skirting. These walls were mostly brick and render (gyprock no problem at all) so getting it right was about taking the time to do it. Simplest solution for cost, the black frame would be the feature and let the plaster and timber all intersect with it. Cheers

Your window gives you great extra light and once the garden is planted quite a lovely view.. Still hoping that you will look into sliding exterior panels/shutters so that you will still have the light and outlook from your kitchen cheers From Bunnings https://www.bunnings.com.au/hartman-pacific-white-aluminium-exterior-shutter-track-kit_p1142186

luckily this shouldn't cause any major structural or safety issues and, even if it had been done "correctly" there would still have been some narrow cut tiles across the doorway so why not just add a row of tiles across the whole strip as a textural feature if you have matching tiles or a colourful feature in matching thickness different colour tiles or fill the gap with concrete stained or painted to tone with either the door or the floor or you could try a strip of wood but it may be difficult to cut a long narrow piece of wood thin and strong enough to survive the heavy traffic in a doorway although a piece of quad or scotia timber moulding or the curved edge cut off a piece of MDF skirting might be OK if sealed well...but hope everything else has worked out well for you

Hi Donna. I’m asking myself that same question; trying to work out if it will really matter, and if I do decide to paint the outside, where do I stop? And will I be creating a maintenance nightmare in years to come. It’s not immediately obvious that the internal and external parts are different colours. I notice. Others don’t. You can see the diff when you’re at an angle, but you have to be looking for it. And who stares at your window frames? People are usually looking outside, beyond the frame. Excuse the mess and half finished paint job, but these pics may give you an idea of what to expect. It’s more obvious on the sliding door, but only when close up and from an acute angle. This will look dramatically better when I finish painting the door frame.