I found a pic on facebook, I think, where a guy painted his windshild surround the same color. It looked pretty good. One thing to consider is that the strakes, grill,wheels, surround and door handles all blend together to balance out the trim on the car. Start covering up or painting and you disrupt the eyeflow. I ended up in this position and now I am painting my door handles red and then there will be no more factory silver on the car.

I painted my surround but missed the color match by a shade, it looked OK but in my opinion, leave them silver or get the chrome overlay, I love mine!!

Pooly