Door opinions please

busiscoming2

I know it is personal choice, but would be interested in other people's opinions please:


We are in the process as we redecorate of taking all the skirtings and doorframes back to natural wood, we have already done the open plan stairs and a couple of rooms. All the internal doors are 4 panel white ones. I don't think they can be taken back as they were bought white primed, so probably just MDF.

Don't know whether to leave them white or change them for pine ones? I can't decide if they look ok or not!

Has anyone else done this? and what did you do?

27col

As you say, it's a personal choice so it's up to you to decide whether they look ok or not. I would have thought that white doors in bare wood frames would look peculiar. But then, I would not have bare wood in any case, unless it was a nicely coloured hardwood.
Other people's opinions are irrelevant, it is you that has to spend the money and more importantly, to live with the result.

busiscoming2

27col - I know it is my choice - it just got me thinking as to whether other people think it is a strange concept, or if they have it!

fluffymuffy

We live in a dark house with little windows. I'm keeping my doors white even though we have stained (golden oak?) door frames as I think it helps keep it light. That's a consideration here. I'd like to paint the frames but they don't need any maintenance as they are and will never need doing so I'm reluctant to change that.

foxgloves

Hi, when we moved in, we had a strange mixture of doors, mostly rubbish, so we took them all off & replaced them with 4-panel pine ones. They were quite cheap as we had got so much to do to the house, we weren't able to spend too much on them. They did look very new and 'piney' when we put them on, but I stained them with some brush on wax that you leave, then wipe off and they looked loads better. Still got them, still like them and they need very little maintenance....they get a bit of beeswax on a cloth when I can be bothered. Guess it comes down to personal taste in the end.

busiscoming2

Fluffymuffy & foxgloves - The reason we have taken ours back is so I don't have to paint them or put up with chips out of the paintwork that look really tatty. I think the bare wood is so much nicer looking longterm.

ormus

weve painted our cheap hollow flush brown doors with white paint.
far better. and very MSE too.

latecomer

we're in the process of doing something similar. Ours are all original 1930's Douglas Fir and it looks great once its all been stripped and cleaned up. Its a lot of hard work though and to make matters worse our builder cut a corner off one of the doors so it didn't catch the new stairs rather than taking it off :mad:

I personally wouldn't have white doors with natural wood but again thats very much about personal taste. You could strip all the skirtings and surrounds and then decide whether you like the the white doors or not.

rachbc

Personal taste as you say but pine was never put there to be seen - its a cheap wood intended to be painted and if I had my way thats what I'd do - white wood work looks to much fresher and cleaner than stripped pine to me.