To hate my new build orangey doors?

I don't think doors like yours will paint well - you'd be better off selling them and buying what you really like. I agree they're a strange colour and style, not my taste at all.

If you can find out exactly what brand and style they are you can probably make a bit of money from selling them, as people might be looking for replacements.

Don't get the cheapo hollow white doors to replace though, they won't feel as nice. Go to a builder's merchant and look at all their doors, and get something solid wood. It will be expensive but worth it when you feel pleased every time you open or close a door.

You want to get rid of your oak veneer doors and have painted mdf? Really?

I have doors similar to yours and they have darkened a bit as they’ve aged.

I'm with PPs that your doors are good quality doors and will look nasty if you attempt to paint them.

It would be better to sell them and replace them, but it won't be cheap. Approx £110 each plus fitting can be another £100.

I'd try to learn to love them. They will mellow over time.

I’ve got the orangey doors in my house. They’re heavy oak. I’ve just accepted them as not being the cheap white ones

You can buy doors like the white one in your pic. I have them. I expect people either specced them when they bought their house or have replaced the entire door since moving in.

(My pic will appear after review… it’s also dark and murky here but my door is exactly the same as the one you posted.)

But it’s a cosmetic choice and you’re fine to have a preference. It will be a lot of work to sand, prep/prime and get a perfect smooth finish if you paint all the doors in your house. If I was that bothered I would buy new ones. You’d still need to do the door frames though, I assume they are oak like the doors?

Edit to add: As PP have said my doors look lovely and do not look cheap at all but they ARE hollow and yours look better quality.

There are different doors on the development because the ones with the white doors will be a lower specification - they will be white mdf hollow core. What you have is solid timber and more expensive and an upgrade option or only installed in house types over a certain size / price / number of bedrooms

no I wouldn’t paint them. They will chip and the maintenance on them will be time consuming and they will look cheap

if you don’t like them I’d remove them (sell them!) and have new ones installed - cheaper than removing every door and priming and painting them

ThI’m a looks awful and cheap

I have these doors in my house and love them. I used a matt natural oil on them. Mine do not look orange, they look like oak. You can get some cheapish ones (usually the white ones), but mine are heavy, and are engineered oak, they cost hundreds of pounds each. You'd be committing a crime to oak to paint them.

You're meant to reoil them every so often anyway, so if you don't like them, either try sanding and using a different oil on them OR get them removed, sell them to someone who will appreciate them, then replace them with the cheap MDF crap.

Sand down and stain, that’ll look so much nicer than painting them - I personally don’t like the example photos you’ve given of them painted. If you like it though go for it it’s your home, but sanding and staining will be a lot more nicer and paint quickly becomes outdated/tacky in a few years

I am not a fan of the ‘orangy’ wood shades, but I disagree with the PP’s who said you can’t paint them easily. It’s your house OP, and you can absolutely do what you like to the doors - doesn’t matter whether they were really expensive. I have used Frenchic Al Fresco paint on various projects, and it’s fantastic stuff. No need to sand, just wash the doors to ensure they are free from any greasy fingerprints or dust, and away you go. A lovely soft, matte finish. It’s not cheap, but it goes a long way. I painted a fair sized table and four chairs with 2 coats, and only used a third of a 500ml tin.
I painted outside plastic drain pipes with this paint four years ago, and they still look great.

I agree they look really orange and I wouldn’t want to live with them either. I’d sand and stain. Start out on the back of one that’s rarely closed as your tester xxx

Vinyl wrap them, then if you don't like how they look you can just peel it back off?

Not helpful, but I really like them as they are!

I would sand them down as I think it the vanish that's giving the orange hue. Use a Scandinavian matt/clear vanish will give a natural finish

It’s your house so if you don’t like them, 100% change them! Life’s too short to live with doors you don’t like. Personally I think a stain might look better than painting, so a really good sand then just buy a stain suitable for interior wood (ask people at a diy shop to point you in the right direction) and follow the instructions on the tin. ChatGPT is really helpful for giving brand reccomedations and tips for use. If you’ve got any hallway cupboards with doors like these maybe try it on the inside of one to test you are happy with the finish before doing more of the doors like that. Good luck!

Strip the varnish and go for a darker stain.

I am sorry but honestly you are going to struggle hard to achieve this as a DIY project.
Professionals can do it bit it will cost £££

I totally understand your stance on "i don't love these doors" i dont love them either tbh but they are clearly high quality... I had this with several things in my house (notably the imo fucking awful dark brown wood effect built in wardrobes in the master that cost 5k!?!?!) I was adamant i could NOT live with them...
in my case i looked at wrapping them / ripping them out etc but ended up "working with it" we did the walls a mid dark muted green (playing card green i think?) and now i think the wardrobes are nice/okay and I saved myself a tonne of cash and time

My advice would be to get colour swatches and get wall colours that go with the doors instead of pushing greys which will look weird.
Otherwise you are looking at prep prime and paint on what? 9+ doors???
Its madness!

Your mid option is sand and restain...
Bit I'd decorate to harmonise the doors.

Whatever you decide please do update this thread though

That door is oak. It’s very very unlikely to be solid oak. Even if the door is heavy it is most likely to be engineered wood with oak veneer. Solid oak doors would be £400-£600+ whereas veneered would be a quarter of the cost.

This means you could give it a light sanding to prime it for paint, but if you sand it too much you will go through the veneer. Paining could be problematic because the 2+ costs of paint it would need would thicken the door to the point that it might not close.

As others have said, change the doors. Ones similar to the one you like in your second picture are available for about £100 each. You could sell your old doors and make a profit.

Agree that they are awful. But, unless your house was ££££££, they won’t be solid wood, they’ll be veneered and yes you can absolutely paint them. Ideally you need to remove them, properly prep and paint them and get a joiner to rehang. Much cheaper than replacing them.

Blimey don't touch them they're just different. Try to go with it. Theyre modern and attractive.

I'd stain them a lighter colour, get rid of the orange - watch some you tube videos on how to do it and before/after looks

You don’t have panels on your doors, yours are just flat so might look very plain when painted

That's not stained, it's paint.