Painting stair banisters and railings

[Wattonearth]

Need to paint stair railings, banisters and door frames in my hallway. I want to stick with white as we are having green on the walls but having never done anything like this before I’m don’t know where to start. I want to move away from gloss as this has all yellowed throughout the hallway. But I’m worried about satinwood- will it be durable in a busy area? Can anyone recommend any brands? Dulux and johnstones do a hard wearing satin wood and it’s cheap and then I’ve looked at little green and they do intelligent satin wood but is very expensive in comparison? Is it worth it do you really get what you pay for? I’ve got a 3 & 6 yr old so definitely want a hard wearing version. Welcome any experience or expertise!

Our hallway is quite dark so I did gloss, it reflects the light much better. Not sure it wasn't a mistake but it's still a lot lighter 4 years in.

I think we are going brilliant white satinwood for ours dulux, gone off gloss paint we are also doing white satinwood for our new doors we have bought

Satinwood is fine. If you have a Brewers nearby get trade quality Dulux from there.

Following this as about to do the same thing and ours too are very yellow. We havnt long moved in. Are you going to paint straight over the current paint or sand down? I wasn’t sure. Ours already looks like it’s caked with many layers as it is!

Thanks for your replies I will look into the trade Dulux. I am going to sand down to take the shine off the gloss but not all the way back to the wood. I read this will help the new paint stick. I’ve never decorated before so hoping this will be enough.

@Wattonearth sounds sensible. Good luck!

Note that any imperfections (gouges/scrapes etc.) that are visible now will not be fixed by a lick of paint.

I think best practice is to sand down to give a key for the paint, fix/fill imperfections, prime if required. Light Sand, paint, light sand, paint.

Make sure to clean between each stage.
Sugar soap at the start will remove any grease which would prevent paint sticking even with sanding.

I did ours in satinwood a couple of years ago. It took ages, but looks so much better than the nasty orange pine that was there before. However, the satinwood paint has chipped badly in places and I will need to do it again soon. Next time I think I'll gloss as I think it's harder wearing.