White skirting boards and door frames with oak doors and flooring?? I need convincing

[accidentalchickenkeeper]

Currently converting our shippon barn. According to our builders white woodwork is the way forward, no one has wooden skirting boards etc anymore

I can't help but think this will look odd, but I've been told it looks really good.

Any thoughts please?

perhaps they are planning to fit mdf or some other non-wood skirting.

We have white skirting boards, but we also have white oak floorboards and gray walls (our main bedroom) and I like the look.

It's a lovely contrast. Too much wood can be very oppressive.

I wouldn't I currently have white frames and skirting ect with unstained unpainted natural pine door in our house we recently brought they look so odd I would go one way or the other all matching with the way you prefer.

I wouldn't I currently have white frames and skirting ect with unstained unpainted natural pine door in our house we recently brought they look so odd I would go one way or the other all matching with the way you prefer.

what piglet says. the wood ones will be more expensive.

however, I have seen it and it looks fine. you could nosey around rightmove, bound to be examples of both styles on show

We have white skirtings/architraves and oak doors and floors. It looks pretty normal to me.

We have white skirting boards and white door and window frames with stained doors in our rented house. I dont like it.

we have that and I love it; splashed out on some really lovely oak doors and they are set off very nicely against the white woodwork

Thanks for all your opinions. Really appreciate it.

Depends on the style but I've seen it look very nice, we often put in oak doors with white woodwork on projects. If done badly it can look awful though.

If you have the choice I would go for all oak. Definitely. Looks really good
We have white door frames and skirting upstairs as it wasn't possible to change them easily and all oak downstairs where it is all new.
The oak skirting and architrave is veneered which is much cheaper than solid oak and looks really good.

I think it might be more tricky to fit? Could that be why they are suggesting white?
Oh and go for sealed wood if poss. Ours is unsealed and any water on it gives me nearly a panic attack as they are prone to warping. And check they leave the correct spacing around the outside. Floors also need to be exactly level or it will 'bounce' (bitter experience here!)

I like that look.
I want to do that in our new house, but that's a 1930's semi.

When I think of barn conversions though, I imagine big fat oak wooden bits.

My issue with white wood work is the gloss/paint chipping off!!!

Sealed oak wood very low maintenance.

I have white woodwork with walnut as I think too much wood is a bit pub/hotel looking. If you look at American homes they all have white woodwork. Ours is mdf painted with eggshell, it doesn't chip the way gloss does

Go wooden it takes no looking after and never needs painting.

untreated wood does absorb a lot of dirt, so even if you don't mind the colour changes from oxidisation and sunlight, I would suggest either a matt/satin varnish, or an oil finish. Some veneered surfaces are not suitable for oil, there seems to be a risk that it will lift or attack the glue.

If the colour does not match, you can use (lighter) colours of Colron or similar to blend and equalise the colour of the different pieces before varnishing.

I'm upgrading my white 6 panel doors to oak veneer shaker style ones. I'm changing my architrave and skirting but sticking to white because I prefer it. I'm having engineered oak flooring laid and a matching architrave and skirting will be too old fashioned imo. Admit to being overly influenced by the ton of home interiors mags that I devour in the name of research.

Apologies for regurgitating this but I thought I'd throw my tuppence worth in. I know after our engineered flooring was put in I thought I would have white as a contrast to the flooring but after consideration and some professional advice we went for oak with natural finish product to complement our flooring.

I googled a bit online and something like this was what we used www.toolsandtimber.co.uk/Oak_Skirting_and_Architrave_cat3_219

We have this downstairs. It looks lovely. I think oak skirting/architrave would be too much (FIL was trying to persuade me to go with that instead). Lots of people do have wooden skirting boards though.

I suspect PigletJohn is right that the builders are planning on using MDF skirting instead of wood.