Stripped pine doors yay or nay?

[bumbez]

Dh is currently decorating dds room and about to start on skirting but has asked if we should have all our doors dipped in which case he won't paint her door. I'm undecided we had stripped doors in our last house ( Edwardian) done by previous owner and I really liked them but wonder if it's a bit dated.

Our house is Victorian and chocca with original features, the doors look good and solid and even have little draught excluders over the key holes. We would only do doors though not skirting or door surround .

No, no and no again. We have stained wood doors in our house that we hate but we can't paint them because the stain bleeds through. In a Victorian house they would originally have been painted anyway.

I think it's going out of fashion, but having said that if you like it do it anyway you can always paint later if you change your mind.

If you want to be true to the period doors should be grained (fake hardwood effect) or painted.

Nay

We aren't really being true to the period as the colours are too dark for my taste- our predecessors had been and I hate nearly every colour. I liked the doors in the house before - they were waxed not stained and very little maintenance- all the paintwork on the doors here are now chipped, so I think we will try dipping one and see.

Thanks for the replies - I'm not very trendy anyway [ grin]