Quick poll about doors if you live in an old house

[ChippyMinton]

Are your internal doors

a) stripped & varnished/waxed or
b) painted?

Can't decide what to go for, so am being nosey. Thanks!

b)painted

But they were like that when we moved here and they aren't the original ones anyway. House isn't old really tbh (very late Victorian)

we are in edwardian terrace and ours are painted white - 4 panelled type ( not original as they are fire doors, replaced with a loft extension) original bare floors

They were original doors, stripped and waxed, and looked gorgeous. Then we moved to a 30s house with cheap nasty modern pine doors. They're going to be painted.
If you've got original doors, I'd definitely recommend a).

mostly painted, two of them stripped
don't think I really like the stripped look, prefer paint

How old is your house, Chippy?

dh has a relative who had all the doors, skirting boards etc repainted by a pofessional company and they used a matt finish not a gloss.

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painted

victorian

Re what mercy says - yes, if you do go for paint just don't use anything shiny. Eeek!

Ours were stripped until we had loft converted then HAD to have white fire doors. Yuck.

House is late Victorian/early Edwardian, the doors are four-panel.

Most are sporting the 'modernised with a sheet of hardboard and layers of gloss' look. They will need to be stripped, filled and sanded before the final finish, whether it is paint or wax. The remaining three have had the centre removed and replaced with georgian wired glass, so I am picking up some stripped originals off ebay to replace them.

We have an Edwardian terrace and the upstairs doors are original, and they're painted.

They would have been painted at the time, apparently. I was reading somewhere that pine doors would have been painted white in that period; I guess the posher houses with lovely oak panelling and doors would have been left unpainted though!

So if you want to keep in period and you are in a smaller semi or terrace then you probably want painted though the fashion nowadays is for stripped. I would love to get ours stripped!

We are now in a 5 year old hose and have six panel painted fire doors which are actually very smart. In are last place (edwardian) we had all the orighal doors and handles and they were also painted..

results so far: 6 painted 3 stripped (i think)

Anyone else?

And while i've got your attention:

wooden knobs (if doors are painted, to match bannister handrail)

or or brass?

oiled

but they are only 2 years old, not original

original ones lost to bad 1970s 'updating'

Stripped and varnished in ~ 500 yr old house.

painted
But in our last place we stripped them back & they were rather lovely
And we have brass knobs, but I'd like to get rid of them - don't go with the rest of our metal-work taste

Victorian property. Are in the process of replacing nasty cheap imitation 4-panel doors with reclaimed original victorian 4-panel ones.

They will be painted. I read somewhere that the victorians liked them painted! Not only that, but we have stripped and varnished floorboards and if we have stripped and varnished doors as well it will feel like living in a log cabin!

Ours are stripped with brass fittings.

painted

Georgian house

Would go for brass handles personally.

ours are painted our house is a victorian vicarage
i like stripped though but am probably in the minority
stripped can look a bit mucky
painted need upkeep - ours are eggshell

stripped and varnished. I couldn't imagine them been painted. We live in a late-victorian house and the doors are the 4 panel ones. They look nice.

We have wooden knobs but I am wanting to replace them with the metal "bee-hive" knobs