Is white gloss outdated.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

I have always preferred white gloss on all my woodwork like door frames and skirting boards etc.
But while surfing the web I have seen lots of people doing trim in different colour or the same colour of the wall. Is it classed as outdated.

White skirting boards, even if interior doors are 90s dark brown?
Hopefully we are being repainted next year.

And what about the area around the brown doors?

Not sure about gloss (although I love gloss kitchens) but white will never go out of fashion. Grey will, give it a few years.

It is not durable enough. I tried to steam clean it and I destroyed it. I am not sure what I will go for next. It has to withstand my brutal, super powerful steam cleaner though.

I like the sound of your steam cleaner would you recommend it where did you get it from please ?

Sod getting rid of gloss on walls or painting over later when the fashion ends
Its not even designed for walls is if , can't see too many painters using it on a wall in their own houses

I used water base gloss or eggshell as hate the yellowing
We have mostly white although in couple rooms grey gloss an white walls which looks nice but touching up skirting not so easy

Gloss is awful, I’ve always hated it! We have white satinwood or eggshell downstairs, can’t remember which. The staircase is dark grey and the upstairs woodwork is light grey, slightly darker than the grey/off white colour of some of the walls in our bedroom.
I generally prefer natural wood or coloured skirting, but then I don’t subscribe to the white ceiling paint job either.

The previous tenants in my current house used gloss on the walls, to be fair it quite satisfyingly peels off.

I don’t think it’s outdated but I went with satin because white gloss yellows over time. Also it shows up every tiny imperfection in the wood. Satin’s much more forgiving if your skirting boards are not in perfect nick.

I'd personally say white could never go out of style, however the glossy finish isn't as popular as it was, even I think it looks horrid in many cases, shows up every imperfection and gives a cheap feel. I've recently seen a lot of people painting their usual white gloss areas in either a matte finish or a bold colour. A friend of mine renovated his house and painted all his doors, door frames and skirting boards in a matte black, it actually looks very nice and doesn't make the house look small or weird, if we renovated our property I'd probably do something similar just because of how nice it looked.

Gloss is awful for discolouring and a pain to get brushes clean afterwards. White or off white satinwood. I wash down the skirting boards quite regularly and the satinwood is fine.

I love gloss on door trims and skirting boards. Who cares what somebody's decorator thinks?? We have very thick walls and mullion windows, gloss on the window sils helps bounce more light into the rooms. I find it easier to wipe down than eggshell or satin. Ours hasn't gone remotely yellow. Can't say I'd paint a full wall with it though.

We had satinwood but currently repainting in gloss as we redo rooms. Satinwood is much more difficult to keep clean than gloss. Always white here

Found the satinwood discoloured just the same of not quicker than gloss

@Honeyroar
If you don’t have eggshell, only gloss, you don’t know the properties of eggshell for wood. It’s very difficult to damage snd light bounces off the very bright whites. It’s no different to gloss in that respect. It’s so much easier to use and if you look at F&B, there are lots of whites.

OP: gloss is dated and difficult to use. eggshell is way better.

Hate painting it on but love the final look, here is a pic of our lounge we've done and I love the finish gloss gives!

Water based satinwood does discolour really quickly but solvent based satinwood doesn't.

@Unicorn2022
F&B eggshell doesn’t discolour at all. Not one but. It’s water based and very stable in colour. Cheaper paints don’t have the same properties.

@iusedtohavechickens
I have similar fire surround and built in cupboards in eggshell. I know what I prefer! A flat white finish is beautiful. Each to
their own. We don’t do all over grey though.

Isn't it the other way round? I know oil based glosses have been notorious for yellowing quickly since they were reformulated to reduce the VOC content.

I assumed the fact that the gloss market was dominated by oil based paints until fairly recently was a big part of the reason so many people (including posters on this thread) associate gloss with yellowing. In fact I think the water based glosses should be fine - just as the water based satin finish should!

Yes @CasperGutman you are probably right - certainly one of them lasts for no time at all before yellowing and also chips off easier too. I hadn't even realised there were different types until a few years ago.

Painting a wall in gloss is asking for trouble, especially in an old house where the walls need to breathe. It also looks awful- like landlord-painted-anaglypta from the 1980s.
I have some of that to get off here, and it's a ?#* nightmare.

Spirit based gloss or eggshell tends to yellow. I just allow for that when I choose the colour. I prefer spirit based paints for woodwork, you need a bit more skill to put it on, but if you have that skill, it's very much faster to put on, and gives a better finish, than water based paints do. As it is thinner when put on properly, it maintains the crispness of the woodwork mouldings, and panels on doors, better, and on flat surfaces like window ledges if you know what you're doing you can get a finish as smooth as glass, as it flows and levels during the drying process in a way that water based paints just can't.
Here I have gone for for Dulux Timeless in spirit based Trade satinwood- looks white at first glance, but is softer and more sympathetic to wall colours, as it hasn't got that harsh Persil/Brilliant White look. It's still white enough to go with greens, blues and other cold colours, but it's warm enough to go with creams and warmer colours like dusky pinks. (The satinwood 'mattish' finish takes a few days to develop, it looks gloss at first.)

This.

No I do have some eggshell that a decorator decided to use when I'd asked for gloss. The light really doesn't bounce off anywhere near as much imo,

I like white gloss, bounces light around the room. I use water based gloss though, never yellows. Its the oil based ones that do.