Pine is usually painted as it does not stain well. Are you painting or staining?

Personally, I would NOT do pine doors with oak trim.... I have six panel solid oak doors myself.

We had planned on staining them, but didn't know if they would match up properly with the oak trim. I'm not sure if the oak doors would be too dark or not( we want to have a pretty contemporary look), but we would definitely like to stay away from the white hollow-core doors that you find in the big home supply stores.

Trying to get pine stained to match oak is so difficult as to be not worth trying. A recipe of several stains for the pine will have to be discovered---and that takes a lot of trial and error. I have attempted that three different times and was not happy with any of the results.

Actually, those white big box doors can be stained/painted/textured and matched to a particular decor much more readily that mixing pine/oak. Matching the white door to darker wood is probably easier than lighter finishes, but there are some gel stains that act much like paint and might be worth exploring.

If you can stain pine and 1)get the stain to look even and 2)get it to match the oak trim, you'd be bigger than a super hero in my book. I recently did a ton of staining, pine double hung windows, and what seemed like miles of oak trim. I will never ever ever spend time staining pine again.

If you are going to go with oak, save your nickels and go with oak doors. You will be soooooo much happier!

I just replaced ,my interior doors in my 1950's home! Two days ago!!!!!! Try this...look on craigslist in your area and you might find 6 panel oak doors! I just found 5 of them for 50.00!!!!10.00 each! Then I did not have to replace the trim at all! I only had to move the precut hinges on my trim to match the new doors! Otherwise...I suggest using the OAK 6 panel doors...at Home Depot here (MN) they were 130.00! Then you can leave the trim and your job is a TON easier! You can buy the doors without "pre-hung" -just the door! They may have even been only 100.00 each! This way you can stain them to match perfect...have a custom stain match at a paint store! If you go with the pine you will need to replace the trim as well or it will look different...you will spend about as much on the pine door and trim as you would just hte door in oak! Hope this helps! SUGGESTION: the chisel was a huge help!

It's really not a matter of matching the stains so much as a mis match of the grains of the species.No matter how hard you try, pine is not going to match up with oak. Some species do go well together when mixing woods, but pine and oak are not one of them ,imho.Rdubow has given good advise. We have had good luck on ebay as well!

after about a year of searching for interior doors to replace our cheap hollow doors, we decided to get the jeld-wen pro core doors and paint them in a whiteish color. We did a remodel to our 70's ranch with maple floors and cabs in kitchen and the cost and pain of staining maple along with the mismatched and too traditional look of oak doors, caused our decision, after much headache, to go with white doors and trim...