Painting trim usually requires some prep work, such as sanding, taping, etc. Replacing usually costs more. Are you planning on doing this yourself or hiring someone?

You could always try painting the trim in one room to figure out if you like how it looks/how easy it is before committing to doing the whole house.

I was planning on hiring someone to do it. I obtained a few paint quotes and it got me thinking that maybe I should just replace all of the trim instead. I just wasn't sure if there was an advantage to one way or the other.

I suggest you obtain quotes for both, ask them the pros and cons of both since they'll know best, and then make a decision from there.

If it is a standard builder 3" trim I would replace it with something wider and nicer. Photos would help

Thanks for the suggestions. I believe it's 3" trim.

This is the previous owner's furniture. It's all gone, and the window treatments have since been replaced as well.

New trim will always be more durable than painting over stained trim. Painting over the stained trim is usually fine, unless you have a bunch of young kids.

An advantage to painting is that you can do sections at a time rather than having your whole house turned upside down at once. It also saves money to do small areas. I don't know that that advantage would be realized if you're hiring someone though.

It also keeps a lot of perfectly good material out of the landfill, if that's important to you.

Eta: it doesn't necessarily *save* money to do small areas at a time. It just spreads your spending out so lessens the amount of money you spend all at once.

I think you must decide the color of the walls, furniture, etc. before deciding whether or not to paint the trim. Right now the trim looks dull because the walls are white. The trim is not orange, it is wood. If you choose warm wall colors, nice curtains and rugs, warm furniture colors, etc., the room will look different. Or, are you hoping to use gray like everyone else? Gray looks better with white trim but your whole look changes.

We have two homes, one with trim like yours and one with white trim. It makes a big difference. Our main home has the pine trim and feels warm. The white trim is not my preference. As was suggested, I would paint the trim in a bedroom of bathroom and see how you like it. But, decide on wall colors and furniture colors first. Fingers crossed that it isn't black, white, and gray.

Curious as to what you decided and how it turned out ? We bought a home 3.5 years ago with the “honey gold” trim everywhere and worse yet-there is a lot of mismatched trim from the previous owners who built the house back in the late 90’s. I just had a trim carpenter here and said about 4-5K to replace all doors/trim to white and another 9K to replace all trim to white. But he said that’s less expensive than sanding/repairing/staining the existing doors/trim/baseboards and everything would be the same and durable . Seems like a lot of money!