Those look great! No need to change them!

Very well done. Huge impact on that hallway. Now has great architectural interest and looks very high-end.

Wow, what a change! Nicely done!

That is exactly what I thought, do not need to replace them!!!!! :)

Wow they look beautiful! Great job. :)

Those look amazing! The molding really dressed them up as well! Great job!

Big improvement, that's great!!!

"I did not like my flat yellow boring doors". Now their boring with no character. Looks like the house from the movie beetlejuice now. Great idea about the trim on the door. But their still cheap hollow doors. But it fits a modern house perfectly. Everything looks kinda nice, but everything is made out of cheap trash.

This is something I would have done to sell the house. Now that your happy with the way it looks, your less likely to actually change the doors now. They might look nice to you now but the quality aspect will alway be there. They feel cheap as hell when you close them. Before the house I live in now, I had hollow doors. Now that I have solid ones, I can never imagine going back.

I really can’t see how you could have bought all that trim for $75 unless you own a millwork company and milled it yourself. I see about 120 ft of the panel moulding, 40ft of casing, new baseboards and that upper pediment. Did you mean $75.00 per door?

dark trim and paint for all the doors only was about $75. the white trim is about $20? per door, (I really did not count the cost, it was cheap since I did all the work myself) but it is permanent. The doors however meant to be temporary, as long as it needs to be, until I am ready to buy solid wood doors.

Well here in Canada just a gallon of that paint would run you $60 plus tax so that would leave you less than $ 15.00 for 120 feet of panel moulding that generally costs at least a dollar a foot. You must be a pretty smart shopper to pull that off.

You did a great job with your budget. The finished result looks much more pensive even if you spent $75 per door. But then again Tony says I have no taste. ;)

“Expensive”

Tony, I am not trying to pretend my doors will compare to solid wood ones. but I wanted quick and cheap solution for the yellow ugly ones. it was cheap, but not quick. :) anyway, I can live with my dark doors much happier than with original doors. as I mentioned in my original post, I am planning to replace them with solid ones, but not now

the paint was about $30 a gallon at Menards. I have used more than half, three coats after primer. the dark trim was about .75 per linear ft. little bit of glue, a lot of 23ga pin nails. could it be better with more expensive paint? probably.

@Itrimit, Even if a couple of hundred was spent total, that is still very cheap. a couple of hundred more for solid primed doors. Now if it was all done in oak, you'd be looking close to $1,500-$2,000 depending on what moulding you get. This is why painted crap is popular. Cause its dirt cheap. The original wood in the original picture was not oak. It was pine. Just as cheap as painted garbage.

Great job

Beautifully done! Here in Ohio, materials and paint do not cost as much as it does in other areas. It just depends on where you live!

It looks great! Good job.

Ignore the snark...what a crummy thing for that person to write. You did a great job and the new casing and deep colir adds great interest and character. Congrats!

Those look better by a landslide. What was an eyesore now looks fabulous. Great job

I am so over Tony Montana. Nobody cares about your glorious solid doors or any other novela you post ripping everybody else to shreds while you lather yourself in praise and glory. It’s clear your the type who knows what he likes and that’s all fine and well. It’s also clear that you want everyone else on this forum to know it too. That’s fine too, I myself and everyone I’m sure likes to be appreciated for their knowledge at times.
The problem with you Tony Montana is that your so desperate for this recognition that you feel the need to tear everyone else down. You are so enthralled in your own pathetic agenda that you have lost the delicacy to see how your agenda impacts others.

The man said he COULD NOT stand looking at it any longer. He said solid door were not in his current budget. How does spending a mere 75 bucks cheapen it for resale? If he never installs solid doors down the road, would not the same hollow doors he always had still be better from any vantage point now that have lovely trim and fresh paint?

Good God you are annoying. I would pay 75 bucks to enclose you in a small box made of solid doors so you couldn’t post jackass comments. Even if you were only in there an hour it would be money well spent.

WOW, great work! The doors and the trim look amazing. Is this your first DIY project?

P.S. Check out some of our renovations to get your inspired for your future projects.

dallison_dawson I'm not trying to come across as being mean, nor did I ever say this was a bad job. I think its already established that it did not cost only $75 to do this. more like $150-$200 + labor. Obviously they are not gonna buy new wood doors. Solid primed doors are not expensive at all. $40-$70 depending on the size, cheaper if you just buy the slab. Cheaper still if you wait for a sale. Instead of the trim, they could have bought 2 doors right there. So whats a few hundred more? Why not just wait till you get a few hundred bucks more then get the doors and save yourself double the work? For someone thats on a tight budget to begin with, I think this would have been the smarter path rather than spending more in the long run. Maybe decisions like this is how they got to be on a tight budget in the first place.

Fantastic idea and beautifully done! They look great :)

Since I'm in Canada, prices here are higher, but a slab solid primed door 30x80 is over $110, and a solid pine door of the same size is over $130. I have the horrible 1980's doors that will not hold paint, no matter what you do to them. The matching trim is the vinyl wrapped crap. I wish I could do this with my doors!

I think they look fantastic and far more expensive and interesting than the original.

Very nice!