To swap the doors out or not....

[P.J. Hankins]

That is the question.

So this may sound like a simple question but it's got me somewhat stumped.

I love the look of 6 panel interior doors, I just think they dress up a house. Most of the properties I've been looking at\working with are older homes, built in the mid to late 70s. Common to all of them are the flat surface hollow core doors. BOOOOORING! A lot of times I'll see homes where the trim has been replaced with nice white painted baseboards and door casings, but the flat boring doors are still there.

So the question is, is it best to switch out boring flat interiors doors with nice 6 panel interior doors or do you just leave them.

Obviously first and foremost is the price point of the home. I can certainly see were doing a change like this could be an over improvement. Conversely I can see were this would be a default upgrade where all it's competition has nicer interior doors.

It's the grey area that I'm wondering about. Does it put my rehab a step ahead of the others, are there better upgrades that can be done that will out shine replacing interior doors....etc.

Let me know your opinion.

[James Gelske]

You could always make your own paneling using molding and shooting it on the door.