Solid timber doors would looks great but would need to be of a good quality.

White on white will look great forever and would be my personal number 1 pick if the solid doors I wanted were out of my budget!

I like the current plain door the same as the kitchen, do you have many others. If painting the room white I would prep the Architrave and skirting and paint to match wall colour , if you wanted you could paint the doors, but I do like to retain something of the eighties character, we live in one with plain timber doors and love it, would save a lot of money as well

I think the timber ones look best followed by the traditional white doors

My vote would have to go to the white doors (panels)!

I agree with keeping the original plain doors. Is there a reason that they need to be replaced, other than looks? Adding doors with mismatched detailing will clash with the style of the house. What about swapping out the door handles? I can only see a standard round handle on the side door, which is making it look old. If you swap them out for clean line lever handles it would make a big difference.

Currently the dark door do look out of place. I am a wood lover myself but the wooden door you have selected look to hard e.g. they remind me of front doors. If you change these doors and these doors lead onto a hall way then all the doors have to match so I would suggest a white door - love the timber surround. I love the look of door picture 4. Question do you need two door in this room?

White panel doors. Change the doors then all those in the hall way would have to be changed to match! I have painted my doors and frames, architraves etc white then applies colour to the walls - lovely! Either moody dark shades or pale and watery colours - both look great with the white trim and doors. And I do NOT like those imitation colonial doors - if you do want paneled doors then track down some genuine vintage ones in a demolition yard!

As long as the current doors are in good condition I would keep them to maintain the character of that period, spend the money else where, you could try new handles cheers

Keep the originals. It always looks strange when houses have bits and pieces replaced with parts from different eras. I have spent many hours and dollars searching for parts for houses to replace things that have been modernised. If you don't like the dark colours I would just sand and paint off white.

Our house might be similar vintage (built 1982, brick exterior with plasterboard walls inside, raked ceilings, parquet flooring, lots of wood and feature slate). We have flat wooden doors upstairs, wood trim, and the same flat but white painted doors and trim downstairs (where bedrooms are and it is darker, so white paint helps lighten the area). One of the first things we did was paint out most of the feature walls to white, which helps highlight the wood trims and doors I think. There is however one set of the traditional 4 panel style doors in wood (probably added in a post-build reno) and they look really out of place, the front door also has the 4 panels, like a Victorian/Colonial look? We are going to change them over to all flat, it is going to be hard to match the wood stain upstairs so might have a painted front door. So we have flat doors everywhere, and I think it works. The only exception is two new interior doors downstairs, which we replaced with doors with 2 glass panes - this is to let light in to a dark passageway, but also matches all the other exterior doors (other than that front door, which we'll replace eventually). Again, we wanted a clean, fuss-free Modernist look to highlight those aspects of the original architecture.

What about trying to remove the varnish from one lot of trim first? If successful you might be able to visualise what you'd like better. Personally I'd go for a flat painted door in a light colour so they don't dominate the room so much.

Change your painting on the wall between the dark doors & this will fit in with the rest of the furniture in the room including the desk - earthy tones in the painting should do it - Just saying

If the doors aren't in the greatest condition, just replace with similar doors in the same style as the old ones. We did up an 80s apartment with a very similar look to yours and replaced the original doors (because the old ones had peeling wood veneer). We painted them white, with white architraves too, and white walls. Made it look very modern, without ruining the original style/architecture.

It's amazing how good bamboo floating floors can look if you want to modernise too. Here's a pic of our apartment finished. We kept some of the original features like exposed brick walls and archways.

The original doors look the best of the lot, even with the dark colour. Sure, they are most likely standard hollow core doors, nothing wrong with that for internal doors. You can repaint them if you like. The white doors in photo #3 look fake and pretentious to me and remind me of so many 90's interiors.

I'm intrigued by the painting. It looks like a vanGough but I don't think it is. Who is the artist?

Anne Salmon, why would you even think of getting rid of that painting? it's perfect for that space!

Georgina, those changes look great, thank you for sharing! I am leaning towards painting the original doors white and replacing the handles.

Hi Daniel, the painting is by Yoko Webster http://www.yokowebster.com/portfolio-items/the-elements-series-1/ and http://www.yokowebster.com/portfolio-items/the-elements-series-2/

So Clare, Yoko is a relative? I am guessing sister in law? Love her art!

Yes, Yoko is my mum, thank you I'll pass on your compliment :-)

talented mum Clare

Daniel Lindahl - I didn't say to get rid of it - I just said to change it for something else - I have a 70's home owner built - cavity brick - Daniel sometimes it is working with what you have in order to keep costs down - paintings - if you have several - can be changed around your home for a interesting look - as our homes are our homes - the paintings - can always be shared in various rooms/walls to suit ones mood.

Just paint the existing doors. Dulux Light Rice W

If you want to keep with your retro theme keep the current doors and stain them a similar tone to your table or paint them the same as your wall colour.

Not keen on the traditional either white or wooden.

1/3 panelled and 2/3 glazed door would be an added beauty!

DOH! I meant...Clare, I agree with Siriuskey and many others who prefer to keep the doors you have