I've just completed rennovations on a small cottage which included fitting new four-panel, knot-free pine doors throughout. I don't particularly want to paint these but I'm not at all keen on varnished pine (or pine in any form, for that matter).
I wondered if anyone had any suggestions for treating the doors so that the grain can still be seen, but avoiding using standard varnish treatments which leave the door 'yellow' and later deepen to that horrible 'orangey brown' that pine seems to turn over the years.
A lighter, more neutral colour would be fine - something that gave the doors a 'bleached, washed' effect. Any suggestions...?
Nigel Lord