"jeffc" wrote in message
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Let's say you've got a house full of natural wood trim (polyurethane), and
you really want it semi-gloss white. Would you paint it, or just buy new
preprimed trim? If you paint, do you degloss first, or just put on the
primer and then paint over?

I was out buying baseboard earlier today. The cheapest was 99 cents per
foot (pre-primed fiberboard). By the time you do a whole house, you're
looking at hundreds of dollars. As others said, I would paint what I
already have.