Our home will have painted trim, we are using stained doors for the main areas and into the bedrooms. Once you are 'inside' the doors will be painted. For example, the entry hall will have stained doors into the powder bath and hall closet. Our master will have a stained door into its foyer, but the double doors to the master and the single door to the bath from the foyer will be painted. In the master bath/closet area all doors will be painted. The french door from the kitchen to the back hall is stained, once you are in the back hall the doors will be painted. On the lower level the doors along the hall into the bath, utility/mechanical room and bedrooms will be stained the closet doors inside the rooms will be painted.
Hope that makes sense, and helps. :)
I would match the doors to the windows,because they are on the same 'eye level' as the windows vs the floors but also because I love oak floors but just like the look of fir doors better than oak.

Ok, I take that back... :) Jaymie's oak doors are gorgeous and I really love the color, what stain did you use and what is your wall color if you don't mind sharing? The two are so pretty together your space just glows.

Thank you so much luckymom23. The doors are Minwax Red Oak on a red oak door, but they had to be "browned up" a bit to match our cabinetry (which was also stained with Minwax Red Oak but on QS white oak, if that makes sense). I believe they used Minwax Early American to make it not so red on the red oak. The wall color is SW Humble Gold and the trim is SW basic white. We have a ton of natural light in our space which ended up completely changing the color palette I intended to use, but we are very happy with the finished product.

Luckymom...your description of the mix of finishes is exactly what I had in mind. Thanks!
Jaymie...I've been following your progress on this forum and in fact have used some of the photos that you've posted in describing what we want to our GC when he was having trouble conceptualizing where the stain stopped and the paint started on doors and windows. So, keep visiting THS and offering your thoughts and advice to those of us still bumbling along with our builds. Your house is lovely, and certainly has been an inspiration to me.

Coffeehaus, You are too kind. Thank you very much for generous compliment. I'm still addicted to THS after years of preparing to and then finally building, so I will continue to contribute when I can. I'm very happy to be able to possibly give back to the forum because it truly changed our house immensely from what it would have been without all the information from contributing members here.

So, so happy to see this topic discussed. I am in agony trying to decide between solid wood stained doors and painted masonite doors inside my house. One or the other, or a mix of the two? It keeps me awake at night. Please share more pics everyone! I like the idea of stained in the "main" or public areas of the home and painted inside the rooms to save money. Please please share pics!!

Found this old thread in a search as I, too, am in agony deciding on the whole stain vs paint ordeal. DH doesn't see the beauty in mixing stain and paint so I am trying to gather pics to convince him. (The engineer in him needs the visual!) Since I am the one who does the painting, I am trying to avoid the more tedious, repititious painting around the window panes. Also, I was thinking that stain won't show the dirt as much. Echoing fancypants, please, please share pics!!

Terri23...here's what we have so far: trim is painted throughout the house, downstairs all doors are Douglas fir to match the windows, upstairs all doors are painted same as trim. All windows, upstairs and down, are Doug fir with painted trim. We are still a work in progress, but here's a few photos of the effect. Hint: on many posts, if you click on the photo it will link you to more pictures if this option has been enabled by the poster. I encourage you to search for more postings by Jaymielo...she has some beautiful examples. Also, check out this thread that I linked below. FWIW, my DH was also skeptical about mixing, but we already had decided on red oak floors and Doug fir windows, so what then do you use for trim? One way or another, you'd have differing woods adjacent, either for the window trim/windows or the baseboards/floor. I think painting the trim ties it all together in a satisfying way and our different woods still compliment each other. Oh, and just to complicate matters, we have some black walnut thrown in to that mix, as well!
Here's a shot of some of our stained windows with painted trim
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The Douglas fir doors:
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Painted doors
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Here is a link that might be useful: painted vs. stained

Ahhh... I remember this post. Just a follow up, I went with a basic 6 panel door, painted SW Roman Column. My front door is Douglas Fir, and will be stained dark. There are also stained french doors to the office. The office is right off the entry, and the trim and library wall is stained, so I felt the doors should be as well. If my budget allowed, I would choose all stained doors, but would still keep my white trim, because I love white wood work. I have seen pics on this site with white trim/dark stained doors and it is lovely. You see it a lot in older homes, btw. Sometimes I browse the old house forum for inspiration.

Ah, thank you for the feedback everyone! In our main house, we have a stained front door (stained on the outside and inside) with painted white trim and then painted white interior doors with painted trim throughout the rest of the house. It looks gorgeous, but If I had it to do over again, and budget and time allowed, I would have done the whole house with painted trim and stained interior doors. I think stained doors are absolutely gorgeous in a white home and add so much luxurious warmth in my opinion, and are better for fingerprints, etc. Now for the current dilemma: in our guesthouse, I have one unfinished french interior ten-light door that I want to stain when none of the other interior or exterior doors are stained. This might not look good, but I'm going for it since it's the only windowed door and seeing if it looks like a farmhouse antique or something. If it looks inconsistent, I can always paint it, but not the vise versa, so I figured it was worth a try. :-)