FYI- I had seen a White Oak floor finished with waterbased polyurethane and it looked as light as Maple flooring. The veins in the wood weren't as prominent, but the floor was very pretty and light. Some flooring companies have samples so you can see what it looks like. If I can remember correctly, we had pine doors and pine trim in our previous house. We had the painters stain them just a touch darker than natural. You almost couldn't see any stain. It looked really nice, but I got tired of the yellow/orange like color. It seems that Oak and pine turn a little more yellow/orange if you leave it natural or don't stain it dark enough. I like both the white or the stained look, but recently I was wondering if a whitish/linen milk wash on pine doors and trim would look nice. I saw this pine wall at Ikea that had a linen color milk wash stain with satin poly over it and it looked stunning. I thought that a thin stain in off white with poly would give it a lighter look (for those of us who prefer natural or ligher wood), with virtually no further upkeep, and the wood wouldn't get the yellow/orange color). I wonder how paint would look next to that type of stain... I think I'll try to experiment with it and see if I would use it when we build our next house. PS-I'm noticing that the green homes around here seem to be going with natural wood (no stains), including the floors and the kitchen cabinets. In light of that, I wonder if white or stained kitchen cabinets will be phased out as the homes go green...

Pricing wise, the wooden interior doors are more than double. The front door on the house also costs a good chunk more to get a stainable fiberglass material. If I have wood interior doors, I would want at least the inside portion of the front door to be wood, too. However, it is more of an oak and limited to gel stain kits, while my trim will definitely be pine. I feel like I may have too much wood in the house after wooden birch cabinets, stained pine base, stained pine window jambs, stained pine window casing, and stained pine door casing. Wooden doors would flow with the wood trim, but they would be big chunks of stained wood. Looking around online I see a lot of painted trim and stained wooden doors but NOT near as much stained trim and painted doors. However, I have wondered if I had doors painted a darker color, then maybe the wood stained trim would not look so broken up from the doors. Hoping to get a second opinion on this idea and if anyone has some photos of what I am talking about that'd be good to look over.

Depends on the style of the house is my answer. I disagree with the idea that all the trim should match, instead my belief is that all trim of a particular grouping should be treated the same, but the grouping criteria can vary. All interior doors are stained is valid or everything in the basement is painted is valid but flip a coin categorizing just won't work. The house I am selling is from 1931 and has stained wood in the public spaces with white trim in the kitchen, baths, and bedrooms. We did have the center hall crown stripped of a previous owner's paint as it was originally stained and we felt it fit better in the grouping of stained wood. In my 1933 Tudor next house, I chose to paint all the new trim in the basement and finished attic white and not change the existing stained trim. I added crown in the main floor and worked quite diligently over many hours to match the color and finish of the original woodwork. Purchasing, finishing and installing stained trim is very expensive, in time, money or both, and I don't consider it to be worth the expense in a newly built space. I occasionally see new stain woodwork of fantastic quality and design but so much of it either looks cheap or pretentious to my eye, although I know it was an expensive item

No don't do any "pop" on the front door either inside or out.