thank you for all the feedback so far. I should have clarified that this is not the kitchen but a built in nook for computer and TV. The kitchen is white and the crown molding matches well. This nook if off the kitchen but around a corner so not immediately visible. We talked about not doing the crown molding in that area but we couldn't come up with a good breaking point from the rest of the house. We had talked about taking the white molding across the top of the dark cabinets but I didn't know if that was an acceptable design option. I see PPF has posted a rendering of it and others are suggesting it. Here we are trying it out. This might be my favorite option because of the clean lines, I just couldn't find any picture on line of something like that so i didn't know if it was taboo.

* Also when looking at the hallway ^... that photo of the "door" to the right is actually an elevator door...(Its faux painted...done before we moved here.) That is also the dilemma... if husband paints trim white... there is that door and I do NOT want to paint it white. so can the trim around the door be painted?

I n eed pics but usually I like flooring to either match the trim or the trim painted to not fight with the floors But with no idea of what you have who knows . Dir they not remove the baseboards when they did the floor ? IMO if you love the wood and it is the same wood as the floors I would strip and stain to match, IMO if Nordic is the aim the wood all needs to be the same as the floors or painted

Dear flippers everywhere, please refinish/restore your early 1900s wood!!! Unless its been hopelessly trashed by previous owners this wood has more value preserved than not - just take a look at the prices in architecutral salvage shops if you doubt that. Wood from this era is mostly what's left of the old growth virgin forests that once blanketed much of North America - which essentially doesnt really exist anymore, except what you find in old buildings. By 1930s/40s farmed wood began to be most common (ie growth accelants used, not the same quality as old growth wood) so probably less necessary to preserve, but still.... even that era wood is light years higher quality than the terrible splintery knotty wood of today. I also want to say to you flippers - dont under estimate your buyers. Just because you see acres of white painted wood in just about every RE listing doesnt mean buyers are clamoring for that. It often only means the seller got lazy or was in a hurry, and took the RE agents advice to slap white paint on it. The paint lover buyer is always free to paint if they wish, but the vintage wood lover is very likely NOT going to be able to undo a paint job. Once white paint gets deep into the crevices and pores of the wood it's essentially ruined. You can have very appealing current color schemes which incorporate wood tones. Just recently I saw a house with incredible heart pine stripped bare w/ clear satin finish and a sorta Scandinavian pallette of light grays/ blue-grays/ blue-greens throughtout which contrasted beautifully with the rich tones of the wood.