I like wood ceiling too and had them in all the rooms of my lakehouse but last summer we decided to paint all the wood and now I LOVE the painted wood. It still reads like wood but sooo cheery and light. We did it as the house is in Maine. I longed for more light in the winter (the few times I go up) but in your case the room is full of light so you could go either way. If your furnishings are going to be similar to the rest of the items you showed then you could go with a stain and add more warmth to the room. Sometimes the eye needs a resting place from the bright sun and that ceiling would be a show stopper if it were stained. I wouldn't go dark with the stain but more of a medium to light shade. Then I'd add some items in the same tone in the room to pull it all together. It's a wonderful sunroom, sigh.

Don't underestimate the magnitude of the stripping job. I know, it's been hanging over me for 16 years as I advance, one board at a time, but mostly still look at untrimmed doors and floors for which the trim is still in the basement. OK, I'm exaggerating a bit. But think hard before turning a functional house into a work-in-progress. (We removed the trim in the course of a full reno). I have a near mania for removing thick coats of paint from old wood, but I would never characterize the task as a small job. It's actually quite horrid. Also, it cannot be claimed that every piece of wood that emerges from beneath its paint is beautiful. But once I strip it, it is almost impossible to get myself to paint it (or to talk my husband into it). As such, the freedom to have coloured trim is somewhat reduced by stripping. And darkish wood/brown is not necessarily the best trim colour for all spaces - light and clean, for example, has its attractions. But my trim, which has a lot more profile than yours does, is so heavily marred by drips and bubbles that its original condition is almost unbearable. Painting over the old paint is not a solution for me. For you, it might be. You can always paint first, and then strip later if you decide that's what you want to do. If you have to strip, then one extra coat of modern paint is not going to make the job much more significant one way or the other. That way you get to figure out your colours with relative impunity too. If you do strip, research methods carefully. Search the topic here on the forum for previous exhaustive discussions. And also, think lead. I would never sand - sorry to disagree, powermuffin! - unless maybe just to rough up the surface a tad. But mostly, if I am painting over old paint, I don't have any problem with adhesion. KarinL

http://www.countryliving.com/homes/renovation-and-remodeling/waterfront-living-0705#slide-1 or gustavian grey/blue would look super with your choices.

in the main room you have partial white windows. I'd paint them all white so that it matches. even the door casing. you can leave the wood doors. as for the baseboards, up to you. your wood ones don't look too bad. It's just a whole lot of wood, especially if you're bringing in arts/crafts type of oak furniture. the floor is oak but the baseboards and trim look like something else. I'd prob do that living room/kitchen trim/baseboards in Alabaster. wait for the other rooms until you get everything in and see how it looks you have to admit, it looks much fresher.