I don't think this would look funny at all, but then again, it is exactly when we did. ;-) The windows and doors are stained. The floors will have a natural finish. The baseboards and casing are painted white. I'm sorry we are still under construction, so I don't have great pictures. The doors aren't hung yet, but these might give you an idea. The ones "under construction" are our house. The finished pictures are some inspiration pics. Good luck! Our house "in progress". In this picture we combined stained stairs and windows with painted trim and window casing This isn't a great shot, but it does show the transition between the stain and paint on the windows. This is the only decent picture I have that shows a door (french in this case, but all the interior doors in the house are stained but not hung yet.) This door isn't hung yet (just resting there) but it give you an idea of the nice contrast between the doors and the trim. Inspiration pictures

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.

Well my husband has no patience and I haven't made it to the shop... so the paint I had already selected was applied to the trim SW Extra White. The paint is wet and shiny at the moment and the window is covered in plastic, so the color is not true yet. The picture is of the garage door, which is steel, but the color of the door was a match between this door and the front door, which are very similar in color. Also I will need to tell them to complete the frame in white. The second picture of the trim in the dining room which has a little more light coming through. My question is regarding the front door (3rd picture). At first I was going to paint the trim on this one, but a couple of weeks ago changed to staining the door and letting the base trim remain white but stop at the door. So the question: If I stain the trim what do I do with the window above. It is currently primed - purchased that way. Paint it the stain color or paint it white? I welcome your comments. FRONT DOOR BELOW: The door to the left is an office which will match the front door (trim color). These two doors are not in view of any of the other doors. The office has dark stained wood halfway up the wall and the door is see through.

I like them white. I owned a house with these old 5 panel doors and they were all painted white. I really liked the look. It was clean, classic and simple. The paint allowed the doors to show themselves without the dark colour being the overwhelming statement about them. And white painted doors are VERY forgiving when it comes to wall paint and floor colour. White goes with everything.