Don't know if this will help b/c it is still under construction, but here's the columns and arch dividing our foyer and dining room:

I do not have columns but I do have painted and wood trims mixed. Doors and banister are stained mouldings are painted. It is tiny so hard to photograph but I think this shows the wood mixed with paint trim. Beagle your new build is lovely and I am an old house gal!

Roarah, I am kind of tired of people using white molding to "pop" but I am not ready for the heaviness of stained wood. Your combination is perfect, just perfect. And the wall color too. Brava.

Hey Beagles, it's really coming along! Your colors remind me of Monet.

Thanks. I'm actually an old house girl too and would have bought a beautiful old home in a second if we lived in a place that had a lot of them to choose from and if my fiance wasn't opposed to the idea of buying an old house. Now, I'm just trying to incorporate some old world details. And I love Monet! We'll probably put up Monet prints in some of the areas, so good they'll match :)

roarah, your house is beautiful! I love the dark stain! I don't want to hijack the thread, but do you mind if I ask you what the wood is and how it was stained. Through a series of misadventures, our stairs and bannister are a different wood species from our floors, and I want to stain them both very dark rather than trying and failing to match, and yours looks like it would be the perfect color and it looks great w/ your lighter wood floors too, a beautiful contrast.

We don't have columns either, but we do have painted/stained mix. Hope this helps!

Thanks Mtnrdredux and beagles. I have to admit my mix of trim and wood is due to laziness. After stripping and refinishing all the doors(they were all painted lavander) I could not fathom any more dust so I looked up old homes and in the 20s the mix of stained doors and painted trim was used so I ran with the easier fix. Glad you like it:).

Beagles, the banister was the only orginally stained wood left in the house when we purchased. I believe it is mahogany in a jacobean stain. I had trouble finding a Jacobean stain for the doors when I refinished them so they are in a dark mahagony finish by minwax, I think and i "polyed" them with a glossy finish for that is how the banister was...they are not an exact match but pretty close. once again your new home looks very old world! Beautiful mill work!

Our dining room is straight ahead of the entry way. I couldn't get both columns to show in the photo. I wish now that we had put 2 columns on either side but won't bring that up to DH. We changed columns on front porch entry last year - quite a project.

thanks roarah. I'll ask my builder about mahogany stain w/ a glossy poly finish. It could be just what we need!

I don't have a combination of stained and painted trim, but we do have columns separating our entry and great room. Our home is very casual compared to most on the forum. Just another perspective for you to look at.

This is our recently completed new build.
This is the foyer...our door is stained mahogany, the stair rail is stained oak and the trim is SW Extra White painted wood. Note the panel detail we had the carpenters do inside the cased opening to the dining room on the left. It is repeated in the very large cased openings on two sides of the family room.

My Foyer:

Well, when we purchased our house there was an arched opening between living and dining rooms:

And we added fluted casing to the sides and top and other decorative trim both to the LR side and the DR side of the arch. The trim throughout most of the house is a pale yellow, but in the dining room everything is painted in the same oxblood color, inc. all trim. So while that's not a stained wood it's also not white or, in our case, pale yellow. Maybe that'll give an idea what white might look like with a darker wood?

from the living room into the dining room, the whole arch:

up close of the trim detail:

and from the dining room, as much of the whole thing as I could get:

up close in the dining room, to see where the oxblood paint meets the pale yellow of the LR trim:

I'm glad I saw this post. We have dark stained doors and trim, but I've been wanting to paint the closet door in the kitchen because it butts right up next to a bank of cabinets, and the cabinets are a completely different color, so it just looks funny. But the dark trim is carried into the adjoining hallways, so I wasn't sure I wanted to try to paint that. Now it looks like it's okay to paint the door and leave the dark trim... I'll have to photoshop it and see.

Nini804, Do you mind sharing your paint color? Looking for precisely that color . What a lovely home!

love2weed here's a little more inspiration for the entryway to help show your husband what can be :)
https://www.houzz.com/photos/entryway-ideas-phbr0-bp~t_741

nini804 what you've done in your home is gorgeous! very nice.

I was also wondering what color Nini804 has used. Looks perfect.