Decorating and Design - Must the baseboard and trim be consistant?

I've done a lot of work in my kitchen including cork flooring (natural color) and I've gone with cream color cabinets replacing dark oak.
Throughout the house, including the kitchen, is dark mahogany trim and, with the changes described above, I'd like to go with white trim in the kitchen. The dark trim doesn't seem to fit the decor any longer. Can you change the color and type of trim (baseboard and doors) from room to room or should it be consistant through out the house?
Please jump in if you have any suggestions

Thanks

Seems a pity to cover mahogany with paint. Most people carry trim color throughout the home for continuity. The same color trim throughout pulls the house together. What color is on the walls? What colors are you working with in your decorating scheme in other rooms of your home?

Mahogany's color tends to range from pale reddish brown to dark brown and should make for a nice contrast with the cream colored cabinets. Both the cabinets and the natural colored cork are neutral colors. Perhaps a more intense color on the wall would make the cabinets pop and lessen the intensity of the darker trim?

Thanks for the reply - I know, painting over fine wood always sounds a bit off.
The walls are a moss green and the cabinets are a cream color - they go very well together. The problem is that the cabinets just don't look right with the dark trim (baseboard, window and 3 doorways). There is also a bi-fold wood door into a pantry and a sliding wood door (slides into the casing). The light cabinets tie in well with the mid earth tones of the cork and counter top and the green walls - but the dark trim looks out of place.

If you decide to paint the wood it should first be sanded, cleaned and coated with a solvent based primer. This will assure that the paint will adhere. You can then top coat with latex, oil base or waterborne enamel. IMO waterborne is the best [also costs more :(] Usually takes 1 coat primer and 2 coats enamel.

Paint the trim if it makes the room look better. The only time you run into trouble with different color trim is in an open space plan where the trim pieces from different areas run into each other.

It's YOUR house. Do what will make YOU enjoy it more.

Mahogany's color tends to range from pale reddish brown to dark brown and should make for a nice contrast with the cream colored cabinets. Both the cabinets and the natural colored cork are neutral colors. Perhaps a more intense color on the wall would make the cabinets pop and lessen the intensity of the darker trim?

Excellent Point!! Thank you very much for your input - this was the type of advice / opinion I was looking for. I've been looking at this from the wrong angle - I'm going to test a few paint colors this weekend and see what I can come up with.

Thanks again

I didn't see any posts here from the "decorating" folks - you might want to ask about this in the "decorating and design", or the "painting" forums. (I know how to install paneling and trim, but my wife doesn't let me pick colors - one little Pepto Bismal hallway, and I'm banned from the paint chips!)

Good idea Ubob but how about I go get the pro decorator in here that way we don't have duplicate posts. ;) Hold on...

i agree with 12pole. i definitely wouldn't paint the kitchen trim differently than the rest of the house. continuity & flow from room to room are very important. plus, white trim with cream cabinets wouldn't look good anyway, unless you really meant cream trim. but still, i'd leave the trim alone & play with the wall color. also, the addition of fabrics or area rugs into the space will help pull all these colors together. right now they seem unrelated, but the perfect fabric or rug & accessories with all these colors combined together will do wonders to bring it all together.