Pictures would help a whole lot... ;) BTW - do you mean "Dove White"? Dover White is a Sherwin Williams colour and very different. BM doesn't have a "Dover White". Pale Oak goes well with Dove White on my monitor. As for the stair railing - we'd need to see a pic. Depends a lot on the style.

How does the Pale Oak look with your floor tile? Need to make sure the undertones are similar and that's hard to do with photos. Your house and my old house in North Andover, MA look like they were done by the same builder...same balusters and handrail, same stairs, same tile (we changed ours out to hardwood), same basic layout... ;) Anyway - I looked at pics of our old house and our railing was natural wood - possibly stained a medium brown - not by us - as was the newel post, with white balusters. It was darker than the stair treads which were natural oak. So you might want to consider stripping the handrail and newel post, seeing what's underneath, and then stain and varathane, which will give you a finish that is much tougher than paint. You could stain them any shade - including almost black. The advantage of this is that you'll get some variation with the grain of the wood, which I think would work well. I'm not crazy about the Urbane Bronze - looks too light and has greenish undertones. The oil-rubbed bronze is much darker - I'd go with something that goes with it.