diff --git a/sqlmodel/main.py b/sqlmodel/main.py
index 661276b31d..26aa9b3966 100644
--- a/sqlmodel/main.py
+++ b/sqlmodel/main.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     Interval,
     Numeric,
     inspect,
+    TypeDecorator,
 )
 from sqlalchemy.orm import RelationshipProperty, declared_attr, registry, relationship
 from sqlalchemy.orm.attributes import set_attribute
@@ -369,7 +370,32 @@ def __init__(
             ModelMetaclass.__init__(cls, classname, bases, dict_, **kw)
 
 
+def get_pydantic_root_model_engine_type(impl_, root_model_: Type[BaseModel]):
+    class PydanticRootModelType(TypeDecorator):
+        impl = impl_
+
+        def process_bind_param(self, value, dialect):
+            if value is not None:
+                value = value.__root__
+
+            return value
+
+        def process_result_value(self, value, dialect):
+            if value is not None:
+                value = root_model_.parse_obj(value)
+
+            return value
+
+    return PydanticRootModelType
+
+
 def get_sqlachemy_type(field: ModelField) -> Any:
+    if issubclass(field.type_, BaseModel):
+        if field.type_.__custom_root_type__:
+            return get_pydantic_root_model_engine_type(
+                get_sqlachemy_type(field.type_.__fields__['__root__']),
+                field.type_
+            )
     if issubclass(field.type_, str):
         if field.field_info.max_length:
             return AutoString(length=field.field_info.max_length)
diff --git a/tests/test_types.py b/tests/test_types.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7982aa9a7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_types.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+import ipaddress
+import uuid
+from datetime import date, datetime, time, timedelta
+from decimal import Decimal
+from enum import Enum, auto
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional
+
+import pytest
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+from sqlmodel import Field, Session, SQLModel, create_engine
+
+
+class HeroEnum(Enum):
+    SPIDER_MAN = auto()
+    BAT_MAN = auto()
+
+
+types_values = [
+    str("Hero"),
+    float(0.5),
+    int(5),
+    datetime(year=2020, month=2, day=2, hour=2, minute=2, second=2, microsecond=2),
+    date(year=2020, month=2, day=2),
+    timedelta(days=2, seconds=2, microseconds=2, milliseconds=2, minutes=2, hours=2, weeks=2),
+    time(hour=2, minute=2, second=2, microsecond=2),
+    HeroEnum.SPIDER_MAN, HeroEnum.BAT_MAN,
+    bytes(b'2020-hero'),
+    Decimal(2),
+    ipaddress.IPv4Address('192.168.0.1'),
+    ipaddress.IPv4Network('192.0.2.0/28'),
+    ipaddress.IPv6Address('2001:db8::'),
+    ipaddress.IPv6Network('2001:db8::1000/124'),
+    Path('/etc'),
+    uuid.UUID(bytes=b'hero' * 4),
+]
+
+
+def skip_conditions(object_value):
+    object_type = type(object_value)
+    if issubclass(object_type, BaseModel) and object_type.__custom_root_type__:
+        object_type_checks = object_type.__fields__['__root__'].type_
+    else:
+        object_type_checks = object_type
+
+    if issubclass(object_type_checks, Enum):
+        pytest.skip("Enums require changing sa_column, it will be tested in "
+                    "https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel/pull/165 for now they will be skipped")
+
+    if any(issubclass(object_type_checks, cls) for cls in [ipaddress.IPv4Address, ipaddress.IPv4Network,
+                                                           ipaddress.IPv6Address, ipaddress.IPv6Network]):
+        pytest.skip("ip addressees are not natively supported types in sqlite")
+
+    if issubclass(object_type_checks, Path):
+        pytest.skip("Path is not supported in sqlite")
+
+
+def table_creation_and_selection_with_types(object_value):
+    skip_conditions(object_value)
+
+    class Item(SQLModel, table=True):
+        id: Optional[int] = Field(default=None, primary_key=True)
+        object: type(object_value)
+
+    item = Item(object=object_value)
+    engine = create_engine("sqlite://")
+
+    SQLModel.metadata.create_all(engine)
+
+    with Session(engine) as session:
+        session.add(item)
+        session.commit()
+        session.refresh(item)
+
+    with Session(engine) as session:
+        query_hero = session.query(Item).first()
+        assert type(query_hero.object) is type(item.object)
+        assert query_hero.object == item.object
+
+    SQLModel.metadata.clear()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("object_value", types_values)
+def test_non_basemodel_types(object_value):
+    table_creation_and_selection_with_types(object_value)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("object_value", types_values)
+def test_basemodel_types(object_value):
+    class ItemModel(BaseModel):
+        __root__: type(object_value)
+
+    table_creation_and_selection_with_types(ItemModel.parse_obj(object_value))