Wood counters, wood cabinets, wood floors--too much?
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mixing woods in kitche. Cabinets and floor different woods.
Comments (0)I would love to see your kitchen pics of floors that are different wood color than cabinets. I have blonde maple and am going to install Uniboard Brazilian Cherry on floors. The tone is a medium shade for cherry. All the experts tell me the contrast will be great. My counters are black corian and it is a really spacious room. The floor color will be awesome in rest of house but kitchen contrast still scares me. Any pics of your contrasting rooms would be greatly appreciated....See MoreWood island counter-too much maintenance?
Comments (16)Sarah, we have a wood island countertop, but opted to do soapstone at the end where the prep sink is. It's the best of both worlds for us - no fuss maintanenace around the sink, and I don't worry about water with the wood island countertop. BTW, we finished our wood with Waterlox and the upkeep is really easy. While we do minimal "prep" on the wood island, we eat at the island daily and always serve buffet style from there when we have guests, plus sit there to read the paper, use the computer etc etc so it gets a heavy workout. Eliz...See MoreDoes wood cabinets plus ceilings plus floors = too much wood?
Comments (20)Thank you all. Either painting the ceiling or the cabinets would be the easiest way to avoid too much brown wood everywhere. (I actually rather like modern high gloss lacquered cabinets.) White paint with a slight blue tint on the ceiling with walnut stained beams sounds quite pretty. However, my DH hates painted wood. Given the choice, he would much rather go with tile floors than paint the ceilings or the cabinets. The wood ceiling doesn't look too bad as is in the photo I posted. I like the depth of the color it is now - not too dark and overpowering - but the tone of the color is the problem. At certain times of day, as the light changes, the ceiling takes on an unattractive pinking or yellowish cast. One of our big problems in the house is lack of lighting, so we are adding as much as we can during the remodel, including cove lighting on top of the cabinets (we can�t do any recessed lighting because there is no space between the wood ceiling and the roof), so the wood ceiling will become more of a feature with the lights aimed at it. Our contractor is supposed to do samples to see if we can dye the ceiling to a more neutral brown shade, without going much darker. We could try to do a greyish tone, like driftwood or aged teak, but that will probably be harder to achieve successfully over a large area than a brown tone. There are little wing walls that separate the kitchen from the dining/living area, so we could do separate flooring in each space. I do not mind using tile in the kitchen, it is the living room that concerns me. I agree that the trick to using multiple woods in one space is to vary the tones and textures, but they still must be complementary. We could leave the ceiling lighter, like it is, and use darker wood floors in the living room, but the furniture in that room is a mix of pecan stained cherry and teak, with medium-dark brown leather couches. I will buy a new contemporary styled rug in lighter tones (creams and blues most likely) no matter what we choose for flooring. In the kitchen, we are using white quartzite counters, stainless appliances and some glass doors in cabinets, so that will break up the brown wood. I still think wood floors in the kitchen at least will be too much with the cabinets and ceiling. I am really torn between lighter or darker walnut cabinets because I love both looks. Black walnut from Smallbone (not sure if this is stained or natural): Sanjuangirl, we are south of you, in San Diego....See MoreWant wood floors, but... SO MUCH WOOD ALREADY
Comments (13)I wouldn't touch the ceiling because it is beautiful and it would be a lot of work to paint all of it. Start bringing home flooring samples until you find one you like. If you don't like anything, wait a bit because the LVP manufacturers change up their offerings frequently. If you were to buy something now it probably wouldn't still be available in a year or two. So when you do find what you want be prepared to buy it for the whole house if you intend to do the whole house with it. Stunning view, great house - I think I could live with carpet for as long as it takes to find the right thing, but it is so much easier to do the floors before moving in. The kitchen cabinets look like they're in good shape, but dated and dark. Use the kitchen for a while to see if you like the layout before putting expensive countertops on old cabinets....See Morecookncarpenter
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