kemmc23,

If you post a pic of present kitchen, that would help. Everyone's idea of what Honey Maple is may be different. Are you planning on refinishing your cabinets too? Putting in a new floor may sharpen the difference between old cabinets and new floor. Can't remember who it was, but someone here refreshed her kitchen with a super cleaning and touch up job. Unbelievable how much difference it made!

What about some type of wood that has noticeable graining in it- to provide the contrast, but not be too dark. I know when I was looking that there were some beautiful maples (light background) with gorgeous swirls and grains. Pecan...? Anyhow- if you have older maple cabinets they will probably have a certain tone/darkening- best to see pics, and of course you'll have to take a door off to go floor shopping.

Here's a pic of our 'low' contrast oak floor with maple cabinets.

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Our maple kitchen cabinets have a medium stain, dining room furniture is a medium stain oak. Dh & I want a light color floor. So far, we like Lauzon's red oak natural. It's the sample you see in the middle (see pic below). It doesn't have a lot of variation in color. The other two samples have more variation, but I still like them very much. The darker sample on the left is BR111 Amendoim, the far right is 2 samples next to each other of Lauzon'r hickory-natural. We just put in the porcelain tile in our kitchen.
The rest of the house will be wood. I agree with raehelen's suggestion of checking out woods with variations of light and dark in it. I recently found out that hickory is also sometimes referred to as pecan. Also, amendoim is also sometimes called Brazilian oak. HTH

This is a section of the DR where you see the doorway to the kitchen. At the bottom left of the pic, you see some cardboard. This is part of our front door entryway..we recently tore out the old ceramic tile.

Due to Raehelen's suggestion, I am trying to attach pictures of my kitchen, but can't seem to figure out how to! We recently changed the countertops, and backsplash, but we will not be making any changes to the cabinets. They are only 7 years old and in decent shape.

Marzhere- what type of oak do you have? This is almost the shade that I was thinking. Does it hold up well?

Thanks Laurie for the pictures! This really does help!

Our floor is white oak. Bruce Dundee Plank in butterrum. We've had it installed for ~ a year, no wear/finish issues. There is about 1500 sq ft installed in our house (bedrooms, hall, kitchen, dining, living and stairs), two mini doxies (whose nails aren't kept short) and we do wear shoes in the house.

Pictures need to be housed somewhere besides your computer (ie photobucket).

Here is a link that might be useful: Picture How To

Okay..figured it out. Sorry so big, but I can't seem to resize it. The pictures are a little more orangish than in person.

Thanks

Marybeth-
What color cabinets are you going with?

Anyone else have any more pictures?

I have caramel maple cabinets with Ubatuba and my floor is red oak. Here are a few pictures.

patti823 - your flooring is very pretty! I'm considering red oak for our floors. Can you tell me the brand you used & any other details about it? Thanks

where did you get the backsplash and what is the name of it again. It is beautiful

The sample on the right is too close to your cabinet color.