Now you got me started. I was going to comment that the molding and the floors look wonderful and should stay the colors they are. In many older houses with stained ww, the floor is lighter, giving some interest to the room. Then you got me started on base shoe, my FAVORITE topic. IMHO, you must put the base shoe up. It's the finishing touch on fine woodwork. I've always wondered why it is called base shoe and finally determined that it's like putting on your best clothing and then going barefoot. It just looks unfinished. My former house had all natural molding, what I wouldn't give to have it now. I love my house, but the white moldings can go...and the upkeep. My guess is if you're using the original baseshoe and it's held up all these years, it'll will hold up for many more. New stuff, unless you buy oak, not so much. Have fun. The house is beautiful.

it really is a personal preference, but i am doing my perimeter cabs in a cottage white with distressing and the island will be a tuscan sun cherry with distressing. i wanted to be safe at first and do it all white, but each time i flipped through a magazine my eye went to the contrasting color on the perimeter cabs and island. good luck with your decision; i don't think you can make a "wrong choice".

Lighter walls and a darker rug, and overall more color please. Right now there is no focal point in this room, and I hope you'll consider a fantastic painting over the fireplace and ditch all the small stuff on the mantel. With such a very dark floor the light rug just looks wrong. In nature you have the brown earth, then green grass and trees and then the lighter blue of the sky. Try a warm colored rug (like an Oriental, which has many colors), a glass coffee table which will show the rug instead of the weighty, chunky ottoman, off-white walls and drapes that are not much darker than the walls to open up this room. Pillows with colors taken from the rug which will tie the color scheme together, and then art on the walls in rich colors to glow against the light walls.

I'm not seeing a lot of cohesion with the colours. The 'costal' vibe is light with blue and green. You have cabinets that have an overwhelmingly orange/brown cast to them. They will override every colour you want to use and force you to use every colour you do NOT want to use. The counter tops read 'orange marble'. That means 90% of the kitchen's viewable surfaces are orange. One of the things orange does NOT work with = gray. Of any sort. And it doesn't work well with COLD tones (which is the 'ash' in the cool-tone browns you need to use to tone down the pink). You are seeing plenty of pink because it is clashing SOOOO HEAVILY with the ORANGE domination of your kitchen. Your original floor colour was identical to your cabinets. It was the perfect match. Now that you want a new colour floor (I'm assuming you do NOT want to touch the cabinets nor the counters) so that you can get a beachy/coastal vibe you have found how debilitating the colour orange is to a blue/white/green breezy look. I think light is the way to go. I would ensure a little bit of orange is added into the floor colour. The orange itself (as you can see by the original stain colour) will reduce the pink. What I would suggest: Decide WHEN you are going to change the rest of the kitchen. Is it in the next 7 years? If so then I recommend you get the floor you WANT and 'live' with the nasty orange/gray clash until you can't stand it any more. Then you revamp your kitchen to look 'beachy coastal' to match the floors. If you are redoing the kitchen 10+ years, I suggest you EMBRACE the orange tones of the cabinets and go with a lighter floor that compliments the STRONG orange in your cabinets. In other words, if you can't beat'em (or won't beat'em) then your only option is to join'em.