I don't know how dark you mean... Here's our floor w/our cabinets. We went with a light floor. Light is less likely to show dust/dirt.

I have terracota colored tile with my dark, medium and light cabs.

I'm not sure our cabinets are dark - maybe more like mid-toned. I'd say our tile floor is neither darker or lighter than our cabinets. It has quite a bit of color variation though, so it doesn't have a monotone effect.

I don't have dark cabs, but here's a pic of the porcelain tile floor.

Dark cabinets - light porcelain tile floor.

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We have black cabs, but the floor is mostly light. What makes it work, is that it has darker veins running through it. Looking at the pics above, most of the lighter floors have the same thing.

I really love all the pics since I am doing a lighter Porcelain Tile in my kitchen and wanting to stain my 18.5 year old oak kitchen cabinets a deeper cherry color. Since the room is open to the family room and my glass end tables and coffee table has cherry legs, I think this would go nice. I love my kitchen table and it appears to be a cherry stain but more on the brown side wiht a hint of red.

Lmarletto, I also love your beautiful tile (or it is slate?) with your kitchen.

So many great ideas! Buehl, lmarletto, gibby3000, the way you have your tiles laid out are giving me new ideas. Laurie2008, your tile is so similar to mine and looks great the way it is laid on the floor. I am now confused and I guess I will have to lay the tile down and then decide what pattern will look best in my foyers and in my kitchen.

chinchette, what wood species and stain are your beautiful cabinets that flow so well with your gorgeous Brazilian Cherry floors in your other rooms.

Lynn: Mahogany, unstained.

I am going with York chocolate cabinets and like oak floor.