I agree with Sina.

Completely agree with the above comments -- the undertones of the door and flooring clash. If I were you I would choose the less red door option in your picture 2 and pair it with the top flooring option from picture 1.

I just learned a lesson this weekend about flooring and how different it can look in the store vs the actual space. My house is not dark, yet when I brought 6 flooring options home (all light-medium light in the store), 4 out of 6 turned SO dark! I could not believe it, it's the light from the north side. If you have an option to take your samples to a model unit that also does not have side windows (interior unit like you said), please do so. It might make your choice easier.

The cab color is the problem if those are your only wood floor choices. Karlylava gave the best combination if those are the only choices. Are there only two wood stains to pick from for the cabs?

If those are your options I would go, exactly as Kariyava said, with the other cabinet and the top wood floor for more "brown" tones than red.

PS. The butterfly beige granite will be an absolutely bullet proof option. Mine shines like brand new after 6 years (and 4 kids), zero stains, zero chips...and it hides everything. I have sealed it twice. I combined it with a very light gray perimeter cabinet and a white island. Be sure to use a light and simple back splash. That granite reads very gray in my house, and not busy due to the other choices.

Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions! Those are the only choices for the floor. For the cabinets, there is a white one. But we figured it will be very difficult to maintain white cabinets, especially with little kids around. So that left us with the two options that you see in the picture. We actually love the floor to be a dark color. Will the other cabinet color, the less red one go better with the dark floor? Or none of the cabinets will look good with the dark floor? In that case, we will have to think about opting for the lighter colored floor.

Without seeing your suggested combo together, I am not sure there is enough contrast??? Any chance of putting the two together and snapping a photo?

No there will not be enough contrast with the non-red cabinet and those floors. Also, white cabinets are not that difficult to keep clean. Just wipe them down with a damp cloth occasionally and thats all it takes. I promise you those dark floors will be more of a pain to keep clean.

rantontoo I do not have pictures of just the dark floor and the more brownish (and less red) cabinet at this moment. Will try to get it later tomorrow. In the meantime, the 2nd picture has that combination. In that pic, the bottom one is the floor that we chose and the one right over it is the less red and more brown cabinet. So that is the combination that I was suggesting in my last post. The sample on the top is the more red cabinet that is in the last pic.

I honestly don't think that the less red door looks very good with the flooring it is next to in the second photo. It's hard to tell, but is the flooring in the second photo the second from the bottom in the first photo? If so, you could try pairing the less red cabinet color with the very bottom choice from the first photo (the darkest one) to see if (1) the undertones look good together and (2) there is enough contrast. Try putting them next to each other and posting it here so we can see.

Even if the combination works, however, you will have an overall very dark look so I would do everything I could to lighten up the rest of the space (choosing a lighter counter than the sample you posted above, a very light backsplash, and very light wall color).

If your only objection to white cabinets is wear and tear with kids, I think you would be pleasantly surprised how well factory finished paint holds up. Perhaps reconsider the white, which would look amazing with dark floors.

Are you allowed to choose 2 tone? My white island is messier because that is where the kids hang out the most (I'm doing darker cabinets in my reno). Could you do a darker island and white perimeter to keep it light enough for the flooring that you like the most?

Both those cabinet doors in photo #2 are red. Frankly, I don't think either of them go with any of the floors very well. If those are your only wood choices, I'd go white.

kariyava You are right. The flooring in the second photo is the second from the bottom in the first photo. For the counter we have the options in the picture I am attaching here. So I think we chose the lightest one available. For the backsplash, we have two options -- white and light gray (picture attached). Do you think the light gray will look good or should we opt for the white one?

If you are sticking with the wood cabinet idea, I think the creamy white (the one on the right) will be a safer choice with the other warm options you are considering.

If you are considering white cabinets instead, you have to hold both tile options up to the white door to see which one looks best.

I want to emphasize the issue about dark floors that was mentioned. They tend to look dirty all the time because every crumb and piece of dust and spill is glaring on a dark floor. You will be swiffering constantly, or they will look messy. A lighter, natural stain floor is not so high-maintenance.

Your builder is not doing you any favors with the finish choices you have to pick from! Plan to get a Roomba if you go with the dark floor.

I echo the suggestion to go white...it will look awesome with the dark floor. The cab choices with the dark floor do not work...at least on my monitor.

I love my dark wood floors! I would rather see the dirt, dust, dog hair than pretend they are clean.

My choice is what Groveraxle suggested. Classic!

You need your contractor to update his cabinet color choices. It's likely the cabinet supplier has already done that with new options. Ask the contractor to let you check with the manufacturer. It's a zero cost change that'll work in your contractor's favor long term.

I have your chosen floor color in my family room, with built in wood cabinets. It did make the room (north side of house) too dark, even with a large picture window; plus I had the same problem of the wood tones really not being right in combination -- that bugged me. I painted the cabinets white (BM Simply White) and they now look great with the floor. The room is much more cheerful! I do have to sweep the floor frequently, it is true that dust and crumbs show up -- but I was raised to sweep the kitchen floor daily anyway.

I also have white cabinets in the kitchen and they are not hard to maintain, no harder than stained (so far, 4 years in). I like being able to see drips, spills and dirty fingerprints -- this is my kitchen, after all, and I want it clean! So the cabinets around the food prep areas get wiped about weekly, especially around the stove, and whenever I see a spill -- a soft sponge and a little dish detergent does the job in a matter of minutes.