If you like the tub just fine, and don't welcome the time/trouble and expense of a new tub, I'd suggest trying to just restore it, if you can. As I suspected earlier, it can be restored with just automotive finishing compound and a high speed buffer with a wool pad. From the link below: Q: I have a cultured marble vanity top that is severely scratched and has no shine. Is there anything I can do to restore the finish? Gayle Crawford, Rio Rancho, N. Mex. A: Kevin O'Connor replies: Dan Maki, who has been making, installing, and refinishing cultured marble for nearly 30 years at Cultured Marble Products Ltd., Sacramento, Calif., tells me that the sheen of this material comes from a layer of clear polyester-resin gel coat applied to an opaque layer of fiberglass-reinforced polyester mixed with limestone dust. In his experience, the most common cause of scratched, dull gel coat is cleaners like Ajax or Comet. Cultured marble should only be cleaned with liquids that have no abrasives. Maki says it's fairly easy to bring back the shine and remove shallow scratches using an automotive finishing compound and a high-speed, 1,500- to 2,500-rpm buffer fitted with a wool pad. Rub it in by hand, wait until a haze forms, then buff it off. For deep scratches that don't go all the way through to the fiberglass, wet-sand with the compound and an 800- or 1,000-grit wet-and-dry paper. After sanding, give these spots a good buffing. Once your countertop is back in shape, he recommends shining it occasionally with liquid Gel-Gloss, a polishing wax developed just for cultured marble. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It has no major problems, but has quite a bit of etching and some staining from our hard water that is impossible to remove. Once you have it restored, I'd suggest either cleaning or at least drying the tub after each use, or as often as is possible. Now I'm looking forward to restoring the shower walls to their original sheen. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: This Old House -- Restoring Cultured Marble

So you can get an idea of what brown w/ dark trim may offer you here are 2 browns that I used yrs. ago and really liked w/ my dark trim. Clearly you can see that I lean towards most anything w/ a green tone. I won't list the names as I just wanted to give you a general idea.: On a dreary day & flash: The next lighter shade on the strip: Brown could work very well w/ the greyer tones that you are trying to work w/. If I might make a few color suggestions to give you some ideas of greyed colors that could be close to some of those Farrow and Ball colors that could look so nice w/ your wood - not sure about the windows: Really Greyed colors BM Imperial Gray #1571 BM Cheyenne Green #1502 or 1512 - can't read my writing SW Svelte Sage SW Softened Green #6177 BM Mesquite #0501 Clearer colors that are similar to some F&B colors: BM Healing Aloe #1562 SW Mountain Air Valspar Field of Pines #5004-4A BM Blue Grass #CC-640 Valspar April Thicket #5003-3C BM Wythe Blue #HC-143 BM Florentine Plaster #520 SW Naturel #2080 Also don't think that using a rich cream/ neutral color is a cop out. Sometimes that is a beautiful way to pull all of the others colors together and have a subtle yet rich palette that flows so well. Remember - if that window can be seen from other rms. the wall colors in those other rms. can raelly help draw the color of the window out and totally unify everything around it. Have you thought about painting the parlor another color instead of Rich Cream? Maybe paint the entry rm. Rich Cream instead. My thought process is that when you would walk into your home you would see the beautiful window w/ no hard visual color pulling away from it and then all of the subtle greyed tones all around. Although I do see your point - Rich Cream would really look lovely w/ that white in that rm. Personally I do not regret for an instant deciding to go neutral in my hallway.

OK, maybe this sounds silly, but if it were me I would stay away from the cream cabinets in the mudroom. It is, after all, a MUD room and while you will certainly keep it clean, mine has seems to continually get tracks and smudges here and there. Our lockers and bench don't show it so much in the honey spice stain, but I am continually wiping down the light colored walls (where my kitties jump from the floor to the window - no kids, but if you have them, you'll have similar issues I'd think). The ebony stain coordinating with the island sounds good to me. If you have good lighting in the mud room, it should not be too dark. And if the stain is that dark could you do a wood other than cherry and still be ok (to save on the costs)? If it is separated from the kitchen island at least somewhat, will it be noticeable? Maybe try the same stain on similarly grained woods... just an idea. Sounds like you will have a wonderful mudroom if it is like nomorebluekitchen's! Oh, and I'd definitely go for the lockers... I LOVE my lockers. Cheers, -Kim

HI everyone, thank you all so much for your thoughtful input! The overall theme I'm seeing is to not refinish the hardwood just for the sake of doing it - and definitely not for the sake of matching the LVP. For some reason, I didn't realize this was an option (lol) - I have been getting so bogged down in needing to take action (a la my husband with the kitchen floor), that I didn't even think to take a breather and let it be for a while so we can re-gather our thoughts :) And since the hardwood will be getting done in the next year or two anyway, it feels almost like a weight is lifted off my shoulders with not having to add one more thing to our current To Do list! @kempek01 your suggestion is spot on and made me laugh out loud! Truthfully, the mismatch didn't bother me as much until I thought of what my in-laws would say at our housewarming - and really, all of them are homeowners, so I'm sure they understand the concept of a work in progress ... AND if anyone does comment, I will say "Thanks for noticing" and chug my wine (while mentally throwing it on them)! @Patricia Colwell I like your idea of having the same wood species laid down in the kitchen and all of it matching! Or the idea of vinyl tile ... honestly, I was thinking of anything besides the LVP my hubs came home with! Lol! but having the same species of wood all the way through the house would be a very charming look! @dan1888 thank you for your words of wisdom! you're right, no need to sacrifice the rest of the house's hardwood to coordinate with a not-thought-out temporary fix :) @SJ McCarthy you make so many good points ... we're also in the middle of a total bathroom renovation and a light second floor renovation (which will then be further renovated down the line anyway), so the last thing we need to be thinking about now is moving our furniture from room to room, or to a storage pod, so the floors can be refinished. And, while we know we want to refinish them, we haven't nailed down a specific stain yet, so it would be more rushing, potentially leading to more regret! Your suggestion of sitting down and storyboarding each room is soooo incredibly wise ... we will definitely be doing that, starting over dinner tonight! @Fori thank you so much :) we think it's super cute too! It really is charming, and in keeping with the style of our house. It's so funny you say that, because my husband (he is a darling) EVENTUALLY wants to gut the whole kitchen, knock out the back wall, and expand the whole kitchen/dining room area!!! However, that's a big expense and still quite a few years down the road - plus, I think the house is kinda sweet the way it is - but the lack of dishwasher does plague us when we have guests for dinner! Ha! Anyway, I guess there's no point in paying twice for a temporary kitchen floor (and staining the rest of the house to match ...). Phew! I feel like I've been talked off several ledges today!!!