Strikes me as too many colors - better to rethink even the door trim or do everything darker, plus putting in just one element of 'an older style' may be lost in the overall design if it doesn't naturally flow or make sense in the space. But please remember I can't see your kitchen and I'm only guessing at what you're referring to and its/their relation to other things nearby.

I'm not familiar with those shades from BM. But a good friend painted her kitchen cab's an olivey green for the "frame" of the cab's. The doors themselves are black with a bit of distressing. It looks absolutely fantastic. Her adjoining breakfast room has black table and chairs (country french looking) and her walls are an olivey green. In the kitchen, above the cab's (soffit I believe it's called?) is a green in a bit deeper shade than the cab "frames" (also the dining wall color). Wish I had a photo to share with you. It doesn't sound great, but it is honestly so beautiful. When she first told me her plans I didn't voice my hesitancy. Sounded odd to me. LOL! After she painted them, at our next get together with our group of girl friends, we all stood around and oohed and aahed over her kitchen. Everyone loves it! It looks gorgeous! :O) I say if you want to do two tones, go for it. :O)

Hi Debbie - it looks like a lovely home! My approach to mixing wood grains is to let just one show off its grain pattern. The adjacent wood plays a back-up roll with subtle graining in a contrasting color. That way they don't fight each other. This is a lot easier to do when you can choose the type of wood itself. In your situation, I would most likely match the floor to the dark stain of the double oven cabinets. That may be way darker than you're thinking! The dark stain would knock down the visible graining of the floor. You might see if you can grab some samples of engineers wood floors in different stain colors to see how it looks with trim. You might consider painting the medium-stained kitchen cabinets to cut down on the number of wood grains competing in the space. Hope that helps! Best of luck with the project. Doug

They can be anything you want them to be. I would prefer mine to match, but, that doesnt mean you are wrong to mix them, if it pleases you. I dont like it though, when someone has all wood, and just paints the baseboards and nothing else. To my eye, that looks ridiculous. I dont mind doors left another color or wood, and just the trim painted.