Well, you can change the bedrooms at a cost but get the benefits of having the correct tone throughout your house. If you chose Modin from Flooret at $4sqf. 9x72"you can use their 6" wide product at $3 for the bedrooms. The wider product has a 40mil wear layer and the 6" is 20mil.

I wish it had that option here in Australia. No luck for prices like that here... It cost us about $3000 to do the bedrooms..

The kitchen cabinet colour is pulling 'peachy'. Your sample colours are showing brown gray. I'm afraid you will end up with a colour clash if you work with either of those two colours.

The bedrooms can be left as they are and can be chalked up as a 'learning' moment. You've just learned that renovating a bedroom before you had the full scope (colour palette) of your whole home presentation mapped out.

And I'm going to guess you cannot get any more of the original floor you put in the bedrooms. If you can, you would do that...and choose a slightly different cabinet colour.

What's your colour of counter top? An easy way to 'design' a kitchen is to have the counter top colour mimic the floor colour. In other words, a white counter top (or very light counter top) is mirrored in the colour of the floor = white/light flooring.

Your cabinets will have ++ wood grain and tone. You might want to step away from 'wood look' for the flooring in the kitchen and then work with another product in the rest of the home (one that is much closer to the floors in the bedroom).

Thank you, that gave me a lot to think about.

We renovated the bedrooms first because we were desperate to get rid of the carpets and get them ready for a baby. I wish we could have done the whole house at once then.

We can actually get the same flooring still to do the rest of the house with.

The countertop will be white. Do you think if we went with very whitewashed wood it would work?

The other option I suppose is to use white/tile or just go with a totally white kitchen which is a bit sad 🙂

I have no problem with white tiles in the kitchen and then the rest of the house gets the same floors as the bedrooms.

Your are very fortunate that you can get the same flooring. Just because the FAD is "1 floor throughout" doesn't mean you have to follow the trends.

Remember: Bathrooms, kitchens and entranceways are STILL allowed to have their own type of flooring because of the 'wetness' issue. It is very acceptable to have a tile in the kitchen, the bath and the entranceway and then have all wood throughout the rest of the home.

This is 100% acceptable in the designer/homebuyer play book. If your kitchen design choices do NOT support a wood floor in the kitchen (for whatever reason) you are still allowed to switch to a material/look that works for the kitchen.

Even in open concept living, a different floor for the kitchen can be done. Don't kill yourself or your style just to fit a square peg into a round hole. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best solution.

Personally I would find some tiles that work well with the cabinets, grab samples of your 3 favourite options and then go slab shopping. You will find ONE of the three tiles will be SUPER easy to match. Go with that one...even if it isn't your favourite. Getting a kitchen to work seamlessly is the goal. Trust me. it's what designers do ALL THE TIME.

Tile options are EASY to find....slab options are NOT. Go with the easiest option to match to the nicest slab you can find. Done like dinner.