Would choose one flooring for the entire home. If you choose the lightest color in the overhead cabinets doors -- similar to sofa color -- for your flooring, it will "match"

the cabinets and work for the rest of the house as well.

Expect to need to remove the "baseboard" from not only any on the walls but those bottom trim boards on the cabinets as well in order to put the flooring down. That could be an opportunity to slightly lighten those just a little.

Note: That is one of the best concrete floor stain or paint jobs I've seen. What stain/paint brand and color is that?

Is that a step up into the kitchen? What type of flooring is in the den? I'm interested to see what the pros have to say. I personally like the stained concrete you have now but that might be hard on the feet.

Love that comment on the floor stain. And I'd tell you, if I knew. That photo was right after the remodel, and the floor looked fantastic. If it still looked like that, we'd be rocking on with it. But it looks awful now. We were warned that old concrete, especially that which had had linoleum/glue for years, would be dry and hard to keep shiny. And that's the case.

The cabinets are all the same color. The lighting is causing it to look differently.

The den does have lots of honey oak, because when we added that room on (along w/ master bedroom and bath), even though we went with some upgrades (wood doors and moulding, 9' ceilings, etc.), we chose to match the original kitchen cabinetry. We're paying the price now.

Good mention about the cabinet base trim, and I'm aware. That's one reason I've put off the flooring this long. We'll have to cut the feet off a bit.

It's more of a step down, into the den.

The kitchen was part of the original home. And the door to the garage that you may can see just past the faucet is the main point of entry into the home. (We have a front door, but the kitchen is the main path.)

When we added the den (and master bedroom/bath), we went with 9' ceilings, and got that by stepping down a foot to keep the same ceiling level.

And I liked the stained concrete that we HAD, too. It just doesn't look like that any more.

If ONLY the kitchen is concrete, you might consider refinishing the concrete and there are products intended specifically for that.

O, my preference, you could add a thin brick veneer or stone veneer or slate or some other tiles -- I like the gray slate look -- as long as your flooring isn't cracked or sinking. That way you could remove the horizontal base trim boards from the base cabinet, perhaps trim off the bottoms and then reattach them.

Is this a DIY project? Would do some You Tube research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way5bMh-eYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyvCzg-g_ek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbE-Q3ylps

I'd definitely keep the flooring lighter -- whether brown or gray -- rather than darker -- and and limit the darker vibe the kitchen cabinets.

Thanks! It will likely be DIY, but depends on what we decide to do.

I'll check out the veneers. Thanks!