Help selecting kitchen floor! Dilemma: mixing wood floor styles

last year

I need to select flooring for kitchen renovation. The kitchen is located in the center of the house, and is immediately adjacent to and between the living room and family room. On one side of the kitchen you can see red oak parquet flooring, on the other side you can see a slightly redder honey oak slat wood flooring.

The new kitchen will have white shaker cabinets. The only option I think looks best with my new kitchen is wood-look tile flooring in as close a matching shade to the parquet and slat red oak floors. I can’t get either the parquet and slat red oak floors so that’s not an option. Also, real wood is not an option in the kitchen.

If you have any suggestions for kitchen flooring, please let me know. I want something neutral that blends in with the kitchen. Because the counters will have a bold pattern, I don’t want to make a statement with the flooring. However, I’m open to any and all suggestions.

Thanks!

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kandrewspa

last year

You have stymied everyone because normally we would recommend that all flooring be the same. You already have two different types and you're talking about adding a third. Imitation wood never looks right next to real wood. This is the conventional rule, and friends of mine broke the rule recently - though I would never tell them this, it doesn't look good. Since you're comfortable with tile in the kitchen, then get something that looks like tile. Since you don't mention what your cabinets are, it's hard for me to be more specific, but consider a 12" X 24" neutral color tile (not gray since your floors are a warm color). Bring home sample pieces to look at next to a sample cabinet door, counter, and your existing floors. It shouldn't be too difficult to find something that works since tile stores and big box stores stock a lot of neutral color choices.

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Roseanna Prkr
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last year
These pictures represent what my floors look like, but not as bright or orange.
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HU-876090495
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We had a similar dilemma and selected a tile/stone look LVP. Ours is from Karmdean. It isn't as great as the same floor everywhere, but at least it isn't "not quite" matching.
Lynzy
last year
Are you in a position to have your existing wood floors stripped and restained to match a solid wood floor in the kitchen? That way you’d have some continuity rather than a patchwork floor. If you can’t do that, get large format tile or slate perhaps. Don’t do wood imitation anything next to real wood.
Roseanna Prkr
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last year
@Lynzy @kandrewspa @HU-876090495 Long story short, I can’t do anything about the existing floors. My preference would be to replace all the flooring and have same floor throughout the entire house, but I can’t do that right now. I REALLY appreciate the input. I’ll go with neutral tile.
Roseanna Prkr
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last year
@kandrewspa here are my cabinets. This color is called “Dove,” which is an off white (but reads white), but brighter white cabinets are also a possibility. It’s between those two tones. I welcome any suggestions for flooring color etc. My contractor will be installing the floors first, so that why I’m scrambling to select floors now. Regardless of what countertop I end up with, I feel like I’m limited (for the reasons discussed above) to a neutral tone anyway. I’ll post pics of the countertops I’m considering.
Roseanna Prkr
Original Author
last year
Here are the counters I’m considering…
Roseanna Prkr
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last year
Here’s the floor I was considering. I like this pick because it sort of shows what the adjacent room’s flooring looks like. Ours is more red though. I appreciate any flooring suggestions you may have.
Roseanna Prkr
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Lynzy
last year
I don’t think the floor you are looking at works with your counter slab at all. You need something that in no way is trying to mimic wood planks. Something like these slate or tile ideas. I’d personally go dark, but the right light color might work.
kandrewspa
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I would go with the Dove color cabinets instead of a whiter white since the orangey wood floors are going to be around for a while.
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kandrewspa, what do you think of the slate flooring?

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