Floors for rift cut white oak cabinets
I’m planning a kitchen remodel where I’ll have rift cut white oak cabinets in a light color stain and a contemporary style. I’m having a hard time finding engineered hardwood flooring in a color that looks good with the cabinets. The difficulty is that I want the floors to be fairly light as well, and I think there won’t be enough contrast with the cabinets. I need to find the flooring first, as the cabinets are custom and the stain also, so that can be finalized based on the flooring color. For both I’d like a neutral tone, not gray or reds.
The photos are to show the color of the cabinets for lightness, I know the tone is not the same. I’d like to keep the floors light but still somewhat darker than the cabinets.
Can anyone share what specific flooring they used with such cabinets, or what they would recommend? I’m getting so discouraged as I’ve looked at lots of flooring and haven’t found anything yet. Thanks in advance!
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Lynn Brenner
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Comments (16)Thank you so much for the links! nycbluedevil - here is the link to your threads. Your kitchen and bathroom are beautiful. It looks like you used stained walnut for your kitchen and stained rift cut oak for your bath. Beautiful! http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg1011163919891.html http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bath/msg0622101018782.html detroit_burb - those links are great! I am really torn. We are stuck with clear coat, plain sawn red oak floors which are pretty grainy. We are going for a more updated clean line contemporary look with our ranch style house. My concern with the walnut cabinets is that the grain will compete with the grain of the floor hence the interest in rift cut oak as an alternative. But I really like the color of natural walnut - nice too that it's a little easier on the budget because we would just clear coat it rather than stain it. If we go rift cut - we would have to stain it to get the darker contrasting cabinet color that I think the space needs but it's more expensive and I wonder if it's too modern. Ugh. This is the decision I've obsessed about the most. Bathrooms were easy! Lighting easy! It's just these cabinets! Any thoughts greatly appreciated. I just saw this thread too which helped - but still I'm wondering about how it all works with the red oak floors. Following this post too... Here is a link that might be useful: Thread on rift cut oak, mid century and other options...See MoreI need photos of your stained rift sawn white oak cabinets! Please? :)
Comments (9)Linelle: your description perfectly captures the difference between my sample and what I'm looking for! My sample is flat and lifeless. What I want is for the wood to look rich and alive. The example I chose may be red oak. I know white oak can be just as lively as red oak though. There are plenty of QS white oak photos that look rich and full of figure. It's the rift white oak that I cannot find good photos of! ILoveRed: I have seen the photo of the tall cabinets in the first kitchen and it is gorgeous! It doesn't show the detail of the wood as clearly as I need but I'll add it to my photos. The second kitchen you found has some really good photos. Thanks so much for finding that for me! omelet: I'm not an expert either but I agree with you - the cut determines the figure of the wood more than the finish. But take a look at the figure on the unstained backside of my sample door: Unstained, it has a lot of wonderful richness and unexpected fleck in too. If they didn't leave the backside unstained I would have never known that RS white oak could look so lively and have such lovely figure. In one of my other threads, we seem to have figured out that they used a mix of woods and cuts on this sample door. The side rails look like RS white oak, top and bottom rails QS white oak and center panel is plain sawn red oak. That's a fantastic suggestion to post on the flooring forum! Off I go......See MoreLooking for low to no VOC, unfinished rift cut oak engineered flooring
Comments (3)Reach out to Oak and Broad. They produce the very product you are looking for. How to purchase will be the tricky bit. What type of in-floor radiant heat are you using? What's the subfloor? Floating, glue down? What type of climate do you live in? What about your home's HUMIDITY control? In-floor radiant heat can be quite drying to wood that is sitting RIGHT ON TOP. That means you will HAVE TO HAVE a humidity control system that adds and/or subtracts humidity at the touch of a button. This will have to be in place before the wood reaches the install site. Good luck. These will be very expensive floors but will be well worth the effort....See MoreSolid White or rift white oak kitchen cabinets?
Comments (14)I got unstained white oak (quarter sawn, not rift cut, from Conestoga) and LOVE it, but you will find a million threads on here where people tried to get a high end white oak look and their cabinet maker completely messed it up. The easily attainable natural shades of unstained white oak is NOT necessarily what you see in high end "white oak" kitchens. wood is more variable than paint. If you have confidence in your cabinet maker and get a full sample door to ensure no suprises it's great... otherwise white paint is a safer choice. You usually get exactly what you expect with white paint....See Moredan1888
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last yearlast modified: last yearThe first issue is actually NOT the floor. Your inspo is probably a factory created cabinet. By nature a more consistent finish ......call this current "internet lust" and much more difficult to achieve in a local cabinet shop. Far more difficult, where pieces and parts may indeed take stain differently.
I'd be very certain, with a LOT of sampling testing from that shop, well in advance - before I tackled the flooring selection.
Truthfully - your best solution may be a white oak sanded on site floor, stained only when you know the final finish of those cabinets, and even stained, AFTER the cabinetry is installed.
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5983411/help-wrong-finish-on-white-oak-cabinethttps://www.houzz.com/discussions/6230815/how-to-keep-natural-white-oak-color-on-cabinets
The floor below was pre existing, and the kitchen redone, new island years after. Floor is engineered , long discontinued, but it took quite a few trip/tests to the shop to get what my client wanted. Minwax.........one coat......nothing atop it. Believe it.
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last yearFailing that above? You could try to sample as below, near you? I've used twice. In different tones, and quite lovely
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