Honey (orangey, if you ask me) oak cabinets with what color hardwood floors?

 We want to put hardwood floors in our entire first floor.  This
includes the kitchen where I am having a frustrating time deciding on
the exact wood and stain color.  We have very dark wood floors in the
office (also on the first floor as you come into the front door) and I
love them but I'm not sure if they would look good throughout the
house.  Our baseboards and trim work are a light wood color (I don't
like them, but whatever) and our doors are just your standard, cheap
hollow core wood grainy doors, also a light color. I don't want
matchy-matchy, but I also don't want a completely browned out look in
the kitchen.  So, what do you think would go nicely with the
orangy/honey oak cabinets?  What wood and stain?  I am considering tile
in the kitchen and wood everywhere else but then there would be soooo
many flooring options in the house.  I would want to keep the linoleum
in the walk-in pantry and the laundry room right off the kitchen.  So
we would have, two different hardwoods, carpet up the stairs, tile and
linoleum.  Please help with any advice!

  KfKirsch@gmail.com writes:

Tis a good question.   One thing to make you feel a bit at ease
though:

        all woods live nicely together in the forest.  

Answering this question in a text medium is tough.  If you had a photo
of the place and provided a link to it (don't post the actual jpg),
perhaps it'd be easier to suggest something.

Also leaf from design magazines and such at a big bookstore, and
perhaps your eye will be grabbed by something.

--
Todd H.  
http://www.toddh.net/

 KfKirsch@gmail.com wrote in news:1143501198.948377.199800
@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:


This sounds facetious, but go with whatever catches your fancy.  We have
four different colours of hardwood on our main floor, and it looks fine (at
least we think so).  We did paint out the dark stained oak baseboards, and  
the cheap veneered hollow-core doors -- looks much better.

The only advice I can pass on -- don't make your flooring the same colour
as your cabinets.  Contrast works better than having it all the same (or
even worse, almost the same).

This isn't lighted very well, but it gives you an idea:
http://members.shaw.ca/murraypeterson/reno-finished.jpg

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Murray Peterson

 
Agreed.  Either go darker like in your office, or light like your doors and
trim.  Don't use anything near the cabinet color.

Furthermore - sounds like you should consider re-facing or painting the
cabinets.  If you describe them as "orangey", you probably don't really like
them.  Then you can have more options.

From reading into your post a bit, you like the darker floors, don't like the
current cabinet finish, so you should go with the darker floors and then think
what cabinet finishing you'd like that would work with that.  Paint is cheap;
refinishing isn't bad.  But that's just my off-hand take on it ...

Banty


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 I thought about painting the cabinets but all that stripping and
sanding and priming and painting.  Won't it take like centuries to do
all that?  And I'm worried about it adhering so that it doesn't scratch
off.  I like white painted cabinets so that would go with anything.  I
think I've settled the issue though.

I'm now thinking a honey colored red-oak beveled edge floor throughout
everything except the kitchen.  And then either ceramic tile in a
diamond pattern or the peel and stick linoleum tiles in a blue and
white diamond pattern.

Thanks for everyone's input!