Should I Use White Oak Flooring With Oak Cabinets?
- Add interest to a white oak room by adding decor items and backsplashestiles image by charles taylor from Fotolia.com
Oak is a beautiful wood that is used to make many household objects. This high value wood is worth keeping. If you also want oak flooring, you can alter your cabinets to suit the floors. Robin Daly from Daly's Paint and Decorating recommends painting oak cabinets to add visual interest or changing the doors to give oak cabinets a modern look. - Wood grain matters to the eyeFragment of board 3 image by amlet from Fotolia.com
If you choose flooring that looks very similar to your cabinets, you may not get the clean look that you want. Instead, you might get a monotone look that is sterile and unappealing. If your cabinets are floor to ceiling, then you will have one color in most of your room. Architect Bill Hirsch recommends having two different grains and two different colors in the flooring and the cabinetry to add visual interest. - A bright chair can add life to a white roomred leather chair image by Andrejs Pidjass from Fotolia.com
You can change your old cabinets to work with the floor that you want and add decor items to add interest to the room. However, it is easier to simply get a floor that works with your cabinets so that you do not create a monotone look in the room.
