Kitchen Reno - Advice?

mhwood

We just bought a house and the kitchen is going to be our winter project. Currently, it has dark wood floors (which we are definitely keeping, I love them) and stainless with black appliances. 

Someone told me that because the floors are dark, we should go with lighter cabinets and counters. But, I think that would seem strange.....

Any advice? 

MrsT624

Our kitchen has a dark gray floor, cream cabinets, and dark countertops. We painted the walls a light beige-ish gray and I think it looks great )

My parents have cherry floors and cherry cabinets, but have light countertops.  I also like the way that looks.

+PuppyWuppy+

We have dark floors, bright white cabinets and black granite in a portion of our kitchen and a light green granite on our island.

What is most important is to balance out the floors. I don't think dark floors and dark cabinets would look good unless you were VERY careful about your backsplash and countertops. 

Sapphire70

My favorite style is ss appliances, dark wood floors, white cabinets, and marble counters - lovely

like this:

 

AZ123

You just need contrast between the floors and the cabinets. Otherwise, it looks weird. So you'd want either a really light wood or white to contrast with the dark floors.

alshor2

AZ123:

You just need contrast between the floors and the cabinets. Otherwise, it looks weird. So you'd want either a really light wood or white to contrast with the dark floors.

Completely agree. We just bought a house with light wood cabinet, light granite countertops, white floors and white appliances. I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out a cheap and efficient way to fix it.