Help with downstairs flooring dilemma

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

Hi we have just moved into a new house and I am struggling to choose flooring. So far we have decided to go with a 12mm laminate floor which will flow through the whole area (105sq yards in total-hall, living rooms, kitchen/diner). That's all we can decide on so far, what colour to go for is the dilemma!

We have oak doors and oak trimming and kick boards on our kitchen. I am considering painting the kitchen trims cream and that leaves more options for choice of colour for flooring. Another option is to also paint the doors white too.....

I am concerned about getting the trims painted as this will be different to the high gloss finish of the cupboard doors, also risking ruining the kitchen?

There is currently a lino floor at the moment which looks OK in pics but in reality it's horrible!

So do we stick with oak coloured flooring which ties in with existing wood. Or paint all of the wood and free us up to pick other colours?

Any suggestions?!?

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Kittihawke
7 years ago
You could do a black paint trim over the wooden bits. It would go with the work tops. But not so much with the creamy doors; Or get all of the kitchen units spray painted white? I think if you try to match the floor with the wood of the units in the kitchen you may leave yourself open to a mismatch or even just an overload of wood. I didn't feel there was enough black there as the island top kind of took me by surprise on first seeing it. But could you remove that granite altogether and see how it looks then? Maybe it's the black that's the problem not the wood at all
Vicky Hanratty thanked Kittihawke
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