Do not put fake wood next to real wood. Why not use your existing flooring in your kitchen as well? Or go with tile. Those are the only 2 options I see.

I'm sorry but both the "concept" of fake-wood look product next to real wood AND your colour choice for said fake-wood product will clash with what you already have.

Often times I suggest working with the COUNTER TOP material. Yep. Get your floors to talk to your counter tops will end pretty much all of this discussion. So a pic of our counter top will help us point you in the right direction.

As for colour of the floors sitting side by side = nothing you can do until you refinish the hardwoods. And this is something you NEED to think about very seriously. If the wood floors are 15 years or older, it is time to look at getting them refinished in the next 5-7 years. Yep. That's right around the corner when it comes to renos.

That means you need to step back and assess the ENTIRE HOME - not just the kitchen/wood floor transition. As it stands, you have a cool toned kitchen with very warm hardwoods in the rest of the house. There was BOUND to be a clash. You couldn't help it. Cool and warm often clash HEAVILY.

So...time to sit down and have a think. By taking 1-2 weeks to make a decision TODAY about what will happen TOMORROW (or 5 years from now) will save you THOUSANDS of dollars! Nope. I am not kidding. We've seen people RIP OUT their new renos because they FAILED to plan ahead.

Those pretty new floors you put in today will need to work with tomorrow's wood colour. Which means you need to be HAPPY with a wood colour before you even PURCHASE the kitchen floor. Yes. Working backwards from "Design Concept" to "finished product" is how the entire design industry works.

But I digress. Please show us photos of your counter tops. And let us know how old those hardwoods are. We'll take it from there.

Why not just continue that beautiful REAL wood into the kitchen?

I agree fake food next to real wood isn't going to work, neither these two coors will, and that all the space should be considered together, to make a successful transition

Any possibility of you showing us the space, not just the flooring, so we can see how spaces relate to each other?

sometimes the best way to go(small space, or very open space) is just to continue the wood(if possible of course.) for your peace of mind cabinets themselves can be installed on tile-in rare case you have extensive water damage, you don't need to take out the cabinets. If that's a concern here.

in other cases, there's quite natural way to make a transition. What it will be-will depend on your givens..the rest of the elements, your needs and preferences, and last but not least-the style of the house

Different material can be stone, can be other type of tile (not neccessarily all tiles mimick stone), can be vinyl or linoleum that's not mimicking stone either and is not splotchy

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plan of the space if you can share it with us? style of the house if can be easily defined?

If no chances of you continuing that wood (I'd do it here if possible.)-I'd go for deliberate well considered contrast, and will be tempted to keep flooring light/mid-range.

yes, your choice of countertop influences your choice of flooring too, and vice versa

Having floors refinished is not incredibly expensive. In fact, it will be way less expensive (and better looking) than anything budget-friendly you can find.

I have gone through some older homes for sale and have been turned off by a gray and white kitchen or bath in an otherwise warm toned home. When that happens, it looks like an alien kitchen landed in the home. A friend of mine did a new kitchen in her victorian. The cabinets are white, but the floor is a warm wood, ceiling a beadboard painted light green and the overall style of the kitchen was done in a way that compliments the older style of her home.

Also, the white gray trend is somewhat overdone. White cabinets are still popular, but mix them with warmer tones. To be honest, if this is a true craftsmen older home, I would start over and do a craftsman kitchen. Warmer toned cabinets are back in style and the more a kitchen matches the overall style of the home the more timeless it is. Buyers do want a cohesive look, not just a new kitchen.

Your floors look like natural oak where the oil based finish has yellowed / amber over time. If you refinish, consider natural with a water based finish.

I also suggest continuing the hardwoods into the kitchen. It may be possible to have new floor finished to match the old. In our last ktichen we kept original flooring (House was built in 1926) but because we expanded into what had been the laundry room we had to add to the existing flooring. Our floors had been refinished just four years prior (before we bought the house) so we did not want to refinished again. Our GC was able to match quite well. I would at least find out if this is possible.

And yes, that’s oak. Might be red oak, might be white oak with some stain, I’m not good enough to tell the difference.

If you want to leave the hardwood and have a floor that "flows" with the wood, then you are going to be looking at WARM tones, not cool. You can look at travertine-look or lime-stone looking product (vinyl or porcelain).

You do NOT have to stick with vinyl planks or tiles. There are some VERY handsome sheet products that mimic stone or tile. These new products are not your grandma's vinyl floors. They are very handsome.

Or one of my favourites for white-on-white-on-white kitchens = blue slate. One of the drawbacks of all white kitchens is they are boring. Sigh. As pretty as they look in magazines, then are deathly boring to live with. The really BEAUTIFUL white kitchens (the one's that win all the awards) have MASSIVE windows...I mean 80% of the wall space is WINDOWS. The natural lighting (changes throughout the day because of all the WINDOWS) becomes the "star" of the white kitchen. Your space does not lean in that direction.

In fact, your kitchen only has a single window which is going to be the single source of natural light. That can make a white kitchen look dingy if you do not add contrast.

You can have a stunning white kitchen with a darker floor. In fact the floor can be the "moody" part. Instead of having the mood stream through the windows (which you do not have), you can have the FLOORS act as the moody part. A slate will do that. And BLUE slate looks STUNNING against wood floors such as yours. It's a nice way to get cold white kitchen to play nicely with warm cinnamon brown floors.

In my last house we had Durastone in our bathrooms. At first I was hesitant, but they were really great & I would purchase them again. Always looked clean & were not cold like ceramic tile.

https://www.everstone.com/catalogue/durastone-tiles/

When we had our 1940 kitchen renovated we took out the old linoleum and had the hardwood floor extended into the kitchen. Its consistent with the rest of the house, and the contrast of the stained oak floor with white cabinets is very attractive. We were moving to a much more open floor plan, and using the same flooring worked much better.

Our contractor did what they called a toothpick transition of new floor to old by removing some of the old boards in a staggered fashion. They then found new oak flooring of the same thickness and width, laid it in with the old, and refinished it all the same color. The transition from old to new floor is invisible.

Bruce

You could do a creative divide between the floors...

However I do agree with others - that particular floor just doesn't go at all...

Good luck! It will be fun to see what you choose to do!