Going through photos we took at the floor center (without the counter, paint or cabinet swatches). If I had to guess, far left is nebbia oak, middle is Tortona, left is giardino. left side of sideways piece is Lince - like this one but it's 12 mil. Tortona (long center piece) was a top pick but we didn't commit because it's really light. And now we can't see anything in person...

I don't remember this color, wasn't Shaw. Kind of brown, kind of grey. Could be Trenton Oak, Westlake Oak... .

I think that one would work best

I've had a white floor in my kitchen for 20 years. I love it! It looks great and is easy to clean.

In my own personal opinion, here is what I think might be going on with the colors, and let me first clarify that no, you should not replace countertops at this point especially when everything else can still be manipulated to coordinate with them. So, I agree the warm browns in your samples aren't working. However, neither do any of the other cooler, dark colors jump right out at me as the perfect pick. They are tending to want to lean to the gray side whereas your counters and cabinets are more rich and warm, but even more than that, they are closing in on your cabinetry color in similarity. It is hard to make colors work together when you have two strong but yet different dark colors at the same time. I think your husband might be on to something about a lighter floor to provide more defined contrast, but the light sample you have is too yellow. Also, your current flooring is light, and I am afraid you might not be prepared for the total change in feel a dark floor would infuse into your space. You will need more lighting to compensate, and the effect may be depressing for you without a lot of other light finishes to balance it out. For that reason, I would suggest you consider the following two Shaw LVP options, Dawson Ridge Iced Oak and Chardonnay Belleview. The first might be too gray and the second too brown, but both of these lean to more of a neutral than your previous options, I think, and based on photos seem like they might coordinate with your counters. Try to get the builder to take photos of the final sample in your space with your lighting to confirm. Or, if you have your sample color pieces with you, perhaps you could obtain a sample of flooring where you are to compare. The builder could possibly ship your other sample pieces to you if you left them behind. It's a huge investment with long-term ramifications, and you want to get this right the first time.

https://shawfloors.com/flooring/laminate/details/dawson-ridge-sa596/iced-oak

https://shawfloors.com/flooring/laminate/details/belleview-sa564/chardonnay

Thank you. I don't want the house to be gray and cold. I like that it feels warmer, even though I really don't care for any of it. The builder only offered a couple of options. I chose grey over beige walls and didn't like how cold the homes with all grey looked so the builder suggested these warmer options for everything else.

None of the floor colors I posted with the cabinets are our options. They're all other brands and colors but it was all I could do with what I had at Lowes. I was hoping it could help me go in a direction - light, dark, warm, cool, brown, grey.

I appreciate your insight about the darker floors. I hate our current light tile and really didn't want to get something even close to what is there now. My husband didn't want to pay extra for floors so we got the tile, it was all light. I was actually excited about them redoing the floors so I could get rid of the really light tiles. The light color was the lightest I could find when I was looking. I think a washed oak would look good and would be more timeless than grey. I just don't like light floors.

I don't like the counters and if we don't sell, I want to rip them out. I wouldn't do that to try to match a floor. Ideally I'd like to change the counters, backsplash and cabinet colors. I really have my heart set on a pearl backsplash but it won't work with what we have now. Changing the kitchen colors is more for that than to match a floor. I definitely wouldn't change the kitchen for a floor.

We bought the house 2 years ago so the builder doesn't have access anymore. No one can take photos in the house as we aren't there and I wouldn't feel comfortable giving a key code and having people in my home. Lowes has samples of our counter, paint, and cabinet colors but nothing that we can take with us to a flooring store. I ordered a sample of our counter but the piece I got was extremely brown and looked nothing like what's in our house.

I need to narrow our colors down and order samples that we could take with us to Lowes but we're running out of time. They have to order the vinyl, take everything out of our home, repair the foundation, lay the new floors, and put everything back. They estimate we'll be out of the house 2-3 weeks. At this point, it looks like we'll miss 4th ofJuly and possibly the entire summer. I'm stressed. This needed to be done months ago. :(

We would likely only go with the following collections so these are our swatches: All have a lifetime warranty, an attached pad and are waterproof, embossed, and have an accent bevel

Titan: 30 mil, 12 mm thick, 9x72" boards, 20 year commercial warranty

Alto: 20 mil, 8 mm thick, 8x72" boards, 10 year commercial warranty

Antica/Pantheon: 20 mil, 8 mm thick, 7x48" boards, 10 year commercial warranty. I worry the smaller boards won't look as good in our very large open space but they have a lot of colors I like.

I don't have many photos of the house and what I have doesn't look great. The photoshop floors and swatches aren't true to color. So it's photoshopping bad on bad but it might help get ballpark so we can order samples.

In no particular order.

Shaw Modern Oak - Titan Series, 30 mil, 9x72" boards, light for my tastes

Shaw Calcare - Antica/Pantheon series, 20 mil, 7x48" boards, grey with some brown, small boards

Shaw Saggio - Antica/Pantheon series, 20 mil, 7x48" boards, brown with some grey, like Calcare's opposite, small boards. Prefer the 12 mil color Sabbia to this one.

Shaw Giardino - Antica/Pantheon series, 20 mil, 7x48" boards, liked this one in person but would be committing to grey trend, worry too much grey will make house look cold, small boards

Shaw Fiano - Antica/Pantheon series, 20 mil, 7x48" boards, liked this one in person but not in photoshop, small boards

Shaw Arcadia Barnboard - Titan Series, 30 mil, 9x72" boards, worry this will look too stripey

Shaw Plato Oak - Titan Series, 30 mil, 9x72" boards, looks very smooth in photoshop, kinda meh

Shaw Lince - 12 mil so wouldn't pick it but I like it.

Shaw Chiatta - 12 mil so wouldn't pick it but I like the color. The photoshop is messed up so it looks weird.

Shaw Alto isn't on photoshop but I like the 72" boards and detail on the planks. I'd like to see some

Shaw Tortona - kind of light but seems similar to what we have now

Shaw Alassio

Shaw Sanremo

Silver lined nailed it. What the heck just move in. You have porcelain tile that you will rip out and put LVP in? Does this tile run everywhere in the home? What is the ‘big picture’ here?

My husband picked the tile because he didn't want any upgrades on the house. The builder had maybe 3 options for tile, 2 for cabinets, 4 for counters, 4 for paint. it's a cookie cutter house and limiting options saves them money. I originally was going to go with Napoli white granite but the builder convinced me to get Crema Pearl.

I am picking the floors based on what is in there now. If we sold the house, it would be with the counters and cabinets that are there. But I'd also keep in mind that I want to change the counters if we stayed. I like pearl backsplash, white quartz counters.

I had quotes and to redo the kitchen cabinets and counters, it will cost about 8,000. A large expense but I'd rather spend a little and love it. I spent over 2,000 to change the color of my Jeep, why not fix up the house.

I'm not repainting the walls. There's too much to paint.

I don't understand why you would suggest getting a cheap floor and how it could just cover the area that needs repair.

We have ceramic tile. They don't make the color anymore. My daughter fell on the tile and has a permanent dent in her head. I hate the tile. The tile covers the first floor and the bathrooms upstairs. The builder is repairing our foundation and will install any shaw vinyl plank. We're not paying for the floors.

Sorry, kid had swim lessons, no time to really respond earlier. I really appreciate your thoughts.

My husband just retired from the military. We bought the house when we were living in San Antonio, TX. Now we are in Annapolis MD. It was a brand new development and we figured getting in early would mean we would build equity and could sell if we needed to. We aren't sure if we will sell the house or move back into it. He didn't want to do a ton of upgrades so we got the standard builder options which included the light tiles.

We figured if we stayed, we could upgrade things on our own, with things we wanted, not the one or two options they offered. This wasn't like when my sister built and went to a design center to pick everything she wanted. I didn't like any of the options the builder had. Many of my neighbors have changed the tiles, backsplash, cabinets, and shower surrounds, bathroom counters. They're all brand new homes, but many neighbors are putting money into making them their own. We planned to do the same if we stayed.

The foundation needs to be repaired, through the entire length of the house, the porch, and the garage. It's about 2000 sq ft of indoor space on the first floor plus two bathrooms upstairs. They are ripping out the floors and we can replace them with any Shaw vinyl, we aren't limited to the colors they are using in the new builds and they're offering upgrades over what they normally put in. We wouldn't have paid to replace that much flooring and since they're offering us the higher priced vinyl, we are choosing to get that rather than cheaper vinyl.

I listed our colors because the floors need to look good with what we have. If we don't end up moving back there, we wouldn't change anything (except the floors which have to be replaced anyway at zero cost to us).

If we move back there, I will likely want to change the kitchen colors. I really want a glittery pearl backsplash. I'm just keeping that in mind so that whatever we pick to match what's there now would also look good if I change the kitchen in the future.