Help with kitchen floor and cabinet color selection
We need to replace our kitchen floor and decided that instead of a full kitchen remodel we would replace the floor, paint the cabinets, replace cabinet hardware, and possibly replace the backsplash. We are keeping the black granite countertops for now. They are black with some faint grey, green and brown marbly tone if you look closely. We have narrowed our choices down to our top three favorites and need some help.
1. Olive green lower cabinets, white upper cabinets, black or brass hardware, and black and white checkerboard floor
2. Olive green lower cabinets, white upper cabinets, black or brass hardware, and wood look tile floor laid in herringbone pattern
3. All white cabinets, black hardware, black and white checkerboard floor
4. Pewter instead of olive green
see attached pictures for current kitchen, floor
choices, and colors
Comments (10)
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PRO3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI'm not fond of the light wood option for the kitchen. A medium tone wood might be a better selection IMO.
As you remodel the kitchen remember to add a panel to the side of the fridge to make it appear like it's built-in.
emilysmith2 thanked BeverlyFLADeziner- 3 years ago
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoFew questions.
Are you happy w/this layout?
Are the cabinets solid wood and in good condition?
have you gotten a quote from a cabinet painter? How do they prep? Prime?
Paint-spray or?
The ONE thing I would for sure tell you to add is a fridge surround. Your fridge hanging out in the breeze really lowers the overall look of the kitchen. like someone forgot something.Wouldn't this look a million times better? (and bring out the over the top cab so you can actually use it! )
looks like you have room on the side for a storage cab. you can have these made, or buy them. your cabinet painter (if they're good) will have a cabinet maker on hand that does modifications. for mine they did the vent hood and the drawers on my island)
Your before looks very close to mine!
I got everything painted, refaced the doors/drawers (you'll notice my drawers had slabs on the top. I wanted all to match) New flooring-french oak engineered wood. If the herringbone would have been available in this at the time (it is now) I would have gone w/that. new countertops/backsplash, and I moved the micro, put in a few drawers.
also notice I had a nice vent hood made. I'd seriously consider doing the same and losing that more modern SS hood you currently have.Is your granite uba tuba or Verde something?
this is one of my favortie olive gree/gold kitchens. But this is soapstone or a black granite called Virginia Mist.
why are you leaving the granite top? you don't have that much to do if you did want it replaced.
Love the emily henderson. love the floors. however, hers is done w/all white tops/walls. notice the fridge surround/doors, diff hood than yours.
I really like this green too, but the dark top on the island is honed, the floors are oak.
I also like the porcelain black and white tiles. (ChrisLovesJulia did those in her home)The herringbone wood floors I also love, but have you priced those? the pre-milled herringbone costs a lot more and is more expensive to have installed.
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- 3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago
the one you pictured is a chevron.
I do like it, but it has to relate to the other part of the house. It's a bit more on the transitional side.the black/white, I believe are 18" or 24" ? the bigger the better.
why not paint a door a few sample colors, get a sample piece of the tile, and see how it looks w/your granite.
I understand trying to work with it, but trust me, You are changing everything else in this kitchen. You'll wish you got rid of the uba tuba. I really tried working around my granite too, but I just couldn't deal w/it any longer. Changing out the countertops will be the cheapest thing in that entire kitchen remodel! (besides the backsplash).
If you demo everything yourselves, you'll save at least 1K.
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