Just a few thoughts for you:

1. I like the wood in the kitchen. It looks nice with your cabinets, and works with the counters. I would re-think changing the kitchen floors to brick.

2. I would really re-think any idea of gray walls. It will make your house look so trendy for 2017.

3. I would consider extending the wood that you have in the kitchen to anywhere else you want wood (probably not baths, laundry, and mudroom, but everywhere else is fine -- and wood is fine for a lightly used powder room too). If you want to take the stain a little lighter, you can have the existing floors sanded down, and have it all stained to match. Emphasize with your contractor that you want it to match when it is done.

4. Is there wood flooring under the kitchen island? I might think about waiting on all of this until knowing if that island is functional, or if it needs to go -- or if there are any other changes that are needed to the kitchen.

Thanks for the feedback.

Any thoughts on how painting the trim/wainscoting white in the front half of the house would work with the wood panels in the living room, loft and office area? And how to find a wood flooring that would look good with both wood and white wainscoting/trim?

1. I like the wood in the kitchen. It looks nice with your cabinets, and works with the counters. I would re-think changing the kitchen floors to brick.

3. I would consider extending the wood that you have in the kitchen to anywhere else you want wood (probably not baths, laundry, and mudroom, but everywhere else is fine -- and wood is fine for a lightly used powder room too). If you want to take the stain a little lighter, you can have the existing floors sanded down, and have it all stained to match. Emphasize with your contractor that you want it to match when it is done.

Yeah, we're debating on waiting on the brick floors until we do the rest of the kitchen later down the road, and considered a refinish-restain to match the new wood floors elsewhere. Thanks for further cementing that as an solid option.

2. I would really re-think any idea of gray walls. It will make your house look so trendy for 2017.

Any suggestions on wall colors that would go well with all the wood? We want to get away from the tan and pure white, since the tan on wood just is too much.

You already have painted wainscotting in the dining room. If you like that look, then that's how you would do the other wainscotting (just keep it consistent. However, I am fine with some painted and some stained wainscotting.

As far as the floors go, I think the color you have is fine. If you want to go lighter though, pick something that works with the kitchen cabinets and commit to it (including in the kitchen). Then you'll pick your paint color(s). There are 10,000 paint colors out there, and many of them will work. But you'll want what works with YOUR furniture. Since we haven't seen that, it is hard to give you more input.

I'd keep the wood flooring and extend it into the carpeted areas-the current stain looks good with your kitchen and trim. I wouldn't put brick in a kitchen since it's so hard under foot and the wide grout and pitted nature of brick would be a cleaning issue for me in that kind of space.

If you search around on this forum, you'll likely see that "the popular style of tday gray walls" is actually trending out (and tends to have that flipped house connotation) so I'd go with a warm white paint if you must repaint especially since you have wonderful warm wood details everywhere. If you want dark, then perhaps a dark green or navy depending on any upholstered furnishings you'll place in the office instead of gray charcoal. Skip the black doorknobs-reads too much like "modern farmhouse" details which is ill-suited to your traditional home.

Gray was in for about 13 years, but starting in 2021 the design world started to move away from gray. Model homes in my area started to transition to taupe colors to warm up all that cold gray from previous years. Even if it was still in, it really isn't the right color for the house style you have.

Thanks, ok, gray is out, look more towards warm whites to not be overwhelmed by wood floors and all the wood paneling?

Keep your solution simple.

Brick in the kitchen is a maintenance nightmare.

I don't follow how you can LOVE the wood so much and then talk about gray walls and white trim. If you wanted that you should have purchased a different home. THIS IS A WOOD HOME.

Select the same wood and finish used in the kitchen for all the rooms that will change from carpet to wood flooring. Here is your den in the oak wood floor. If there is too much wood, consider painting the wood cove and the cased openings to match the walls.

Here you can see the appearance when a colorful area rug is installed.

Select a tile or marble for the flooring in the foyer. Keep the stained wainscotting since it goes with the rest of the home. You can install a marble floor to dress up the foyer.

Or you can continue to run the oak floor to the front door.

Thanks, Beverly. We do like the wood character in a few of the rooms, but we don't necessarily want it to be overwhelming. The location, lot, and house size, which are almost impossible to find in the area we want to live (took 2 years), as well as the character of those rooms (which would be super expensive to add to a different home) are the reason we bought the home. We would prefer to have the character of those rooms and work with the rest of the house than to have the gray theme. Just mentioning we like the pop of gray/white/dark floors, just in case someone had ideas to replicate the feel of the pop with a palette that works with all the wood.

> If there is too much wood, consider painting the wood cove and the cased openings to match the walls.

Sounds good. What about the tan walls and pure white walls? While we like a light color, seems a bit too much with all the wood? Would you also recommend a warm white? What if we wanted to add color undertone? I'm hearing blue or green undertones from searching I've done.

Furniture is flexible. We're moving from a small house, so most of our existing furniture will get relegated to non-main rooms.