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Dining room with light wooden floors

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We just bought our first home, and are unsure what color wooden dining table/bench/chairs we should be looking at with these light wooden floors. Our kitchen, which is next to/open to the dining room, is pretty much all white. Any advice is welcome, thanks!

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    Is the floor LVP? I am asking because LVP are difficult to photograph. Your top photo looks different than the bottom one.


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    Congratulations on the new house.

    I agree, those two photos look like completely different colored floors!

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    The thing about that floor is the broad range of tone, light to dark. And the same range of table/chars is going to work. Start looking.

  • PRO
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    These might be the easiest to find in the market, but you also might consider a painted table and chairs for the area.



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    Hi all - thank you for the suggestions. It is LVP- the first photo is from the listing, the second one i took with the lights on during the day day

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    Do you want to replace what you have? You could always grt a rug and then it would soften the transition frpm

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    I would prefer a lighter wood with your white kitchen... the darker woods might look ok with the flooring but are too high contrast with all the white...not sure of your style since I think everything pictured was from the listing


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    Correct, everything posted is from listing. We do not like the current table at all.

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    The floor is more gray than tan, more like the first pic. Here is another pic, same floor

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    Well a wood like I posted won't look good with that gray. Maybe black iron legs/base with a white top? Stone, or quartz maybe?




  • PRO
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    IMO first change all the lighting to LED in the same color I like 4000K but 3500K is fine but all the same for all the lighting. Then you hve a true idea of the floor color. Why a wood table at all? What is your style ? That is where you start in choosing any furniture.

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    Our style is California coastal, we really like big wooden dining tables. Just can’t really figure out if we should go dark, light, or somewhere in between.

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    With floors that have grey in them i personal think white or black is good. Other wood colours will clash with the grey flooring. Again a rug can diffuse it a bit.

  • PRO
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    Pick a colour that coordinates with one of the colours in your floor, then I would go with upholstered chairs.


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    The flooring will suit all kinds of combinations and suggest looking for on line inspiration. Save the ones that reflect the look you are after, including size and shape. How you pull things together is also important, so be sure to consider the big picture vs just the floor.





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    I think you have a lot of options but here’s a table with more grey in it. It would work well with the flooring and relate well to your kitchen cabinets.

  • PRO
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    A round table and chairs would be nice in that area too.


  • PRO
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    Here's another option with creamy white upholstered chairs and black table. Greige roman shades on the windows and side curtains on black rod for the patio door.

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    I'd stay away from white and black in order to warm the space up a bit. The pic you took makes the floors look a lot more brown than the listing pics, which look incredibly grey. I'd go for a medium toned wood.


    Congrats on your new place.

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    Get a table in wood that is the lightest shade of gray from the floor--light, light driftwood direction. Get upholstered chairs in off white, driftwood or black legs. This palette would work:

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    https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/how-to-mix-match-and-coordinate-wood-stains-undertones/


    Kylie shows pictures of all the various wood tones and their undertones. With your flooring you want woods that have a pink/violet undertone, same as you would want in a neutral wall color.



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    @Jennifer Hogan: what an interesting article on coordinating with all the great real wood floorings and other "givens" like wood cabinets. Everybody should read this before buying wood furniture whether it's stained or painted or deciding on wood flooring finish. Sometimes just chair, table, or sofa legs are all that's needed to link pieces to flooring or cabinets.

    I notice she didn't really include that awful gray/driftwood hope-it's-dying gray flooring trend (LPV versions even worse). She considers them a different beast and will do a separate blog. Those gray floors (she says they're really kind of purple!!!) are so limiting. Say you inherit a fantastic wood table or see a great natural wood table on FB Marketplace. Nothing will be more jarring than that great table with a gray LPV floor. Some Houzz Design Dilemma folk abhor any flooring with an orange tinge, but that can be more easily toned down than gray warmed up. It's easier to pair with colors that harmonize with slightly orange wood than gray flooring. Choosing white oak flooring can give you a slight gray tone if you must have it. Otherwise, hard pass on gray flooring.

  • PRO
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    The dining set in your photo seems too heavy and formal to coordinate well with your space. A lighter colored wood dining set with a casual and updated feel should be nice. A white dining set might work even better.

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    @Norwood Architects - so we want to avoid white/black since our kitchen is completely white. we are looking at something like this:


    https://www.potterybarn.com/products/toscana-extending-dining-table-seadrift/?subGroupId=toscana-extending-dining-table-seadrift-SPAF-finish-remainder&cm_sp=ossa-18678_bestseller_variant


    in either the seadrift or gray wash color, with maybe a rug underneath to sort of break it up. Do you think that will work?

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    @acm - true! we want to do a long rectangle table, but that color she chose looks great


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    @housegal200 - she actually does cover some of the violet undertones as well.


    I hate that everyone and their brother used the gray weathered flooring during the gray trend.

    I happen to love purple and have a ton of purples and wine reds in my decor. Violet gray and taupe work beautifully with purple, where it does not work with many other wood tones beautifully.


    I used stone look LVT in my current home and tile in my last home, but if I had wood I would likely want a weathered stain as most others would not work as well with the colors I love.


    This is why I always tell people to start their color palette with the colors they love and work backwards toward the neutrals that work well with their favorite colors. If we all did this we wouldn't be stuck in one trend after the other and we would have so much more variety.



  • PRO
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    Both of the Pottery Barn finishes would work well. Personally I'd lean more to the Seadrift because I like that it has a bit of grey but also the gold tone of your flooring. A rug underneath it will be a good choice. It's always a good idea to get a sample of the finishes before a purchase just to make sure it looks like it does online. Seems to be a good choice though!

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    @Emily thank you so much, this is super helpful! We were hoping the sellers had a sample of the floor that we could take to pottery barn to be safe, but i dont believe they do. But a rug should probably break it up anyways, we were thinking something somewhat neutral

  • PRO
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    Neutral would be a great way to go on the rug. Hope you enjoy your new home!

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    You can just go to a flooring store and get samples to bring to Pottery Barn. Also take closeup photos on your phone.