White kitchen with wooden floor

Would We Do It Again?

If we could do it all over again, would we choose a white kitchen with dark wood floors?

When it became painfully clear that we had an Emergency Kitchen Demo on our hands, I had to suddenly start thinking about the new kitchen we had to put in…fast.

Rocking a six-month-old infant to sleep on my lap, I turned to the only design sounding board I had at the time (besides me, myself and I): the internet.

But I didn’t go to the internet for the biggest decision: cabinet color. I instinctively knew what our space needed. And that was white.

Yes, white cabinets. White white white cabinets. All day long.

(See the precise logic of why we did white cabinets here. This space absolutely needed it. Follow your gut!)

And I didn’t go to the internet for what I thought was the next-biggest decision: flooring!

I already knew what I wanted. Ever since we’d bought our first house almost 10 years prior, I’d wanted dark wood floors. I’d admired the crisp look of white-walled homes and white kitchens with dark wood floors for so many years, I couldn’t count them.

(If you’re not sure what color or style of kitchen flooring you want, you’ll want to read our 25 Pros & Cons of Dark vs Light Hardwood Floors!)

Take the tour of our downstairs HERE!

So when I say I went to the internet, it was to choose everything after that point. I’d already made the decision that I wanted a white kitchen with dark wood floors and light cabinets and drawers. (Actually, we did almost 50 drawers & ZERO lower cabinets in our kitchen!)

Now the question was how to go about choosing those other details, but more on that later!

First, let’s dive into the most popular questions on this topic:

“Why do a kitchen with wood floors and white cabinets in the first place?”
“Should I do light or dark wood floors with white cabinets?”
“What are the pros and cons of dark hardwood floors?”
“What if I want some rooms to be light and some to be dark?”
“Would you do dark hardwood floors again?”

See all our design tips & tricks HERE.

WHITE KITCHEN WITH DARK WOOD FLOORS:

“Why do a kitchen with wood floors and white cabinets in the first place?

If you’re not sure what color or style of kitchen flooring you want, you’ll want to read our 25 Pros & Cons of Dark vs Light Hardwood Floors!

Let’s say you’ve determined you want a kitchen with wood floors (any color) and white cabinets. Maybe you’ve had tile before, and you want the warmer, slightly softer feel of wood floors. Or maybe you want hardwood floors throughout the rest of your home, and you’d like to extend the wood floors into the kitchen for consistency.

Whatever your reason, going for a kitchen with wood floors and white cabinets is a classic look that will never go out of style! Yes, I’m making that claim!

I feel like it’s like blue jeans. They’re classic, right? You can pair them with anything.

So yes, you can quote me.?

“A kitchen with wood floors and white cabinets are the blue jeans of the home. ”

– Jess

Even in this photo with just a slice of dark wood
kitchen floors showing, you can see how stunning that pop of contrast makes it!

Now, I’m not saying there aren’t any other lovely kitchen floor-and-cabinet combos—far from it! But when in doubt, a white kitchen + wood floors is always a safe, classic choice. It can be made “trendy” by things like cabinet style and hardware, but just the starting point alone of

white + wood

is one of the greatest combos in the history of the world. It has the crisp, clean look of the white mixed with the warm, organic feel of the wood.

So really, you can’t go wrong!😄

WHITE KITCHEN WITH DARK WOOD FLOORS:

“Should I do light or dark wood floors with white cabinets?”

Many people wonder whether they should do light or dark wood floors with white cabinets. Now, this really is a question you can only answer after looking at your space, as well as the factors listed in this post I wrote.

I’ll pause while you go read that, then come back here…

Read it? Alright! We’re on the same page, now let’s get back to it!

So let’s say you’ve determined your space can get away with it: dark wood floors with white cabinets. You get plenty of natural light in your kitchen, or you have soaring ceilings, or you just genuinely want that deep, rich, cozy feel in your kitchen from the dark wood floors to contrast with all those white kitchen cabinets.

Then your decision is easy! You now know for sure you want a white kitchen with dark wood floors. You can start moving onto the next step, which is better defining exactly what kind of dark wood floors you want. Your options will range from

sanding and re-staining your current hardwoods
installing new hardwood floors (or engineered hardwoods, or another material)
glossy vs matte
weathered vs smooth (and the whole spectrum between those)
and approximately 17,000 different shades of what constitutes “dark” hardwood floors

However, if you’ve read my post on interior color (it doesn’t apply to just paint! it applies to flooring too!)…

…and, after some thought, determined your kitchen might need to go lighter, then you have your answer! Perhaps your ceilings are on the low side, or you only have one window into your kitchen, or you’d just overall prefer to have the most light, airy kitchen possible!

In that case, going with a light wood floor with white cabinets will bounce more light around your kitchen and give you that look you want. It will be lower-contrast than a white kitchen with dark wood floors, but that decision is totally up to you.

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WHITE KITCHEN WITH DARK WOOD FLOORS:

Our Kitchen with Dark Floors and Light Cabinets

Are you looking for some crisp contrast? Having a white kitchen with dark wood floors achieves that. Below you can see one of our islands (we have two) with extra deep drawers…

Take the tour HERE!

If you come in from our front door and head to the right, down the hallway towards our kitchen, here’s what you’d see (if you’re focusing on our floors, which I hope you won’t, because I only clean them when I’m about to take pictures and put them on the internet! 🤣 only halfway joking):

Does that mean I don’t like cleaning them? No, not at all. I actually like that these floors tell me when they’re dirty…

…but THIS white kitchen is where I’d figure about 97% of our household mess happens! So we clean this area more often than the rest of our floors.

Right about now, you may be wondering about the answer to this next question…

WHITE KITCHEN WITH DARK WOOD FLOORS:

Would we do it again?

GOOD QUESTION!?

No, really. It’s a good question!

But you’d have to clarify more before I could give you an answer.

Ya see, if you’ve read my post about how to choose interior colors (yes, I will keep encouraging you to read it until you’ve read it—I’m convinced it’s THAT helpful!), you’ll know that choosing the right color of your floor is dependent on so many factors.

We chose the combination we did for this house, in all its unique glory.

So would we choose dark hardwood floors again, such as, in our next house?

Answer: Depends on the house!

But if you’re asking, “If you could go back in time and do your white kitchen with dark wood floors again, would you?” that’s one I’d have to think about in order to be 100% honest with you.

The thing is, they’re not difficult to clean. And that’s the #1 reason I hear about people poo-pooing dark hardwood floors. They are 100% the same to clean as light hardwood floors. The difference is in how much they show you whatever debris is on them (and what color is your debris? i.e. do you have a white dog or a black dog?).

I’ll go more into this next week in my “Pros & Cons of Light vs Dark Hardwood Floors” post, but for now the easy answer to give you is YES, we would do them again.

Here’s a shot of our white kitchen with dark wood floors from last year. (You can tell it’s from last year because it’s before we made our DIY ottoman!) You can also see how our floors are not black, they’re just a dark brown, because the barstool legs are black and much darker.)

I hesitated only because I looooooove to experiment with different things, and if I was to be enabled to go back in time with the experience I have now (having experienced how this house and white kitchen look with the dark floors), I might be tempted to try something different! I’m an adventurer!

However, if I couldn’t take my current knowledge “back” with me, then I definitely wouldn’t be tempted to do something different because I am 100% glad we have gotten to try and experience having dark hardwood floors!

It’s like plants. Sometimes I’m dangerous at nurseries because I want to try owning every plant that exists. If I haven’t tried growing X type of avocado before, I wanna try. I want to experience as much as I can. (Hence my Adventurer/Learner personality type.)

WHITE KITCHEN WITH DARK WOOD FLOORS:

Dark vs Light

Question: “What if you have some rooms where you want dark floors and other rooms where you want light floors?”

My answer is in our upcoming post on The 25 Pros and Cons of light vs dark hardwood floors!

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Design of a budget white kitchen with a wooden worktop: 60 photos + video

Design of a white kitchen with a wooden worktop

Headings: All about furniture ² , Kitchens ⁸⁸ , Living rooms ² , Bedrooms ³ , Hallways ²

Today, the combination of white fronts with wood worktops has become very popular in custom-made kitchen design. The tree gives the white kitchen coziness and warmth. And at the same time - it's a neutral combination. A kitchen set in this combination will make it easy to change the interior, adding bright accents at will, mood and season.

In the article we will consider a budget version of wood-look countertops made of chipboard laminated with HPL plastic using postforming technology. The structured coating here imitates not only the color of the tree, but also its texture. The best choice for inexpensive kitchens from medium to medium +. In addition, the choice of colors in this version is great.

Below we will look at various combinations of white + wood on real examples of kitchen sets already installed by KUHNI-NSK. Consider the colors of wood countertops.

White classic with worktop and backsplash under the tree "Oak Niagara"

In the photo below, a classic kitchen set with elegant milling on the facades "Tuscany" and handles with the effect of aging "Zinc monogram" 96mm. Such a corner kitchen fits perfectly into the concept of a private house. The worktop and apron in the kitchen are made in a single design "Oak Niagara".

Oak Niagara wood embossed worktop flows into the window sill, thus increasing the usable work surface.

For more details from creating a 3D project of this kitchen to implementation, see this video:

Kitchen to the ceiling white gloss with a wood-like worktop "Bunratty Oak"

Today it is quite a popular design solution, largely due to the fashion for the Scandinavian style . In such a kitchen there will always be a feeling of lightness, elegant simplicity and naturalness.

The end of the kitchen is made in a wood effect, in the same color "Oak Bunratty". Bunratty is a true classic oak with a hint of warm natural wood. The even and calm structure of the surface includes dark cracks and knots that gently complement the pattern, making the decor as natural and elegant as possible. Apron and flooring in the kitchen - in the same style.

White matte wood kitchen with cabinets of different depths

This corner kitchen set is installed on an area of 5 sq.m in the kitchen-living room. Here, designers in a small space tried to make the most capacious storage area by adding non-standard spacious cabinets on top. A compact kitchen space is a common reality that makes you turn on your own rationality to the maximum.

Most of the kitchen fronts are white matt "Snow White". The second color, Oak Winchester wood, is used only for the bottom row of cabinets. Tabletop - "Golden oak". The color of golden oak can be considered the closest to the color of natural oak, which has a light straw tint. The apron in the kitchen is white. This combination and the predominance of white makes the kitchen bright, warm and cozy.

You can see this kitchen model in more detail on this video:

U-shaped kitchen matt white + Canadian oak wood worktop with bar

Pictured below is a white U-shaped kitchen set with a light Canadian oak wood worktop. The kitchen is located in the living room. The combination "White + Gray + Light Wood" are neutral shades that will be appropriate in any modern interior. They create lightness, add air and freshness to the space, as in this solution.

Canadian Oak top is a beautiful and practical finish. In the interior today, natural shades of wood are fashionable.

Watch this kitchen in detail in the video below:

Kitchen White gloss + wood + "Chestnut" wood top

There are many shades of wood. Therefore, you can introduce them into the interior not only in combination with white, but also among themselves, use smooth transitions from light to dark or make bright accents. In the photo below, a corner kitchen set with White Gloss white fronts and Sonoma Oak wood. Countertop in the kitchen - "Chestnut".

In the video below you can see how the design project of this U-shaped kitchen was created:

Matte white kitchen with blue accents and woodgrain countertops

Pictured below is a modern style kitchen with matt white fronts with recessed handles complemented by dark blue fronts and woodgrain countertops. Light wood combined with blue can create a nautical dining room design.

A white kitchen complemented by blue is stylish, modern, original. This option is not common, because the attitude towards it is very wary. This cold and deep color can easily overwhelm other shades.

For more information about this white kitchen, watch the video:

Straight white built-in kitchen without handles with wood

White color combined with wood has recently become a very popular trend and continues to win more and more hearts. In the photo below, a white straight kitchen 4580 mm long with an Elm worktop (embossed wood).

White kitchen with curved wood top

Before we looked at white kitchens with straight tables. In the photo below, the kitchen ends at the exit with the radius of the countertop. In this example, white and wood complement and dilute the gray and metal tones, which are also perceived as natural elements and add sophistication to the rest of the details and elements of the room.

This is how the Elm top looks like up close:

White kitchen top and wood-look bottom

Wood and white make a perfect match. The combination looks fresh and natural, suitable for kitchens in panel houses. The kitchen set in the photo is installed in an apartment with a kitchen area of 10 sq.m. in Khrushchev with a white top and a wood-like tabletop
For a small kitchen with windows facing the sunny side, a cold sky color is a great chance to lower the temperature, and for those who want to lose weight, reduce their appetite. At the same time, the soft blue kitchen set in combination with a dark wood worktop and fittings looks very warm and cozy.

Kitchen with Pecan Walnut wood top:

White modern kitchen with glossy wood look top

In this example, the white and brown wood color of the worktop complements and dilutes the gray and metal tones, which are also perceived as natural elements and add sophistication the rest of the details and elements of the room.

Straight white glossy kitchen 3000 mm with wood-look worktop

You can see such a kitchen (photo below) with white glossy facades and wood-look worktop at our exhibition.

Kitchen worktop "Chestnut":

More about the kitchen:

Small classic white kitchen "Scandi" with wood worktop

Small kitchen set 2300 mm long in Scandinavian style.

Countertop Rebel Oak:

For more information about this white classic kitchen with wood top look at this video:

In this video you will see design ideas for a white kitchen with wood top:

. Then everything will be according to the mind, without errors, on a budget and in a short time.