J'adore Home 5: Kitchen Cabinets and Hardwood Floors

We had a flood! A refrigerator flood that mangled the hardwood in our kitchen and dining! The Home Insurance covers only 40% of the main floor but we are adding to the cost to replace the flooring on the entire main floor! Hardwood throughout the main floor sounds like a luxury to me. But todays post is not about hardwood floors! Its about the colours of cabinets to floors. First let's explore the contrast option.

Traditional Kitchen by Solon Interior Designers & Decorators House of L Interior Design

This style has a more casual and lived in look. Beautiful to the eye and when you enter a room like this, you have so much to look at! The floors, cabinets, pulls, countertops and everything else eye candy! Since they matched the chair fabric to the floors to some degree, there is a cohesiveness here despite the contrast.

Traditional Kitchen by Ottawa Cabinets & Cabinetry Laurysen Kitchens Ltd.

or consider this combination! Espresso brown cabinets with dark walnut floors! Your eyes go straight to the floors.. The cabinets are acting as a backdrop for the grain of the hardwood floors. For even more contrast, look at the light and bright counters, this whole kitchen is so dramatic but beautiful! Despite all of that beauty I find myself leaning towards the tone on tone look of cabinets and wood floors. like this one: Sure its a bit more traditional but it feels more cohesive and the eye is drawn towards other elements like that fireplace or the pendants!

Transitional Kitchen by Prescott Home Builders Dorn Homes

And finally there are these three kitchens:

Traditional Kitchen

Here we see that the floors are matched to the wood on the cabinets however some cabinets with the glass doors have a contrasting paint colour. The designer is emphasizing this portion of the kitchen, our eye is drawn to this focal wall! Some beautiful crisp white serving dishes and that beautiful hood fan above the stove are must haves in my dream kitchen!

Traditional Kitchen

This one is dark from floors to cabinets to builtins and paint! but those wall kitchen cabinets are set apart in white. This is another combination of mixing the cohesive and contrast look! Dramatic and feels custom! Not sure if this will work in our space, our fireplace is very country chic not quite as classy as this dark builtin effect!

Traditional Kitchen by Lake Forest Kitchen & Bath Fixtures Preferred Kitchen & Bath

This kitchen actually has the colour scheme of our current kitchen. We have cherry wood cabinets with stainless steel appliances, stone countertops are still a work in progress.. This kitchen mixes the contrast and cohesive look. Uppers and lowers along the wall are matched to the flooring but the contrasting element is the island! This is most definitely my style! It makes the island the focal point for the whole room! Our island is 84 inches by 52 inches, perhaps it needs to be the focal point, it definitely has the size for it! So what to do? Contrasting or cohesive? Which do you prefer? any other suggestions that I should consider before signing on the dotted line...
 Best wishes, Ameera