Has anyone regretted getting a white kitchen floor? Has anyone regretted anything they chose for their kitchen actually?

[Laiste]

Basically i can't chose what i want in my kitchen and it's driving me insane!

I think i've chosen a quartz worktop (calacatta with a thin additional vein of copper in it) and i think i've chosen a magnet cabinet style (tatton) but for life of me i don't know what colour to chose for the floor and to be honest can't chose the colour of the cabinets either!

If i go with a white floor to echo the quartz will i regret it? At least white/white means the cabinet colour will be easier to chose? No?

Heeeeeelp

@Laiste, remind me where your door samples are from?

@EversoDelighted God that sounds lovely! Navy range cooker! ooooh. Love to see some pics :)

Thanks Horsemad :)

Now - the sample pics:
One is the cashmere against a dove grey door. That pic looks to me on here very much as they do in real life.

One is the much awaited Cobham Blue against a door in Carbon. This one sort of looks like real life - my phone has yellowed the carbon a little bit and taken the green tone out of the blue.

Lastly the Cobham Blue with a start tile. The star tile is an accurate pic - but ... the Cobham Blue in real life is really greeny My phone is making it look more navy than it really is. That's really thrown me.

Your pic, EversoDelighted shows the sort of navy i wanted.

Off to carry the samples into the kitchen space to see what i think.

@Horsemad DIY Kitchens.

@ArchbishopOfBanterbury - slate grey for the floor? Only trouble is i can't find a nice realistic grey stone tile within our budget. But thank you Your Grace

I think i'm on my last allowed image for today - but here is the door against a (properly) navy tea towel

Am i just being daft?

I like that door. Think a warm wood (oak?) floor would set it off nicely.

Thank you. I think i am being daft.

I guess once all the pale quartz is in there and the oaky floor, as you say, it would be ok. The blue in the star tiles (which is a more obvious blue) are not going to touch against any of the cupboards. They would be on a white wall above the white quartz. The Green Cobham blue cupboards beneath the quartz obvs.

We’ve just done our kitchen and went for navy cabinets, white marbled looking quartz and we just went for a herringbone vinyl throughout the kitchen diner and hallway, I work in farming conservation, we have a dog and chickens and our floors getting ditched daily and I’ve had lots of types of flooring from tiles to wood over the years and to be fair none have proven to be that great! I really didn’t want vinyl as I have heard horror stories but we’ve spent thousands on flooring in the past that I refused again as it all eventually stains and get it ruined and so far this vinyl has been great!

It will look great!

Thank you @Horsemad I'm such a laid back person IRL, you wouldn't think so reading this. This kitchen will be the death of me!

@Dogmum40 Thank you. Can you send a link? (or a pic) We are thinking of switching from oak plank in dining room (and everywhere else) to oak herringbone in the kitchen. Big archway no wall. DH wants a change in floor pattern to show one room has turned into another. It's the only thing he's expressed an opinion on so i'm going with it

Once this kitchen is in and finished you are ALL invited round to have a cup of tea in it, by the way.

DH will have to serve as i will be locked up somewhere in a straight jacket dribbling and raving about ''true navy''

Here it is! Excuse the mess 🤣

Ooh @Dogmum40 that floor looks good! And where are your cabinets from if you don't mind me asking?

Also - Is it clicky vinyl or sheet vinyl? (DH looking over my shoulder at this one) (he quite fancies the idea of easy to lay sheet vinyl)

Found this thinking it was sheet but it comes in packs and says 'glue down system' so not sheet. Looks lovely!

flooring.uk.com/signature-select-parquet-herringbone-luxury-vinyl-flooring-farmhouse-oak-ssp-012#

More than twice the price of my cheap pale tiles - but much warmer on the feet ...

Can I suggest: you near more counter space to the left of the sink.
I like the idea of blue cabinets.

@Laiste

Found this thinking it was sheet but it comes in packs and says 'glue down system' so not sheet. Looks lovely!

flooring.uk.com/signature-select-parquet-herringbone-luxury-vinyl-flooring-farmhouse-oak-ssp-012#

More than twice the price of my cheap pale tiles - but much warmer on the feet ...

The kitchen and worktops are from Howdens and the flooring is from a local flooring/carpet shop, it was on a roll and they just glue it down!

The reason we chose it rather than wood, click flooring or tiles again is it there are no join lines in between the flooring whether that be grout or individual sections, I really do destroy flooring because of my job and our animals and this is half the price (hubby was happy as I was contemplating real parquet flooring 🤣) it’s not a branded name flooring either, it’s just a mid range thickish vinyl flooring, it doesn’t need screed like amtico / karndean it really did get glued down, the fitters were really quick with it, I also think that if I destroy it like all my other floorings I won’t be as gutted as when I damaged the others as it’s not cost thousands but it’s actually hard wearing and I’m so glad we went for it now, this flooring really has worked for us and helped us as it’s so easy to maintain

Should add if you choose Howdens you will have to get a fitter or builder to buy it and fit it for you as it’s trade only but Howdens themselves fitted the quartz worktops

Thank you for that info. @Dogmum40. I know exactly what you mean about worrying about gaps - even with a 'waterproof' underlay where does the water go if you spill it and it gets down between the clicky bits?! (I fret about this in the living room. little DD loves a bowl of water to mess with - cue me laying down hundreds of towels).

I think trying to plan a house renovation during various lockdowns with lots of shops and showrooms shut means i've got very good at searching and researching online, but forgotten what it's like to go into town and see something with your own eyes, find it's perfectly ok, and at a good price and just buy it!

Just fiddling with colours

@Laiste

Thank you for that info. *@Dogmum40*. I know exactly what you mean about worrying about gaps - even with a 'waterproof' underlay where does the water go if you spill it and it gets down between the clicky bits?! (I fret about this in the living room. little DD loves a bowl of water to mess with - cue me laying down hundreds of towels).

I think trying to plan a house renovation during various lockdowns with lots of shops and showrooms shut means i've got very good at searching and researching online, but forgotten what it's like to go into town and see something with your own eyes, find it's perfectly ok, and at a good price and just buy it!

Ours was done during lockdown so I feel your pain 🤣 the blue does look fantastic with the worktops and flooring but as someone said it’s very “on trend” I’m not very trendy but blue is my favourite colour so I don’t intend to change it and didn’t have it to impress anyone so just play around with colours and styles and pick what you like and not what’s in fashion, the handless craze would of drive me crackers due to the finger prints, my house is messy enough as it is 🤣

I agree with what Dogmum said - choose what you love and sod 'fashion'! 🙂

I wouldn't choose handless either, personally. Unless i had an uber modern flat or something.

Well, I've made a decision.

It's .......... Cashmere!

The death knell for the navy kitchen sounded the minute i got the sample door out of it's box. You know when you finally see something and your heart sinks a little bit because you know it's not right but you carry on going 'oh! It's ... lovely ... sort of ...' and it's just a matter of time before you admit it's not right? Well - that :(

I'm seeing too much green in it!. I shall spend the next 10 years walking into the kitchen thinking ''it is bloody green'' if i have it. And the lovely star tiles don't go with greeny blue so i wouldn't be able to use those anyway ...

DH keeps saying it's BLUE but he admits himself he can't see colour too well. The older DDs are highly amused (3 of my 4 DDs are early 20s) just because the whole 'mum and her kitchen' thing is now a running joke, but yesterday 2 of them admitted it was greenish blue and 2 of them said to be honest they've preferred the cashmere with rose gold/calacatta/oak floor idea all along.

So there

Now i'm on the hunt for a lovely tile which might pull together the warm tones of cashmere and rose gold/bronze and white. And oak.

Here's all the samples for the last time if it's any help to anyone in the future. From left to right: Cobham Blue, Cashmere, Carbon, Dove Grey.

Now I'm watching even more keenly because I really like cashmere and was leaning towards that for our kitchen, even before I started looking. 🙂

I've attached a pic I found online and I'm thinking of copying it, although I LOVE the Caldeira worktop but not sure it'd go? 🤔 It may do, if the cashmere I choose is a paler, stone shade I think.
That's the problem - cashmere can look so different from different suppliers!

I need to get some samples...

I think the cashmere is lovely! Can I ask what the also lovely oak floor you have next to your samples is?