Solid oak worktops & flooring in large dining kitchen - too much oak?

[CountryKitty]

Hi all some advice please:

The kitchen we have chosen is Burford Grey from Howdens www.howdens.com/product-range/kitchen-collection/kitchen-families/burford/burford-grey/

We have chosen the solid oak worktops and were planning on having oak flooring also. I'm now worried that there will be too much wood as the kitchen diner is quite large. What do you think? What other flooring would work? thanks!

How big is big. We went to smooth cream Howden's units (I forget what they were called), oak floor and Howden's excellent fake oak laminate worktops. I think it looks really good, but our kitchen diner is 6m by 6m.

We were steared away from tiles as people said they would be cold. I can live with looking after a wooden floor, but not the stress of real wooden worktops.

Aha, we've just had Howdens Burford grey kitchen installed. We've also gone for Howdens square edged Oak laminate and I've got some laminate (oak) samples arriving tomorrow hopefully.

We didn't go for tiles, as I didn't want tiles for dining area.

I've seen the oak worktop / flooring combination elsewhere and think it looks fine.

BTW if you're going for under cabinet lighting on the Burford grey, make sure it's fairly discrete. The plinth is very small and our lighting (ours is also kitchen diner) is visible. The electrician installed flurorescent strips, but I've asked him to replaced with spot lights, as I don't like their visibility.

Hi thanks ladies.

I think we will go for the oak flooring throughout. Got Howdens planner coming out tomorrow. Got the builder & joiner booked in for July when on summer hols. It's replacing a 1990's scabby old kitchen so can't wait!!

Personally I think it's too much oak (sorry!)

How about either oak worktop/tiled floor? Or oak floor with some other worktop (granite is lovely)?

No to wooden worktops - porous and not practical for cooking. Being a cooking snob, pro/keen cooks would never consider it. I would say that the same for solid wooden flooring - you don't want to ruin it with spillages of various liquids - I would compromise with engineeered wood/wood laminate/good quality vinyl or indeed tiles.

I have to say I love my granite worktops - and you can put hot dishes on them.

I am having the same dilemma as you. I am having oak worktops and shaker cream painted kitchen. I now have a kitchen diner with the kitchen part quite small (2 x 4 m) and the diner part about 4x4m.

I have thought about doing tiles in the kitchen part as didn't want wood there incase of leaks but also have a back door in diner which is our only door into garden so am worried about the wood wearing out by the door. I am now thinking of getting Karndean but can't decide on whether to go for wood effect or tile effect!!!

My friend has engineered oak floor and worktops all the way through hers and it looks lovely though.

Hi, we recently had our kitchen done and I decided against wooden floors and wooden worktops as I felt it would be too much wood. We also have a big room.

So we have engineered oak floors and a shiny pastel blue worktop with our high gloss white kitchen.