Kitchen - wood worktop and wood floor. Too much?

[Iggly]

That's it really. I'm going insane planning the new kitchen and we've decided we're going for wooden worktops. However can't decide on floor. Originally we thought tiles but now coming around to the idea of engineered wooden floor.

Cabinets are white gloss, worktops are oak, tiles are white and walls will be a sort of green.

WWYD?

www.howdens.com/product-range/kitchen-collection/kitchen-families/gloss-integrated-handle/gloss-cream-integrated-handle/

is what it may look like. I have been designing my kitchen too and have been having nightmares trying to work out what it will/how I want it to look and Google images have helped enormously (don't want to teach Grandmother to suck eggs, but do a normal google search eg "White gloss kitchen oak floor worktop" and then when you get the results click on the "image" button rather than the "web button" immediately under the "Google" sign. This will show you a variety of images - some with wood floor some not.

HTH

Thanks. I've been googling images but still undecided. In my head it might end up being too much wood but I don't like floor tiles much.
All confusing. Went to ikea today hell but still no clearer!

My bro and sil have wood floor and worktop, it looks fab. Tis a huge room though

We have wood floor/wood worktop (oak), I love it, think it looks fab. Also have white units, undecided on wall colour yet (currently stopgap cream but could be anything really)

I have not gone for wood for practical reasons (am slattern and cannot be arsed to oil/maintain wood worktops). Am doing white cupboards, granite worktops and bamboo floor. Though another consideration not to go for wood worktops for me is that we are doing a big open plan space and dining room table/dresser is oak - so wood worktops "wood" (sorry) definitely have been too much

We've got wooden worktops and floor (oak). I love it

we were planning that, ended up with black slate laminate from B+Q and oak worktops (with IKEA lidingo units and varde handles). I think it looks lovely :) wooden floor plus wooden worktop seemed too much for us.

If you've got LOTS of floor and surface it could be too much.

I've had an engineered oak floor, oak surfaces and white cupboards before - it looked lovely but it was a TINY kitchen.

Thanks everyone! Kitchen isn't huge, more medium sized. There's a lot of floor on show as can't fit in a table well we could but DH says no

Ive been looking at wood in a pale colour but worried it might date quickly. Maybe we'll reconsider tiles?! Kitchen works start next month so running out of time

We are currently thinking about a similar look.

We have wooden floors (pine) and currently have wooden (birch) units and dark laminate worktops. We are thinking of changing to wooden worktops with white cupboards to lighten up the room and make it more in keeping with the rest of the house.

Our main worry is real wooden block worktops or laminate? All kitchen fitters seem to say we'll regret the day we put in real wooden worktops as they are high maintenance.

We have oak wooden work tops and wooden floor, looks great.

If you cook a great deal, it's a definite no to wooden worktops regardless of how they look. They will go black around the sink area - just look at the sides/bottom of your wooden chopping board if you have one. Just being practical....

We have light wood laminate work tops and light wood karndean floor with white gloss. Looks freaking awesome.

I cook most meals... Bottom of wooden chopping board is fine but it's on little legs

I've ummed and ahhed about wood - we have a wooden butchers block style dining table which needs regular oiling. It takes a battering (water spills etc) and is holding up ok. I am worried about the sink area as we're pretty bad at that and my friend has wooden worktops and the back of her sink area is completely rotten away.

But I don't like laminate, granite is too expensive as is composite... So we're going for wood and will keep it maintained (hopefully).

Have ordered some engineered floor samples now so I think wood floor and worktops it is!

we have managed to keep our worktop un-blackened in a year of heavy use - just takes a bit of care to mop up spills immediately and oil occasionally.

our kitchen is green btw - have pic on profile. just noticed you said you're thinking green for colour scheme :)

Just a nosy - love the green, DS's room is that colour! Was thinking slighter green - what shade is that?

Im not keen on a wooden floor and worktop tbh, we've got a dark grey tiled floor and we are goin to have a warm wood worktop, when my dh decides to start on the kitchen....

In our old kitchen - installed by the person before us - we had not only a wooden worktop and floor but also cabinets and, wierdly, it worked. No one ever said, ooh, too much wood. So I think you'll be fine, as long as they're different shades/kinds of wood.

We also had quite strong coloured walls (just a bit lighter than that green!, which helped, and some pattern on the window blind, all of which broke it up a bit.

I have wood worktops and floors (both oak). The walls and units are off whites and the kitchen looks warm and bright. Everyone who has seen it says it looks great (although I guess no one is really going to tell me my house looks awful)!

we have bamboo floor, white units, bamboo worktops and iridescent mosaic tile walls - we love it even after 4 years

think it was olive press by crown or a dulux green kitchen paint iggly

Sounds lovely to me. Pretty much what I'm planning.

I thought I was fairly decided on wooden floor, cream, shaker doors and wooden effect worktops (daren't risk upkeep with real wood :() but recently saw some lovely shaker units painted a light sage green which really appealed to me, not sure what colour(s) I would do walls with green cupboards though - any suggestions?

(Sorry for hijack)

Can you keep the walls cream? Or a white?

I have wooden worktop (oak, butchers block style) and bamboo floor (natural strand woven) and it works a treat. I Danish oiled the worktop like a maniac regularly when it was installed, and two years later it's still great. yes, you have to mop up spills but it's worth it.

No, Its not too much at all, it will make it have more style. It seems like your enjoying going down this wooden theme for your kitchen. What else is wooded, will you be having a wooden dining table? If you do, I would recommend Macy's. That's where I got my wooden table, and it matched the theme for my kitchen, wooden surface, and laminated floors, with a nice bright paint for the walls. Very nice kitchen.