Worktops to match floor?!?

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I have spent ages trawling online looking at engineered oak flooring and oak worktops. Finally ordered some samples from "wood and beyond". The worry I have is, should the oak worktops be similar colour/tone oak to the floor? I have fallen (I think) for the coffee/smoked brushed flooring but worry that it may be too dark against normal oak worktops! We are flooring the whole of downstairs, including new kitchen. Any ideas?

if you get a carpenter in to lay the flooring, and he has any skill, he can make up a matching worktop using the same flooring on a slab of chipboard. Some will appreciate the chance to do something constructive.

I personally think that might be too much oak. Have you considered a different kind of worktop?

Watching with interest as we are thinking of doing something similar. We might go for something different on Island and just oak on the other side of kitchen so just one oak worktop plus table top and floor to break it up a bit

I have oak (karndean) floor which is quite a mooted oak colour and then my real oak worktops are a much warmer stronger colour and it looks lovely have cream cabinets.

Not quite the same but we have (quite dark / coffee coloured) solid bamboo. Our kitchen is an L shaped kitchen, plus an island unit, but there is only one run and a corner of worktop as the other side of the L is made up of floor to ceiling cupboards.

We have used a similar coloured worktop (its called Wenge but the (dark brown) colour is quite close) on the L shape and then have a very light quartz on the island unit.

I think it depends on the look you are going for and how much worktop space you're talking about. If you have a large kitchen with lots of worktop, I think all of it in oak, plus the flooring, might look overpowering. I also think you'd need to be careful with the style of kitchen so that the look isn't taken over by the worktops.

I purposely tried to minimise the number of colours going on as I wanted quite a minimal look.

Thanks for ideas, I am waiting for some smoky coffee coloured oak flooring samples. Thinking if more 'normal' oak coloured oak for the breakfast bar and then possibly black granite either side if the oven. Units are going to be grey /green on the bottom and off white on top. I think now that hopefully I won't have too much oak and best to try NOT to match it?!

I think I would not have an oak work top at all. I have one in my flat and it stains. Granite is way better and a grey fleck one would look great and definitely would go with the floor.

That's one thing I have decided on with lots of research on here! Think that wood work tops verus granite is a tricky one but financially I have to go with wood. The granite we have for the oven area we already have second hand.

What colour are the units? We have karndean dark flooring with warmer tones in it and a similar worktop although not the same, just similar tones. Are units are white gloss - presumably you havent gone for natural wood units or it might look like one big log!

Going for painted units - Lite Greenes Normandy grey

I have bamboo worktops and bamboo floor (pic on my profile)
they came from different companies but were the best 'fit' in terms of textures - and still are 6 years later