Kitchen worktops matching floor?

[YellowEllis]

We have oak doors and we were going to pick oak worktops and floors in our kitchen. DH didn't like the oak sample as it was in blocks and he wanted it to look like one big slab of wood, we ended up agreeing on this one. Now I'm worried it won't go with the oak doors or floors! Do I try and convince him to change?

This was what I wanted.

yours would have looked better IMo but the key is that the wood is the same tone

We can still change I just need to convince DH!

I prefer your DH's choice. Looks classier.

@PixelatedLunchbox

I prefer your DH's choice. Looks classier.

Yes that's what he's saying. But will it go with oak doors and floors? I want it all to tie in together, also the inside of our kitchen cupboards is oak.

I prefer your original choice as I think the colour looks a bit warmer but you’d have to measure a sample up against your existing features to check the tone matches

Are you having the same worktop, doors and floor?

Like a sauna? I just can't picture this!

But for what it's worth your choice is much better, I don't like the first one. Looks more manufactured

@SingingWaffleDoggy

I prefer your original choice as I think the colour looks a bit warmer but you’d have to measure a sample up against your existing features to check the tone matches

Annoyingly we can't, the oak doors we never got a sample for as they come as standard. We haven't picked our flooring yet but I know I want a warm oak to match the doors. The kitchen has to be ordered this week so I can't compare

@myhobbyisouting

Are you having the same worktop, doors and floor?

Like a sauna? I just can't picture this!

But for what it's worth your choice is much better, I don't like the first one. Looks more manufactured

Not my pic, just an example of oak worktops and oak floor. Our cupboard doors aren't oak, our internal doors throughout the house are. The kitchen cupboards are oak internal only.

Which ones look more manufactured sorry? The oak or the one we've chosen?

You can have too much of a good thing, and personally I feel the entire floor matching the worktops might be going in that direction.
However, I have plinths that match the worktop, and a small trim above the (extra tall) cupboards to cover the 1 inch gap to the ceiling.
I have a kind of misty grey/beigey lvt floor but I admit it's a bugger to clean. In my old house I had that type of black flooring and it was very practical.

Please don't! It's way too much oak in one room. Match the doors and worktop then pick another covering for the floor.
If you're set on oak everything then consider full stave worktop as a compromise.

This is our cupboards and worktops. Then we have 2 oak internal doors from the kitchen and we want oak floor. It's not that much? It's what the show home had and looked lovely. We haven't got oak worktops at the moment as they are slightly darker.

I prefer your husbands choice

Do you mean oak doors in the room or oak cabinet doors? If it's the cabinets, it's too much wood IMHO and I would go with a solid colour (or granite).

If your cupboards are coloured, then either of the countertops should go fine with oak floors - and you can mix and match intensity. I've got light wood worktops and medium oak floors and other darker wood elements and it looks fine (I think) so not necessarily a requirement to match woods.

@KaleKitchen

Do you mean oak doors in the room or oak cabinet doors? If it's the cabinets, it's too much wood IMHO and I would go with a solid colour (or granite).

If your cupboards are coloured, then either of the countertops should go fine with oak floors - and you can mix and match intensity. I've got light wood worktops and medium oak floors and other darker wood elements and it looks fine (I think) so not necessarily a requirement to match woods.

Yes the doors from the kitchen through to both the hallway and utility are solid oak. The cupboard doors are a stone colour I've posted below. I want a nice warm oak flooring throughout the whole kitchen/diner. I'm wondering if I leave the worktops as is or change for the warmer oak to co-ordinate with the floor

It’s all a bit matchy matchy. I would have a stone wink top. Get something easier to look after and then you won’t have the problem of matching anything!

Aaah!!! Work top!

I don't necessarily agree, I'm seeing a lot of wood worktops, flooring and furniture and done well I think it looks lovely. I don't want tiles in the kitchen/diner and I don't want any grey anywhere in the house.

If we keep the worktops we've chosen, what shade of wooden flooring would work if not oak? I do preferably want warm tones.

@YellowEllis I understand now. I thought you meant cabinet doors too

I think the last picture you've posted looks very old fashioned and has already dated (so that's a bonus depending on how you look at it).

I also refuse to have grey in my home and have had a solid oak worktop before. I think your husbands choice just looks like a photograph printed onto laminate. Very fake.

I prefer your choice. Is there a breakfast bar? If so how about a warm coloured granite or quartz for the majority of the surfaces and then a thicker oak block for the breakfast bar?

This type of thing

It is laminate worktop, we can't afford the real things just yet. The photo I just posted is more the look we're going for, I'm not fussed if it's fashionable or not it's nice and bright and warm and welcoming which is what we want. I don't want anything as dark as the picture you've posted really

If all the oaks don't match really well then I don't think it will look good. Better to have a completely different surface for at least one of them.

I think it's all look fine with the floor and accompanied by the photos you posted.

We're doing something similar to what @myhobbyisouting suggested as like an overhang to match the floor.

I think yours is nicer and I prefer oak block effects think they look less cheap looking

Too much oak isn’t great because it won’t match. Laminate just worse. Why not have a more expensive laminate? One that’s not oak or a lookalike wood?

If you want to change a work too in future, be aware that ripping it out could well cause issues for your kitchen cupboards and wall finishes. Best to have the best finish now.