Should I Use White Oak Flooring With Oak Cabinets?
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Keep the Cabinets and Change Them to Suit
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Add interest to a white oak room by adding decor items and backsplashes Oak is a beautiful wood that is used to make many household objects. This high value wood is worth keeping. If you also want oak flooring, you can alter your cabinets to suit the floors. Robin Daly from Daly's Paint and Decorating recommends painting oak cabinets to add visual interest or changing the doors to give oak cabinets a modern look.
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Similar Colors Can Be Monotonous
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Wood grain matters to the eye If you choose flooring that looks very similar to your cabinets, you may not get the clean look that you want. Instead, you might get a monotone look that is sterile and unappealing. If your cabinets are floor to ceiling, then you will have one color in most of your room. Architect Bill Hirsch recommends having two different grains and two different colors in the flooring and the cabinetry to add visual interest.
Bottom Line
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A bright chair can add life to a white room You can change your old cabinets to work with the floor that you want and add decor items to add interest to the room. However, it is easier to simply get a floor that works with your cabinets so that you do not create a monotone look in the room.
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- Photo Credit wood texture image by Denis Tabler from Fotolia.com tiles image by charles taylor from Fotolia.com Fragment of board 3 image by amlet from Fotolia.com red leather chair image by Andrejs Pidjass from Fotolia.com
