floor for my green walled and white cabinet kitchen?

[r]

I have got white cabinets for my kitchen and green walls + dark grey worktops. I am not sure what colour or type of floor will go with it. Any ideas !!!

[MasterGardner198]

Depends on what you want and are willing to pay for. Vinyl tile is easy to install and if you buy a pattern of different colors - green, gray, white, it will show very little dirt - its also cheaper than most other kinds of flooring. Gray slate would be my next choice - it is much more expensive, but great looking.

[Deb289]

For a kitchen, you want something durable but it does depend on how much you want to spend. Vinyl is cheaper than say slate or ceramic so it's up to you. My kitchen is bright red with white wainscoting on the bottom half of the walls. I also have gray countertops. I was going for a retro look but decided against a black white or combo black/white floor when I could not find something sturdy in my price range.

I lucked up on some great laminate wood flooring, a dark coffee brown color and was quite pleased with the result. It made the kitchen feel 'warmer'. You might consider this too because it holds up well and will still look good if you paint the kitch a different color later.

[c_kayak_fun343]

If you can afford it, grey (same grey value as your counters but much lighter tone) 12" porcelain stone or slate-look tiles (real slate is too slippery for a kitchen). I bit the bullet and had that installed in my new kitchen last winter and couldn't be happier. If you are on a budget, the TrafficMaster commercial grade floor tile looks very real and holds up beautifully for a third of the price and you can install it yourself.

I would strongly caution against laminate in a kitchen (no doubt people will object to my opinion) unless you are extremely tidy, don't have kids or pets and never prepare food in there. My brother and several other people I know have put laminate in kitchens and regretted it severely. Since these floor "float" they do not provide a strong watertight seal around the edges or where the pieces click together. The substrate is moisture permeable and eventually absorbs spills and swells up, heaving and/or delaminating. Also, it tends to show dents from having sharp or heavy objects dropped on it (which happens all the time in most kitchens I know).

Frankly, most laminate floors look to me more like contact paper than real wood. I know many people love their pergo floors but, personally, after seeing all the problems with them, I would never use them anywhere but as a budget last-resort in a bedroom above grade that was going to have a large area rug covering all but the edges. Funny how flooring trends go in cycles -- ten years ago if you watched the HGTV home buyer shows all the house hunters would rave "ooh! Pergo floors! What a plus!". Today it's more like "Eew, laminate -- we'll have to rip that out."

[nedreeverizonnet024]

grey with an occasional green if your doing tile.good luck.

[Chris268454]

I think a dark wood floor will look very modern and clean cut:
http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/green-white-kitchen-de-8718691.jpg
http://decojournal.com/img/white-kitchen-wooden-flooring-neil-lerner.jpg

It's also easy to maintain and will provide a great contrast to your light cabinets. Good luck on your kitchen design!