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Wood flooring and doors help!

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

We’re at the crux of decision points for our 1930s semi extension and renovation project and need some help from this lovely community please regarding the flooring and door selection.

we‘ve picked out a floor which we really like which we think works well with our kitchen design. Its a golden smoked oak engineered LVT (a new type of flooring.) looks like this:

We‘d also picked out some of wooden doors (solid wood face, so engineered wooden doors? the sample is super heavy!). They are oak ones with groves and glazing for some of the doors. Unfortunately when the sample of the door came it was much lighter than the brochure. it’s a natural oak colour. When we put this against the floor it seems like possibly there is too much going on, baring in mind we were planning on going for white skirting and architrave...

what do you all think?

- could natural oak doors work with a darker smoked floor and white skirting

- or should skirting be natural oak too?

- or should we consider white doors? My hubby really Doesn’t like the idea of white doors... me neither if we’re talking about thin plywood ones... but I can see now white and the dark floor working well together.. any way of getting solid looking white doors?

or do we look at staining the oak doors? They’ll come prefinished... i dont know much (anything) about staining tbh!

the wood flooring would be in the hallway, WC, and back room (open kitchen dinner) with carpet in the front rooms.

any thoughts please?

Photos of the kitchen samples on the golden smoked oak floor just in case you’re interested are here (wood bit is the island, metal is a copper profile which doesn’t look very copper in the photos! And the units door is the light mink/camel colour).

ill post a picture of the oak door here when I get the sample back.

thanks!

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Comments (3)

Fafa K
Original Author
3 years ago
Some door pics from a showroom visit today... turns out the sample we had was more of an American white oak which is why it looks so light...

im Still not 100% by the oak doors with our other selections... not even sure now what type of floor would go with oak door?!

going a bit mad

ghaa sorry dont know how to rotate these during upload! got a teething 6m old so forgive me for not re uploading...!

Painted clay colour door

(Square Sample from another manufacturer)
Sonia
3 years ago
Hi Fafa, I would paint the doors in a nice shade to go with the rooms/corridor. I’m not a fan of natural wood doors as they are so light sapping and difficult to decorate around. If budget allows and you don’t have time to paint the doors (bubba!) then get a decorator in to paint them. You will have a huge range of colours to choose from. I LOVE your chosen floor, by the way!
Fafa K thanked Sonia
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