Should I Choose Limestone for my Kitchen Floor?
If it’s subtle texture, durability and timeless style you’re after, look no further than limestone
One of the most popular natural stones, limestone is an enduring classic, but would it suit the style of your space? Take a look at these beautiful kitchens with limestone floors to help you decide.
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Add some contrast
If you’re going for a dark shade on your kitchen units, try adding a bold contrast at ground level.
These charcoal cabinets sit above a pale limestone floor. The light colour of the flags helps to brighten up the dark cabinets, and the texture of the stone adds interest against the flat matt units.
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If you’re going for a dark shade on your kitchen units, try adding a bold contrast at ground level.
These charcoal cabinets sit above a pale limestone floor. The light colour of the flags helps to brighten up the dark cabinets, and the texture of the stone adds interest against the flat matt units.
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Tone in
For a more subtle look, blend your cabinets with your flooring by choosing a pale colour for the units.
Here, the pale cream flagstones are complemented by off-white cabinets. The light colour palette helps to give this kitchen a fresh, airy feel.
To give definition to the bright surfaces, the designers have added a black worktop and some grey accessories.
For a more subtle look, blend your cabinets with your flooring by choosing a pale colour for the units.
Here, the pale cream flagstones are complemented by off-white cabinets. The light colour palette helps to give this kitchen a fresh, airy feel.
To give definition to the bright surfaces, the designers have added a black worktop and some grey accessories.
Highlight imperfections
Natural materials tend to look better with age, and that’s certainly true of limestone. Celebrate this by choosing flags with rough edges, as the designers have done here.
The white grouting between the slabs shows off the textured edges of each flagstone.
Natural materials tend to look better with age, and that’s certainly true of limestone. Celebrate this by choosing flags with rough edges, as the designers have done here.
The white grouting between the slabs shows off the textured edges of each flagstone.
Give it a twist
Limestone might be a traditional material, but there are ways to bring it up to date.
Take this seemingly classic Shaker kitchen, for example – the style is trad, but the colours aren’t. A bright blue island and pale lilac cupboard give a subtle hint that this cookspace is not as old as the natural stone floor might suggest.
Limestone might be a traditional material, but there are ways to bring it up to date.
Take this seemingly classic Shaker kitchen, for example – the style is trad, but the colours aren’t. A bright blue island and pale lilac cupboard give a subtle hint that this cookspace is not as old as the natural stone floor might suggest.
Match with modern
In fact, limestone doesn’t have to be teamed with a traditional-style kitchen at all. Its neutral pattern and shade work well with most looks, including ultra-modern, as this kitchen illustrates.
Gloss units and Perspex chairs look extra sleek next to the rougher texture of the stone floor.
In fact, limestone doesn’t have to be teamed with a traditional-style kitchen at all. Its neutral pattern and shade work well with most looks, including ultra-modern, as this kitchen illustrates.
Gloss units and Perspex chairs look extra sleek next to the rougher texture of the stone floor.
Work it in with wood
If you’ve gone for natural wood cabinets, limestone is a great choice for your flooring. The textured pattern on each surface gives a rich, tactile feel to the space, and the wood helps bring out the honey tones in the stone.
Tell us…
Would you consider using limestone on your kitchen floor? Share your thoughts in the Comments section.
If you’ve gone for natural wood cabinets, limestone is a great choice for your flooring. The textured pattern on each surface gives a rich, tactile feel to the space, and the wood helps bring out the honey tones in the stone.
Tell us…
Would you consider using limestone on your kitchen floor? Share your thoughts in the Comments section.
The beauty of natural stone is that it can work with most colour schemes, and the shade of your cabinets will bring out different hues in the flagstones.
Here, for instance, the designers have teamed a beige limestone floor with a greeny-grey kitchen. There’s a hint of grey in the stone, which is highlighted by the units around it.