3 Kitchen Cabinet Ideas to Make Your Oak Flooring Shine

Best Cabinet Colors and Styles for Oak Floors

When deciding on color cabinets that will go with your oak floors, it helps to have something tangible to see the colors, textures, and styles together. 

Gather wooden samples (not just swatches) from your home improvement store if this is a DIY project, or request gallery samples of past work from a professional painter or refinisher.

Natural Oak Floors & Cream Cabinets

White or cream kitchen cabinets combined with natural lighting and light oak flooring create a bright, open kitchen that appears larger than it may be in reality. 

If you want to keep your countertop rather than replace it, white or cream paint colors adapt well to many countertop colors and polished stone materials.

However, if the color you choose for your kitchen cabinets and oak floors don’t have enough contrast, they will wash each other out. 

Here’s a guide to help you evaluate light paint color and flooring combinations:

• Painting an area a darker color tends to focus attention on that area. This means that if the paint color for your kitchen cabinets is a darker color than your oak flooring, they will steal attention from the flooring.
  
  
• If you want to keep your kitchen bright and open, you should paint your kitchen cabinets a lighter color than your oak floors.
  
  
• If you want to make your kitchen seem smaller and more focused, paint your kitchen cabinets a few shades darker than your oak floors.
  

Yellow (or Honey) Oak Floors & Blue-Green-Grey Blends

Honey oak flooring has orange-yellow tones that naturally complement blue-green-grey blended colors. Blends with blue as the dominant color will work well with a deeper brown honey oak. 

A dominant green (pale or sage) contrasts beautifully with red, yellow, or orange tones in oak flooring since red and green are complementary colors on the color wheel. 

While the overall result will depend on the blend of the blue-green-grey paint you choose, blue is a classic kitchen cabinet color. Generally, you can’t go wrong with this blend.

Red Oak Floors with Light Grey Cabinets

Far from simply a safe paint color, light grey blends help red oak floors shine by harmonizing with them.

If you don’t want a matte or silvery grey, this color also blends well with other cool colors like blue or violet to create unique combinations.

Discover the Best Cabinet Colors for Your Kitchen

Since kitchen cabinets and oak floors take up a lot of space in your kitchen, every paint color choice can feel like a “high stakes” pricing decision.

Our professionals at Oceanside Painting & Refinishing specialize in a process called refinishing, which helps you reduce the cost of your kitchen remodel by chemically stripping the old color from your kitchen cabinets and then re-painting them with a new color of your choice. 

If you’re looking for ideas or inspiration, we host a gallery of our completed work that you can browse on our website and Instagram page. 

To speak with an expert who can help you discover the best paint colors to go with your oak floors, call us at 732-818-0092 or send us an email at phil.oceanside@gmail.com.