Beech kitchen, dark worksurface – what colour flooring?

Kitchen units are beech, work surface is some sort of dark black speckled stuff.

What colour should the floor be? Beech or will that be beech overkill.

Also what colour would you tile the walls?

Floor is more important though.

Ours is close, light oak. Dark quartz worktop ( better than granite) with dark floor tiles with a very subtle metallic flake in them

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Floor us still partly wet in the pics

Dark to contrast the units would be my call, beach on the floor as well would be a bit OTT. Wall tiles could be pretty much any colour you wanted with that colour scheme.

Floor – Slate
Wall – Hmmm… cream maybe

Dark floor, whatever you do – unless you want to have to mop it every day for the rest of your life.

Other direction

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We went for stronger colours. The main Walls are a retro yellowy-green. One person said we were ‘brave’ to use those colours, but we specifically wanted to avoid neutral colours as that’s what everyone has. :). We think it’s come out better than we ever could have hoped. I installed the units and appliances myself. It’s not hard. Worktop is a pro job, as is the tiling

What is the floor made from?

Oh, as to can see, no tiles in the whole room. 100mm upstands to match the worktop, plus extension including the windowledge.
Job has a custom sized SS splashback, £45 ish off the Internet somewhere.

Floor is porcelain tiles that look like a modern slate. Smooth finish though ad we needed to stand a table and chairs on it and don’t want them rocking. £600 for the tiles alone.

As a rule of thumb, keep planes the same. Floor and tops especially. Units and tops in wood or units and floor looks ott. The other issue would be the ‘nearly not quite’ mismatch issues of different woods

My walls are shocking so the tiling will cover the worst of it up

Rubber floor tiles work really well in a kitchen – I went for a nice bold “Pacific Blue” and am well pleased with the result (easy to clean, really hard wearing, warm underfoot). Not easy to fit though – I would advise against DIY as the waterproof epoxy adhesive used to stick them down means you only get one chance to get it right, and mistakes will be expensive (and very difficult to put right).

I had to knock a stud wall out of that room, so it was all plastered and new electrics installed at the same time.
Hence perfect Walls and not needing tiles. 🙂

Double post

We have a black granite worktop with very dark grey porcelain floor tiles. Looks great against walnut cabinets.