Carlisle Wide Plank Floors

Choosing a Carlisle floor to go with your cabinets

Earlier here on "Surface," we talked about how we partner with Crown Point Cabinetry, a company in our very own homestate of New Hampshire, in providing reclaimed woods they use to make some of their cabinets.  You can see these antique woods in action in cabinets here.  Talking with the Crown Point gang got us to thinking how cabinets and floors are inter-related, or not.  Here's our design and sales consultant, Lynn Rafuse, on choosing cabinets to go with floors, and vice versa.

Q:  In a major kitchen remodel or new construction, would you decide the floors or the cabinets first?

Lynne: When customers come to us, we always tell them that if it's at all possible, they want to choose their floors first. Of course, with some remodels or small projects, that's just not possible. Or, they may be totally in love with their cabinets, but need new floors. But when possible, it's best to go "floors first" because the floors are the largest "backdrop" in the space and the one most likely to remain longer than any other. It's one of the biggest surfaces in your home. Almost everything else is more "changeable."

Q: So, after that's decided, what are the other considerations when matching cabinets to floors and floors to cabinets?

Lynn: Of course, it's the style of their home. Is it a timberframe, an 1800s farmhouse in New England or a modern high rise in Chicago . This will somewhat narrow down the flooring choices (though these days, almost "anything goes" in décor; see below). Then there are considerations

Posted on March 16, 2009 at 01:33 PM in Green Building • Home Decor • (0) Comments

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