Picking out a new flooring that updates your house, creates a space you love AND that pairs well with golden honey oak can be pretty overwhelming - I hear it often. You are not alone!

This post is full of tips and practical advice to help you choose a new flooring to coordinate with the honey oak in your house. I’ve boiled all my best floor-choosing advice down to 3 simple, example-filled infographics meant to teach and inspire you.

‘What’s the best flooring to go with honey oak’ is likely one of the most common questions I’m asked when it comes to updating homes with oak, but one I haven’t tackled yet. I’m hoping that these graphics simplify the process and help you to strategically consider all of the main areas to look at when choosing a floor that compliments the honey oak in your home.

It’s always hard to boil down what can be a complex decision into a simple work flow, but I hope this post will at least help you get you started with some confidence.

These 3 infographics will help guide you along and teach you some of the process I use when helping my clients choose new flooring, especially when it comes to pairing it with existing oak.

1. New Flooring & Honey Oak:

   11 tips to help you decide
   

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Tile & Honey Oak:

15 neutral tiles that work

A few things to notice in these tile examples:

• the tiles are all fairly simple in design or pattern (nothing with multiple colors or small mosaics)

• each one is neutral in color

• lots of them have some subtle golden veining to tie in the oak

• I kept the counter and backsplash tile really neutral in these examples, just to give a nice clean slate to showcase the differences in each floor tile, but this type of simplicity does work well with oak cabinetry in real homes :)

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Vinyl Plank & Honey Oak:

10 examples that pair well with oak

In all of these wood-look examples, take a close look for a few details:

• each example is either much lighter or much darker than the honey oak

• none of them are the same golden color as oak

• despite having a brand new main color (gray, dark brown, bleached brown), each of them has a touch of golden honey oak color running through the grain

• each of the samples has graining that is very different from the graining in oak (either much more (tends to be a rustic look) or much less (tends to be a softer or more contemporary look).

You can download these 3 infographics all together in a single PDF in the resource library!

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