Hardwood Kitchen Floors

Considered by many to be the ultimate floor choice, hardwood never goes out of style. This classic floor lends natural beauty and warmth to your kitchen; every board brings rich details achieved with nature and craftsmanship. It's not the most comfortable floor to stand on for long periods of time, so dedicated cooks might want to put down mats or area rugs. But hardwood stands up to spills and stains. Hardwood is often installed throughout the house for a seamless look. Though hardwood lasts for years, you can get fresh looks down the road by refinishing, staining, and even painting the kitchen floors.

This fun, transitional kitchen is filled with contemporary elements and rustic details. Two modern pendant lights are accented with brass that draw the eye to the marble-topped kitchen island with built-in range. The cabinets below are outfitted with matching brass hardware and a soft white color palette. The brass works to compliment the nearby brick accent wall and rich hardwood flooring in the space.

Hand-scraped hickory hardwood adds rich character to the kitchen. Though hardwood is one of the more expensive floor options, it adds value to a home. Shown: Handscraped Hickory, Mocha. Photo courtesy of EcoTimber

Designed by Zinc Interior Concepts, this stylish kitchen features a stenciled hardwood floor, offering a dose of personality. An orange stove unit and art deco-themed frames enhances the unique look.

This transitional kitchen has two skylights for added natural light to help balance the dark wood floors and the oversize island and black IKEA cabinets. Two globe pendant lights provide illumination for the space.

This traditional all-white kitchen with light hardwood flooring,features a granite-topped kitchen island, gorgeous pendant lighting, and spectacular window allowing for natural light to flood the space.

This dramatic wood kitchen floor is made from Tanzanian wenge hardwoods. At first glance, the floors appear to be dark gray. However, a stripe effect can be seen, featuring several shades of gray and gray-brown.

This modern tiny home uses wall to wall windows to make the space feel large and bright. Light colored maple wood makes up the floors, ceilings and cabinets and reflects the natural light of the outdoors, giving the space an open feeling.

The light-flooded living areas of this Boca Raton, Florida home flow in a versatile open layout, with white-washed pine wood cathedral ceilings adding an airy feel to the warm neutral chromatics, complemented by hand scraped “Tobacco Road” teak floors.

This custom kitchen contains white Shaker cabinets and leaded-glass panel doors to achieve a warm but modern look. The pine floors are an unexpected contrast to the stainless steel range hood and a nice balance to the white subway tile backsplash.

This open plan kitchen features gorgeous exotic teak wood cabinets and Brazilian cherry hardwood floors paired with stainless steel appliances. Tall, exposed beam ceilings create a spacious look.

This hardwood floor has a ash color that gives the space a rich brown hue.

Inspired by the classic gourmet styling of the prestigious French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley, California, this kitchen features classic traditional elements such as the patterned tin ceiling, crown moldings and island column details. The hardwood floors and green granite countertops provide contrast against the beautiful white cabinetry.

Accented with beautiful wide plank hardwood floors, this kitchen features a soft grey and white color palette and mellow touches of color and pattern in the barstools soften the room.

In this friendly kitchen, weathered hardwood floors and rustic barstools are a fun pairing with the polished feel of the gray subway tiles and white cabinetry.

This vast kitchen has classically elegant design details like a delicate chandelier, hardwood floors and ornate carvings around the range hood. For entertaining ease, there are also double ovens, three dishwashers and a Viking stovetop.

The redesigned galley kitchen is a bright and beautiful update with white shiplap walls, light maple flooring and bright white counters. Shaker-style cabinetry in a muted gray is embellished with on-trend satin gold drawer pulls.

This kitchen feels like a glamorous version of a ship's kitchen, with streamlined, silvery design elements and porthole windows. Mahogany floors are a welcome touch of warmth.

This eat-in kitchen's dark brown hardwood floors are a grounding contrast to the fresh, white cabinets and walls.

The kitchen contrasts hickory wood floors and exposed wood beams with airy details like white walls, countertops and a backsplash. Dome-shaped pendants and angular barstools with round seats are a fun mix of shapes in the open concept space.

The 2011 HGTV Dream Home's kitchen perfectly combines maple floors with charcoal-finished cabinets, quartz countertops, and high end appliances to create a sleek, modern chef's kitchen. A breakfast bar for less formal meals and frosted glass bring function to this designer space.

Fumed oak floors in a striking chevron pattern steal the show in this transitional kitchen. Lime-washed oak cabinets with a bluish black stain provide contrast against the light floors for a visually appealing design.

This contemporary kitchen features white frameless cabinets and quartz countertops. The dark wide-plank wood flooring provides crisp contrast against the simple white cabinets.

A revolution in the world of hardwood, this unique flooring comes in squares and rectangles as well as planks. The black-and-white checkerboard design brings this kitchen to life. Photo courtesy of Mannington Mills, Inc.