Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question and if not point me in the right direction.
We just bought a house that has cherry wood in it. I will try to describe the rooms. When you walk into the front door there is cherry hardwood flooring. To the left of the front door is a open area that is the formal living room and dining room. The carpet in this area is off white and is very high end carpet. If you continue to walk forward on the cherry hardwood flooring it takes you into the open kitchen, den and breakfast areas. The cabinets in the kitchen are also cherry and there is also a small desk area in the den that have cherry cabinets. The tile in the kitchen and breakfast area is a greyish color. The carpet in the den is again an off white color. The cherry flooring continues down the hall towards the bedrooms. Sorry if this is hard to imagine but we have not completed our closing so I have no pictures to show.
Here is the issues. We have only one set of living room furniture so we are going to have to purchase another set. The living room furniture we now have is oak. The pieces are coffee table, sofa table, end table and entertainment center. In our formal dining room now we have a cherry formal table but we also have a oak china cabinet. We have the cherry table in our formal dining room and the oak cabinet in our breakfast area but this will not work in the new house. The breakfast area table is glass and grey tile so this works with the kitchen.
Here is the questions: Would you put the oak furniture in the formal living room, sell the cherry table and buy a oak table to go with the oak china cabinet so that all the oak pieces are keep together in the first two rooms where there is less cherry wood? Or does it not matter if you have cherry floors and cabinets and oak furniture so close together? We are planning on buying another set of living room furniture and will either buy another dining room table or china cabinet.
This is always difficult when buying another house and trying to make your furniture fit into a new home. Finding a house in the rural area we are being moved to was difficult and this house was the best one out of all the ones we looked at.
Sorry this is long but I'm decorator challenged when it comes to furniture and what works together.
It depends on your taste. However I wouldn't mix the oak and cherry furniture in the dining room, it should match, so either get a new china cabinet or a new table whichever look you like better be it oak or cherry. The livingroom if you like oak furniture then keep it. If you don't have the money to replace but don't like it then sand it and stain it darker in like a brazilian cherry stain. The only dilema you have right now is the miss match furniture for the diningroom.
