hardwood or ceramic tile in kitchen?

[Anonymous]

I love the hardwood floors in my kitchen. In fact, in our old house, we ripped out the tile (which was actually harder to clean due to the crevices and the grout) and replaced it with hardwood. When we renovated our current kitchen, I never considered anything other than hardwood.

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Anonymous wrote:I know I'll be in the minority, but I like ceramic tile in a kitchen. If it's a very open floor plan I'd keep the floor continuous with wood, but otherwise I'd go for ceramic.

same

I love ceramic.

[Anonymous]

Love hardwood - warmer, looks great. I don't worry about scratches and dings because if you have h/w, that will happen anywhere in the house.

I rented a house for year with ceramic tile and found it hard to stand on for long periods, cold in the winter (I like to go barefoot most of the time) and definitely a dish-breaker (I also had ceramic countertops so it was a double-whammy).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I'll be in the minority, but I like ceramic tile in a kitchen. If it's a very open floor plan I'd keep the floor continuous with wood, but otherwise I'd go for ceramic.

same

I love ceramic.

Another one that loves my ceramic tile floors. We have an open floor plan and the front hallway leads into the house, around the corner and into the kitchen. All ceramic. We currently have carpet in the rooms, but when the carpet wears out, we'll replace with hardwoods. I think hardwoods in the rooms and ceramic in the hallways, kitchen and baths is the best of both worlds. I'm not a big fan of monotonous hardwoods across the entire floor.

[Anonymous]

Reviving this thread. We're looking at a new construction townhouse with an open floor plan on main level. I'm scared of water damage in the kitchen, but I think it will look weird to have ceramic break up the floor. The kitchen is in between the living room and the dining room.

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Anonymous wrote:Reviving this thread. We're looking at a new construction townhouse with an open floor plan on main level. I'm scared of water damage in the kitchen, but I think it will look weird to have ceramic break up the floor. The kitchen is in between the living room and the dining room.

I don't think reviving this thread will help. You're going to get the same mix of responses as on the first two pages.

[Anonymous]

Since it hasn't really been said yet, I vote neither. I don't want to stand on ceramic and I neither like the look of wood in the kitchen nor want to baby it. We're using Marmoleum.
If your kitchen is in an open layout between two spaces you plan to use hardwoods in, though, I'd probably want to continue the hardwoods into the kitchen and make sure they are excellently sealed.

[Anonymous]

I love Marmoleum--I think it looks cool and feels great on the feet. My parents' Marmoleum floor has started to peel up a bit, though.

We did hardwood in our kitchen mostly so it would blend in with the rest of the house, which it does. And it has held up fine. I kind of like the dings and scratches. I don't like a super-new looking wood floor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Marmoleum--I think it looks cool and feels great on the feet. My parents' Marmoleum floor has started to peel up a bit, though.

We did hardwood in our kitchen mostly so it would blend in with the rest of the house, which it does. And it has held up fine. I kind of like the dings and scratches. I don't like a super-new looking wood floor.

Ughh marmoleum is ghetto basically trailer home vinyl flooring

[Anonymous]

We have wood floors in our kitchen. HATE them. They do look pretty but are impossible to keep clean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are going to redo a kitchen in a house we just bought. The rest of the house has hardwood floors, except the kitchen. Existing flooring is vinyl which we are obviously going to replace. The question is whether to extend the hardwood floors into the kitchen or install a high-end ceramic tile. I like the look of hardwood floors in the kitchen but I tend to think that ceramic tile may be more practical for cleaning and heavy traffic. From all the rooms in the house I think the kitchen is the room with the highest traffic. Prefinished hardwood floors may be more resilient but I don't like the look, I'd rather have the floors finished onsite.

Do you have hardwood floors in the kitchen and wished you had something different, such as tiles? or is there any other flooring material that we should consider (not vinyl)?

thanks for your advise

Have you looked at high-end vinyl tile? I looks like ceramic tile and can be set with grout lines so it is almost indistinguishable from ceramic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are going to redo a kitchen in a house we just bought. The rest of the house has hardwood floors, except the kitchen. Existing flooring is vinyl which we are obviously going to replace. The question is whether to extend the hardwood floors into the kitchen or install a high-end ceramic tile. I like the look of hardwood floors in the kitchen but I tend to think that ceramic tile may be more practical for cleaning and heavy traffic. From all the rooms in the house I think the kitchen is the room with the highest traffic. Prefinished hardwood floors may be more resilient but I don't like the look, I'd rather have the floors finished onsite.

Do you have hardwood floors in the kitchen and wished you had something different, such as tiles? or is there any other flooring material that we should consider (not vinyl)?

thanks for your advise

Have you looked at high-end vinyl tile? I looks like ceramic tile and can be set with grout lines so it is almost indistinguishable from ceramic.

Terrible, how about fake granite plastic , or pleather

[Anonymous]

i like poured concrete

[Anonymous]

I have hardwood in the kitchen, always worried it will be ruined. I would put ceramic tile that looks like hardware in the kitchen. The best of both worlds.