Replace wood floor with tile

[Anonymous]

The first level of my townhouse has currently tile in the foyer, vinyl floor in the kitchen and hardwood floors in the dining and living rooms. The stairs going up are hardwood. My initial thought was to go with hardwood for the kitchen, but now I am thinking about going with matching tile for foyer, kitchen and dining room, and leave the rest as hardwood. Any thoughts on why I shouldn't go with my new idea?

[Anonymous]

If you can find a picture of a tiled dining room that doesn't look ugly, go for it.

[Anonymous]

Do you want a dining room with tile? Where is the living room? I would go with your initial thought - why the change of mind?

[Anonymous]

Don't take hardwood out of the dining room.

Growing up in Florida I an tell you that tile is cold and hard and unforgiving. Any thing that drops will shatter in a million pieces. When it's wet, it's slippery like ice. And it's a bear to stand on to do dishes.

[Anonymous]

The living room is a few steps down from the dining room. The main reason for considering tile for the foyer, kitchen and dining room is that I'm not sure I can get an exact match for the existing hardwood. The hardwood in the dining and living room is old, the hardwood in the stairs in new and while they are similar they are not an exact match for color. I wouldn't want a third unmatching hardwood for the kitchen! If the dining room floors were tiled, it would separate the hardwood in the stairs and the living room, so the difference would probably not be noticeable.

[Anonymous]

Tile throughout the house is a very Florida thing. We have a home in Florida and replaced the tile with wood because I got so sick of trying to keep the tile and grout clean. Just keep maintenance in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The living room is a few steps down from the dining room. The main reason for considering tile for the foyer, kitchen and dining room is that I'm not sure I can get an exact match for the existing hardwood. The hardwood in the dining and living room is old, the hardwood in the stairs in new and while they are similar they are not an exact match for color. I wouldn't want a third unmatching hardwood for the kitchen! If the dining room floors were tiled, it would separate the hardwood in the stairs and the living room, so the difference would probably not be noticeable.

I wouldn't worry about getting an exact match but something in the same color family for the wood, e.g., reddish, brownish:
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You could go with tile in the foyer and kitchen or just the foyer.

[Anonymous]

Don't you think it would make more sense to replace the entire first floor with the match to the newer hardwood that is on the stairs? Them you would only have one type of flooring.

[Anonymous]

Everything breaks on tile. Hate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't you think it would make more sense to replace the entire first floor with the match to the newer hardwood that is on the stairs? Them you would only have one type of flooring.

That is also an option I'm considering.

[Anonymous]

You don't necessarily have to replace all of the hardwood to get it to match. Put the new wood in, sand the old wood and stain it the same color. We did it in our house and it look amazing. All hardwoods on the entire main floor.