What home price point for BRs w Luxury Vinyl Planks (LVP)

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Anonymous wrote:We're putting LVP in our basement level to replace 15 yr old carpeting. Realtor said our house will sell in a nanosecond fro $1.5M in close in McLean. I like the look of it so that's what we're doing.

A basement is different than the kids room.

+1. LVP is also fine for a beach rental

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Ranked in order of descending preference:
1) all wood
2) existing wood in the hallways, new carpet in the bedroom
3) rip out the wood hallway and do the whole level in fake wood
4) real wood in the hallway, fake wood in the bedrooms.


The mismatch is the worst. If you must have vinyl flooring, do the whole level.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a budget of 850k and will not look at homes with LVT on the main or upper level. Basement is fine, we have it in our own.

I'd rather carpet not because I like carpet but because I'd feel less weird about ripping out carpet to put in hardwood as the end goal, vs ripping out LVT. Weird hangup, but it's how I feel when I look at houses.

Respectfully, this is really stupid. Replacing flooring is a cost and a hassle, but it’s still one of the easiest things to change about a house.

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When we built our home, we did engineered hardwoods on the first and second floor and then LVP in the basement.

I’m not sure if people here look down on engineered wood as much as LVP but I just didn’t love the look and feel of LVP and while I would have preferred “real” hardwood floors, the engineered wood was the right choice for us financially and practically with two dogs and two small kids. I did also worry about resale on LVP throughout.

But overall, I agree that consistency is the most important thing. Flooring is easy to switch up, but most folks won’t feel like they have to RUSH to do so unless the house is a mash-up of different types and styles.

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I'm looking 900-1.1m range, and LVP is a turn off. Even engineered wood is a turn off to a lesser extent since it cannot be refinished. I am happy with hardwood as long as it's not the bright yellow orange color from the 90s. Nice light to medium oak is perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:What about in the kitchen? Is it okay to put LVP in the kitchen if the the adjoining rooms are hardwood? Or is it better to put hardwood in the kitchen?

100% tile in the kitchen in this scenario.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a budget of 850k and will not look at homes with LVT on the main or upper level. Basement is fine, we have it in our own.

I'd rather carpet not because I like carpet but because I'd feel less weird about ripping out carpet to put in hardwood as the end goal, vs ripping out LVT. Weird hangup, but it's how I feel when I look at houses.

Respectfully, this is really stupid. Replacing flooring is a cost and a hassle, but it’s still one of the easiest things to change about a house.

What PP is saying is at that price point, she expects to not have to rip out all the flooring.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a budget of 850k and will not look at homes with LVT on the main or upper level. Basement is fine, we have it in our own.

I'd rather carpet not because I like carpet but because I'd feel less weird about ripping out carpet to put in hardwood as the end goal, vs ripping out LVT. Weird hangup, but it's how I feel when I look at houses.

You do realize you can change it out at some point when you have the funds, right? Why would that be a deal-breaker or an otherwise good house? Changing flooring is SO EASY.

Agree. I hate LVT, but it’s a weird reason to not even look at a house.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a budget of 850k and will not look at homes with LVT on the main or upper level. Basement is fine, we have it in our own.

I'd rather carpet not because I like carpet but because I'd feel less weird about ripping out carpet to put in hardwood as the end goal, vs ripping out LVT. Weird hangup, but it's how I feel when I look at houses.

Respectfully, this is really stupid. Replacing flooring is a cost and a hassle, but it’s still one of the easiest things to change about a house.

What PP is saying is at that price point, she expects to not have to rip out all the flooring.

For $850 you’re expecting a perfect house? I now live in flyover country and I say good luck with that.

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Anonymous wrote:What about in the kitchen? Is it okay to put LVP in the kitchen if the the adjoining rooms are hardwood? Or is it better to put hardwood in the kitchen?

It is better to put hardwood in the kitchen.

+1 High end homes all have hardwood in their kitchen. No one does tile anymore. I have hardwood in my kitchens without rugs, it is fine. I don’t know what people are doing in their kitchens that would ruin hardwood.

The first time, we had leak from our sink that was not caught immediately. The second, our child flooded the area, started telling us, got distracted and ran off to play.

Similar here. Wood floors in the kitchen are great, but get quartersawn wood for stability-- you'd never know that our dishwasher and our 3YO have both amused themselves by flooding

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I don’t mind tile in kitchens if it’s part of the design, such as a fun old-fashioned hexagon (I know there must be a word for this, but I don’t know it), etc. but think you’ll make a lot more people happy if you can just continue in the wood from the living areas.

That said, my mother-in-law told me she didn’t understand why we ever put wood in our kitchen, telling me it looked foolish and that no one would ever want to buy our house when we put in on the market eventually. So to each their own.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a budget of 850k and will not look at homes with LVT on the main or upper level. Basement is fine, we have it in our own.

I'd rather carpet not because I like carpet but because I'd feel less weird about ripping out carpet to put in hardwood as the end goal, vs ripping out LVT. Weird hangup, but it's how I feel when I look at houses.

Respectfully, this is really stupid. Replacing flooring is a cost and a hassle, but it’s still one of the easiest things to change about a house.

What PP is saying is at that price point, she expects to not have to rip out all the flooring.

For $850 you’re expecting a perfect house? I now live in flyover country and I say good luck with that.

No, see my follow up posts. I'm not saying it's logical, it's just a gut "ick" reaction. I don't want to have to rip out something 100% brand new like LVP in an entire house to send it to a dump, I'd rather rip out something old/used - not logical, but emotionally feels less wasteful. Also, LVP is usually pretty recently added so when the homes are "updated" but with LVP - they look cheap (along with multiple other factors, like they did LVP AND also did a sh*tty kitchen layout) and it makes us question what else was done that was cheap. So there are multiple factors that go into that "ick" factor when seeing a home in which the update included LVP. Plus the sellers usually then try to price it at "renovated" price levels when, knowing you're going to replace that flooring, I'd rather just buy a home with good bones and older wood floors in reasonable condition for a lower price, or hold out for a "renovated" home that has decent wood floors.

It's a gut reaction, sure, not necessarily a logical one. We've replaced all of the wood floors in our home, so BTDT (and yes, we have LVP in our own basement, which I think is fine for a basement). We will update flooring before moving into the house because it's not fun to install wood flooring throughout a home when you're living there (again, BTDT).

Would we buy a house with LVP if we really loved it? Sure, but again, have yet to see a house that appears well done with LVP. And we're not looking for fancy, we're looking at basic SFHs in the Burke, West Springfield, Fairfax areas.

But hey, I'm just one buyer letting a future seller know my gut reaction.

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I would never do this, OP. I live in an area with 60s and 70s split levels/foyers. The flippers are buying houses near me and rather than refinishing the original wood floors that run through the entire house in these homes they are putting in grey LVP. It looks awful, but the houses are selling. Price point is around $1 million. It is surprising. I think it is just cheaper than refinishing the wood floors.

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Yuck