recommendation for kitchen floors

[Anonymous]

We are redoing our kitchen and need to replace the floors. We currently have hardwood in our living room/dining room area, but don't want to do hardwood in the kitchen. What is popular right now? We will be moving in 2-5 years so we want something with good resale value. We are thinking of doing vinyl wood plank floor, but it wouldn't match our hardwood floors. Any other suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Vinyl white and black square design.

[Anonymous]

Tile if you don't do wood.

[Anonymous]

I think that vinyl plank is going to look odd next to real hardwood and I also have doubts that it will still look nice in 5 years. Consider ceramic tile for durability and resale value.

[Anonymous]

Cork is nice.

[Anonymous]

Check out linoleum. Better than vinyl. There are some very cool designs, too.

[Anonymous]

I've never heard someone say they wouldn't buy a kitchen with ceramic or porcelain tile. I'd go with that. Tile is pretty standard for a kitchen floor, especially if the house isn't open plan and you don't have the same hardwoods throughout the whole first floor.

You can put a rug in front of the sink for more comfort while washing dishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard someone say they wouldn't buy a kitchen with ceramic or porcelain tile. I'd go with that. Tile is pretty standard for a kitchen floor, especially if the house isn't open plan and you don't have the same hardwoods throughout the whole first floor.

You can put a rug in front of the sink for more comfort while washing dishes.

I hate tile/ceramic in a kitchen. I don't know that any kitchen floor would be a deal killer for me, since it's not a permanent flaw, but tile/ceramic would make me drop my offer the most.

We just discussed kitchen floors in another family-oriented internet forum I post in, and every person with tile said they hated theirs, both because it was painful to stand on and because everything shatters when dropped (or is so heavy it chips/breaks the tile). Preferences were split between wood, cork, and Marmoleum (mostly depending on the style of the rest of the house), but nobody wanted tile.

[Anonymous]

There needs to be a new, revolutionary, but luxe solution for kitchen floors (like the new finishes for appliances they are just starting to dabble into). I have wood and it is realllly tough with kids and dogs, and island counter stools... I take good care of it with bona and soft pads under the stools, but you can only do so much.

Before that I had tile but yes, it was murder on your feet, and chilly. I also hated scrubbing out the grout and that just had to be done on that particular floor. But I did like that I could use strong cleaners and really mop it, which I can't with wood...

Here's hoping that something completely revolutionary is in vogue when my floors start to look a mess

[Anonymous]

There needs to be a new, revolutionary, but luxe solution for kitchen floors (like the new finishes for appliances they are just starting to dabble into)

Marmoleum---which is a composite of linoleum and cork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There needs to be a new, revolutionary, but luxe solution for kitchen floors (like the new finishes for appliances they are just starting to dabble into)

Marmoleum---which is a composite of linoleum and cork.

Agreed, but spring for sheet Marmoleum and a specialized installer rather than the "click" planks. We used click and love our kitchen, but some of the seams are just slightly visible, and when we had a tiny leak from under the sink the nearby seam puffed up. Now that the leak is fixed the seam is back to normal/invisible, but a continuous sheet would have been a lot safer in retrospect.

Also, I know there's a collection of DCUM Marmoleum haters who will show up soon. Definitely a more modern/Euro look than wood, so depends on the rest of your kitchen and house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard someone say they wouldn't buy a kitchen with ceramic or porcelain tile.

Then you haven't been listening. I hate tile in the kitchen. I might make an offer if I loved every other thing about the house, but I would expect tearing out the tile to be a nightmare, and I would drop my offer considerably. It's much easier to take out wood and put in tile than the reverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard someone say they wouldn't buy a kitchen with ceramic or porcelain tile.

Then you haven't been listening. I hate tile in the kitchen. I might make an offer if I loved every other thing about the house, but I would expect tearing out the tile to be a nightmare, and I would drop my offer considerably. It's much easier to take out wood and put in tile than the reverse.

+1. I hate tile too. It's the hardest material to remove that you could choose. I'd rather have linoleum (still yuck) because at least I can rip that up easier. I prefer wood floors actually. Much softer on heels and dishes have a chance of not breaking when they hit the wood.

[Anonymous]

When I started looking for upgraded flooring options for the kitchen, I found a ton of people who wished they had just stayed with sheet vinyl. For that reason, I did not replace the kitchen floor and just stuck with the neutral color tile-look sheet vinyl we put in 12 years ago. People who walk through assume that it's tile (because it's neutral and they're not looking too closely.) Unlike any of the other solutions, it's waterproof, has very few seams, soft and warm to walk on, and durable for a high-traffic area. Seriously, consider Armstrong or Mannington and you'd be surprised how nice it looks.

[Anonymous]

We have wood floors in our kitchen and I love it.