Seems like a terrible idea to me.
You make one mistake one time and bingo, you cost yourself a few grand to have it sanded, leveled, varnished, and polished.
What the fuck are you doing to your floors?? Hardwood is easy to clean and doesn’t crack like tile.
Wasn’t my floor, friend dropped a steak knife which landed tip down, took a big ass chip out of it. Guess they didn’t varnish/seal it, they just stained it?
It looks nice. And if it’s finished well spills will clean if you’re quick.
Tacking on, tile is cold and vinyl looks silly.
Also, nothing survives a drop to tile, ever. And you’re left trying to clean shards and sauce out of the grout. Fuck my tile.
You should try installing some good ole linoleum. We solved kitchen flooring in the 1860s but people need to install expensive floors that are worse in every way because… why exactly? I don’t know. I have hardwood floors that are 17 years old and they need to be replaced. Linoleum floors last as long as 40 years. I’m thinking of going old school.
Since I can’t afford to replace the tile our apartment came with, I got a set of vinyl floor mats and put rug gripper anti-skid pads underneath, the result being like anti-fatigue mats but not as tall, heavy, or ugly. They cover most of the areas I might possibly drop a dish and have already saved one casserole lid. They wipe clean and are easy to move to mop the tile. They won’t last forever but one day I’ll be able to do linoleum.
Wear and tear adds to the charm of a well lived kitchen imo
Couldn’t agree more.
Our kitchen table was pretty expensive when we got it and is destroyed from a heap of kids use and family meals over about 22 years. It is firmly agreed (by them too) that when my wife and I die it will be the only thing the kids fight over possession of.
In Brittain they often have carpet in the toilet. How tf do you clean that, it will get soaked with piss, you dirty fucking Brits.
Welcome to the 70’s-80’s when carpeting was de rigueur for bathrooms and kitchens.
Fun story … my son was a climber so all food was in the highest cupboards. One time I needed a bathroom break, and in under 5 minutes he’d dragged a kitchen chair to the counter, climbed up, took down the flour and dumped it all over his little sister. Honest to gawd all I could see of her was her dark eyes in a cloud of white.
And just to boost his creativeness here, he decided to move the chair to the sink, grabbed a cup of water and they started making flour pies on the carpet.
Gotta love kids!
I have 3 kittens in their puberty, that’s already more then I can handle. I’m skipping kids.
My wife and I had ceramic tile installed in our kitchen when we remodeled our house. Didn’t like it so four years later we had it torn out and had oak flooring installed. Couldn’t be happier. High quality hardwood floors are really durable.
A good poly and an appropriate hardwood selection can do a lot to protect the floor.
Would I ever do a natural wood floor in a kitchen or full bathroom? Absolutely not because I actually use a kitchen and have a dog that would maul hardwood with zoomies.
IMO the best flooring for kitchens is cork or real linoleum (not vinyl).
I have stained concrete and i love it. Spill or pets = spray it and wipe it up. Scrapes= reminders of the people we’ve had over, the chairs we’ve dragged up to the kitchen table, and the dancing in the living room. I also have soapstone counters because i like to see the scraped circles and remember bottles of wine and whiskey that we’ve shared. I’ll be sad when we sell it. If they want new counters, I’ll buy the old ones from them.
Sealed concrete and terrazzo are good choices too, but IMO aren’t the best because the slightly softer surfaces of linoleum and cork might save you from dropped dishes or cookware shattering or denting, if you’re lucky.
We’re about to move into a different house and will have to replace all flooring after foundation repairs. I would go with linoleum but i don’t think i can convince my husband that it’s not the same as vinyl. Also, i don’t want any height changes so I’m not sure what floorings i can put in the kitchen and living that are level.
I would go with linoleum but i don’t think i can convince my husband that it’s not the same as vinyl.
“Vinyl is bad because it’s made of petroleum, whereas real linoleum is made of plants and is therefore more eco-friendly” isn’t sufficient?
(I have to admit, the other advantages of linoleum over vinyl are… not much.)
Linoleum is also antibacterial, which is a good property for a kitchen floor.
I don’t think so. He’ll say it still looks like old rolled out vinyl.
It’s easier to clean than carpet
Edit: I can only assume that one down vote is from the Big Carpet Cleaning lobby
Are you saying there’s an issue with my kitchen shag carpet? It matches the bathroom and ceilings so well!
And includes all the nutrients a growing body needs!
You just need to snuggle your face into it and breathe deeply!
When I bought my house it had 2 layers of carpet in the kitchen. I replaced it with hardwood because I didn’t want to stain the carpet.
Hey, it’s better than carpet.
Though I do get your point, ceramic tile is probably best, but to each their own 🤷♂️
Throw rugs and tile in mine
Peacocking.
Those sound like poor people problems
