tile floor not in FL?

[illgetthere]

This isn't happening right away, but we are planning on redoing our kitchen. Original plan called for changing vinyl to tile. However, we now want to take down a side wall that separates the kitchen from a small hallway that only has our bedroom on it. If we continued with the tile, we would step onto it right from our bedroom. For some reason, that feels like it would be weird and is now making me consider hardwood. Harwood over tile will easily triple the flooring price, and the space is somewhat large. WWMMD?

[barefootcontessa]

I would go for hardwood. it will look better and things are less likely to break on hardwood.

[UnderProtest]

I have tile in my kitchen and family room here in London. There are large tiles (12x24 or 12x36 maybe?) and are brick patterned instead of matching seams. Other than hating the texture of the tile, I don't mind it at all.

[savan]

We are having our kitchen remodeled next year. The flow of the room is such that it shares the same flooring as the family room. Right now it's hardwood but it looks terrible. We, and the previous owners, have beat the crap out of it. I plan to replace it all with tile so our family room will be tiled. I'll probably try to go for 12x24 tile or something of the sort that looks less like traditional tile.

[tiffany81]

My parents had tile in the keeping room (small tv room area), eat in kitchen area, kitchen, hallway connecting the laundry. A bedroom was off the hallway that was carpeted inside. It seemed fine. The rest of the house was wood, except the upstairs bedrooms had carpet. They lived in GA.

[Pom]

Jul 29, 2014 9:44:07 GMT -5 illgetthere said:

This isn't happening right away, but we are planning on redoing our kitchen. Original plan called for changing vinyl to tile. However, we now want to take down a side wall that separates the kitchen from a small hallway that only has our bedroom on it. If we continued with the tile, we would step onto it right from our bedroom. For some reason, that feels like it would be weird and is now making me consider hardwood. Harwood over tile will easily triple the flooring price, and the space is somewhat large. WWMMD?

We have tile in the WHOLE house except 2 guest bedrooms.  Oh wait, our bedroom master closet has carpet too.   I would totally rather have wood floors if you can fit it in your budget.  It seems "warmer" to me.  We haven't done any changes because we have french doors to the living room and master that open on to the patio and pool deck.  Thus, we are always walking in with wet feet.  If the pool wasn't a consideration, I would totally change it.

That said, I love the option @songforyou posted.

[h]

We have tile in our entry and the connecting hallway, which leads to our bedroom, so we step onto tile when we exit our bedroom. I don't find it odd. I have a strong preference for hardwood over tile in living areas and bedrooms, but I think tile is great for kitchens, baths, and entries regardless of geographic location.

[dragonfly08]

As a compromise...my parents have a gorgeous tile floor in their kitchen that looks like hardwood planks. DH and I actually wanted to use something similar in our kitchen when we did our reno, but it turns out that we'd have had to do a crap ton of work to make the existing joists capable of supporting the weight so tile wasn't an option.

And FWIW, my parents also have tile everywhere in their downstairs except the two bedrooms. So they step right out of their MBR onto it, same from the guest room. I've never thought it was odd.

[ssmjlm]

Can you do HW in florida? I guess it depends on the subfloors.

I would do HW, but if I couldn't do that, I would do the hardwood style tile.

[craftyone]

we are putting tile in a bathroom that looks like hardwood.

search for faux hardwood tile

[illgetthere]

Jul 29, 2014 12:34:59 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

Can you do HW in florida? I guess it depends on the subfloors.

I would do HW, but if I couldn't do that, I would do the hardwood style tile.

We're not in FL. In FL, it seems somewhat common to have an entire house of tile (at least, in the houses around the beach).

[ssmjlm]

Jul 29, 2014 12:40:56 GMT -5 illgetthere said:

Jul 29, 2014 12:34:59 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

Can you do HW in florida? I guess it depends on the subfloors.

I would do HW, but if I couldn't do that, I would do the hardwood style tile.

We're not in FL. In FL, it seems somewhat common to have an entire house of tile (at least, in the houses around the beach).

I swear I read you were in FL in the OP.

Must need more coffee.

[curlygirlygirl]

Our entire home is hardwood floors, including the kitchen. We had it installed last year and so far, I love it!

[illgetthere]

Jul 29, 2014 12:42:37 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

Jul 29, 2014 12:40:56 GMT -5 illgetthere said:

We're not in FL. In FL, it seems somewhat common to have an entire house of tile (at least, in the houses around the beach).

I swear I read you were in FL in the OP.

Must need more coffee.

Probably the subject line; it's very poorly worded ha

[Mimi]

We have a room with carpet off the kitchen (which has tiles). It looks fine to me.

By the way, are you sure hardwood is more expensive? Our site-finished hardwood was a lot cheaper than our tile floors installed.

[ECB]

When I first read tile floor all the way through, I have a specific picture in my head that makes me shudder, TBH.  Basically the square white/light tiles w/ obvious grout lines between.

BUT as I read the thread, um, yeah... there are some GREAT tile options out there now.  So much more versatility from what I picture!  If you can find a nice tile that doesn't really scream TILE (faux hardwood or not), go for it.  I think it could look great.

[h]

Jul 29, 2014 12:48:18 GMT -5 Mimi said:

We have a room with carpet off the kitchen (which has tiles). It looks fine to me.

By the way, are you sure hardwood is more expensive? Our site-finished hardwood was a lot cheaper than our tile floors installed.

We have installed both tile and pre-finished hardwood over the past year, and they were similar in cost once you factor in installation. The materials were much cheaper for the tile, but installation was more expensive. The hardwoods ended up being about $1 more per square foot installed. But our tile is porcelain. Using travertine or another natural stone would presumably be more expensive.

[pamela]

I don't think it's weird at all. The house we're selling is all tile except the bedrooms. It's the 18" squares which I much prefer over small tiles. And the smaller the grout lines the better. I actually wish the tile they did the kitchen/breakfast room with in our new house had been continued throughout instead of the cheap engineered hardwood (that I could have sworn was laminate until I found a box of scraps). I prefer hardwood, if it's good quality. But tile is super easy to care for.