Has anyone ever used this for their kitchen? Or seen it in person? I’m considering it in our kitchen in a color that matches the oak floors in their rest of our house. Thinking of it as an option if I don’t want to do hardwoods in the kitchen. Thank you!
My dad has it in the bathrooms in his beach house:
The rest of the house is LVP in a similar gray:
It was all redone about a year ago, after a pipe burst and almost the entire house had to be gutted and redone. We are happy with both floors, but particularly with the bathroom tile. I think the tile has more variation so it looks more like wood than the LVP.
I love it for places where wood isn’t ideal and like most things some looks really nice and some looks really bad/fake. And I’d be careful with trying to match the existing oak flors because it won’t look the same and the sheen is different. Maybe get some samples and see if you can live with the difference and if you think it’s close enough to try to match or if you want to purposefully contrast.
And I’d be careful with trying to match the existing oak flors because it won’t look the same and the sheen is different.
100% this. I wouldn't try to match them if they're going to abut each other; they will never look the same and you're better off getting something that's clearly meant to be different.
That said, I much prefer having hardwoods in the kitchen. Is there a particular reason you're considering not doing it?
Post by dr.girlfriend on Jan 7, 2020 17:20:07 GMT -5
We have it in our new master bathroom and I like it so far, but we didn't try to make it look anything like the rest of our wood floors. We have the same engineered hardwood in our kitchen that we have throughout the ground floor -- I just make sure to mop up any spills immediately.
We don’t have wood-look tile, but we do have ceramic tile in our kitchen and I hate it. It’s so hard on my knees and back if I’m cooking a lot. We generally don’t wear shoes in the house, but if I’ve got a lot to do in there, I put my shoes on or wear solid soled slippers. I always thought people were exaggerating the difference, but having lived with both, Wood is so much easier on my body! It looks nice (except the grout sucks), but not as functional.
We had softer wood floors at our last house, but they were fine. There were little marks from dropping stuff, but not noticeable...and after you get past the first few, then it’s just adding character. (If you drop stuff on tile, you may not have a damaged floor, but you likely don’t have that dish anymore! Tile is just as unforgiving to plates as it is knees! We never had an issue with water, I just cleaned it up as soon as I could.
If you have oak elsewhere, I’d just continue with that. It’s timeless.
We have it in our kitchen, family room, powder room area. I love it so much and I wish we had installed it throughout the downstairs. We have 3 cats and a dog. Our wood floors are ruined in several spots but the tile looks just as good as the day we installed it.
I have wood floor in our kitchen. I didn't realize it was a thing until I posted (probably here) about hating it and found out that some people love it. I think you either love it or hate it.
Our wood floor came with the house and I despise it. It's great to clean up drips and spills as they happen to preserve the floor, but slow leaks that the appliances are bound have had over time? Our floor is destroyed in some places - some visible, some not. Wood + high moisture areas are not a good combo in my book.
We will have to figure something out, since our dining room, kitchen, and living room all share the same floor and don't have any natural breaks for switching between surface types. For now, I'm just pretending not to see the swollen/rotted/discolored wood floors by the dishwasher and sink.
We have broken significantly less dishes - especially wine glasses - though, so I guess that's a plus.
Post by dr.girlfriend on Jan 8, 2020 10:40:56 GMT -5
I think if I were doing a tile kitchen in a house with wood floors otherwise I would just do something that is clearly tile (like a ceramic field tile or nice cement tile) and not try to camouflage it as wood. Unless it was very open concept with no real delineation of space.
We have it throughout our house and LOVE it. It was the main flooring in our last house, too. FWIW, we live near the beach, have 2 dogs, and 2 kids. It's great never having to worry about spills (or when the kids come home wet from the pool or beach) ruining our hardwoods and it's so easy to clean. I use a steam mop weekly.
We have Daltile "Emblem" variety in beige in our current house - we went light because we have a yellow lab and it hides his fur better LOL. Our last house had the same tile but in brown (looked like cherry), and it was better at hiding dirt but the dog fur stood out more. There is also an all-gray version but it doesn't look as natural. People are always surprised when they realize it's tile b/c it looks like wide-plank wood.
Post by penguingrrl on Jan 8, 2020 17:38:15 GMT -5
I think it can look nice, but I’ve never had good experiences with tile, especially in the kitchen.
My favorite was our rental where I dropped a big bowl, which promptly shattered into a million pieces. And the tile floor cracked with it.
I also find it really hard on my knees, hips, and back if I stand on tile for a long time.
My mom has hardwood in her kitchen and I love it. I can stand on it for hours without a problem, she’s never had any sort of water damage on it. She did get it refinished after 15 years, which is shorter than some hardwood lasts, but that was a function of being in a high traffic area. Also, she had moved out and had a tenant and was moving back it, so refinishing the floors while the house was unoccupied made sense. She could easily have gone longer without refinishing if the opportunity hadn’t been there.
I have wood look linoleum in my kitchen. It’s fine. It’s starting to look like crap now, but I suspect the people we bought from bought the cheapest they could get their hands on. It has very visible water damage from a leak they left under the sink, but any floor would have been damaged by that.
We did it in a bathroom and I really love it. But I don't know that I'd try to match it to an existing wood floor. I would want them to be distinctly different.
I wouldn't put next to real wood. Why not just get a nice tile for the kitchen? I have hardwood everywhere except my kitchen where I went with a faux marble which looks good and actually does a good job of hiding my coffee dribbles between housekeeper visists.
We have cork flooring. Obviously, cork look porcelain tile flooring isn't a thing, (or if it is, we haven't seen it), so we looked for tile in a color that blended well with our cork flooring.
I have a thing about flooring being similar in color if not material, so that you don't have visual breaks. I don't expect anyone to think that we have the same flooring throughout the house, but I don't want the changes in flooring to be so obvious that they distract from the things that I would rather people see.
We are considering doing wood-look tile in our basement and new playroom addition, but I am worried about the floors feeling too cold - and not really sure I want to spend the $$$ on in floor heating either. So I'll be following this thread!
Tile in the basement is actually a pretty good idea since it can be sanitized in the even of water. Yes, they will feel cold, get large area rugs for the family & play spaces. We did it and it really wasn't that bad.
Post by thatgirl2478 on Jan 12, 2020 11:29:18 GMT -5
I don't hate the look, but as others have said, if it's next to real wood it looks... off. We're going to be 'those' people who have 3 different flooring surfaces in our first floor: wood in the living/dining room, tile in the entry/half bath/kitchen/eating area/back hall and laundry, and thick plush carpet in the family room.