Kitchen flooring poll

[Tea-rific]

What type of flooring do you have in your kitchen? Are you happy with it?

We currently have 80's vinyl and I want to upgrade. The rest of our first floor is oak hardwoods.

[wawa]

90's vinyl in a checkerboard pattern. I don't hate it, but I certainly don't love it. It has really obvious wear patterns in the foot traffic areas, but it's easy to clean and holds up to spills and such.

My ideal kitchen would be a wood floor. MH wants tile. Pros and cons to both.

[InBetweenDays]

We have hardwood and I'm very happy with it.

[emoflamingo]

I have tile. I hate it, but probably because it ALWAYS looks dirty (the style) and the people who installed it couldn't level a floor to save their lives, so some of them are cracked and we had to regrout some places. If it were a solid color and installed correctly, I'd be happy.

[kaylie]

We have vinyl wood planks and I HATE it will a passion. Eww eww eww. It's quite obviously fake and I can't wait to replace it. The only good thing about it is that it takes a beating. When we replace we'll do tile.

[kaylie]

Maybe I have icky vinyl plank? It's a darker shade with lots of knots, almost trying to look rustic which I don't think works for a house that was built in the 80s. I really don't like the way it feels under my feet.

[kyliek29]

We put down the vinyl tile with the sticky adhesive on the back. It was cheap & really easy!

[simpsongal]

We have vinyl. I like vinyl b/c it's soft underfoot and pretty low maintenance. But I'll probably go with tile when we upgrade and carrry the tile throughout the entryway/kitchen and 1st floor bath (there's 4 different types of 70's-tastic vinyl now).

[aweilba]

I have tile, but I hate it. I really want hardwoods. The tile is very small with lots of grout lines, which makes it really difficult to keep clean. We have to mop at least once a week, and get down on our hands and knees quite often. We want to replace it within the next couple of years.

[minniebee]

May 29, 2012 15:12:28 GMT -5 InBetweenDays said:

We have hardwood and I'm very happy with it.

Ditto

[pickle123]

I would love real hardwood floors in our new house, but with a 100lb golden retriever, I'd get sick about the scratches. We are doing a really nice wood laminate.

[tarheels]

My favorite flooring for a kitchen is sealed brick, but it's definitely a certain look. It might have to be done while the house is being built, idk.

I've had every flooring for a kitchen and I'm fine with all of them. If there's going to be wood, it needs to be good stuff and sealed really well.

[vanillahip]

We have vinyl tile and I'm pretty happy with it! About to lay grout able vinyl tiles in the next few weeks.

FTR, we installed resilient vinyl planks upstairs (trafficmaster in ironwood) and I'm in LOVE with it. So cheap and easy and trendy, but cheap enough that it wouldn't kill me to replace in X years when I want a change or if it gets messed up. Seriously, the stuff was practically cheaper than a nice area rug and I get compliments on it from everyone who sees it! (we have hardwoods in the rest of the downstairs and carpeted stairs so I don't kill myself lol)

[darby]

We currently have ugly, dated vinyl. I hate it with a passion. It is slowly moving up on the renovation list. We haven't decided what we'll put down. It will either be slate (super impractical, I know), tile or cork.

[april37]

We have wood in our current house and I love it.

[boiler717]

Current house is black and white vinyl. We are doing hardwoods in the new house.

[aprilfool]

We have HW right now and are getting hardwood in the new house. I like the clean transition from kitchen to family room (or hallway, etc).

[sawyerthedestroyer]

Pergo laminate. We love it. Between the dog, the cat, and the toddler it's proven itself indestructible.

[bonquiqui]

We have cherry colored maple flooring and I LOVE it :heart:

[Susie]

We have laminate (that looks like linoleum, but isn't). There's nothing really great about it, except that it came with the house and doesn't cost me anything to keep. It's easy upkeep with snow/salt in the winter and dog hair all year, I guess. And Doggie Derkins' toenails don't hurt it.

When we eventually redo the kitchen, the kitchen + foyer (continuous flooring stretch) will be done in porcelain tile. I may put heat under it -- we're doing that in the powder room this summer, we'll see how awesome it turns out to be.

I am all about durability in the foyer + kitchen, since they are super high traffic and abuse.

[heliocentric]

We have the ugliest vinyl tile right now, but we're getting stained cork when we redo the kitchen.

My parents just got some kind of Armstrong vinyl tile that looks similar to stone. The tiles are larger than 12"x12" and there are grout lines between the tiles so it doesn't look like typical vinyl. It's surprisingly nice.

[lightbulbsun]

We have tile and I like it. The rest of the floor on that level is hardwood, so I like that it's different, and it's also really easy to clean.

[steamboat185]

We have the tile that looks like wood. I really like it - easy to clean and super durable.

[mrsjay]

May 29, 2012 17:09:54 GMT -5 minniebee said:

May 29, 2012 15:12:28 GMT -5 InBetweenDays said:

We have hardwood and I'm very happy with it.

Ditto

Ditto

[bluesmoothie]

I hate having hardwood in the kitchen. Hate, hate! I'm constantly worried about liquid spilling on the floor and sitting there. I feel like it's never clean. I'd rather have tile, but it will never happen with our open layout.

[Deleted]

We have cork. I'm not crazy about it. It hasn't held up well in the high-traffic parts of the kitchen like by the back door. We're probably re-doing the kitchen sometime in the next year, so we'll rip it out at that point. We're debating oak, tile or linoleum. We have oak in the rest of the house, and there's something to be said for continuity. However, my parents' hardwoods in the high-traffic kitchen definitely have more wear on them (30 years+ old) than the other floors, even after a couple of refinishings; the wear shows up there pretty quickly. Also, we're also trying to use period-appropriate materials, and if we did go with wood, a softer secondary wood would probably be more appropriate but not what we want. Tile was probabaly too high-end for our very modest bungalow, but it's indestructible, fairly cheap and easy to maintain. I don't know much about linoleum, but I want to learn more. It also seems really easy and cheap. I stay away from all vinyl in our house. I'm very concerned about its off-gasing, deadliness in a house fire and the un-EF mfg. process.

[peachdragon]

We have hardwood flooring, and we've been very happy with it. There have been a few pot-drops (and therefore some dings), but we don't mind.

Also, I've noticed there a heel-divots in front of the sink. I guess that's from when we have fancy parties and I stand there washing the dishes!

[winofairy]

May 29, 2012 17:09:54 GMT -5 minniebee said:

May 29, 2012 15:12:28 GMT -5 InBetweenDays said:

We have hardwood and I'm very happy with it.

Ditto

Exactly this ^^^

[emjacobs]

Ceramic tile in the kitchen and dining room. I picked the color out specifically because it already looks a little dirty

Its an off white base with strains of black, brown, tan, and reds through it and some texture so if it gets a little dirty it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb. We have the same tile in all the bathrooms and in the basement foyer.

[housegeek]

Juno, just a FYI, not all vinyls are high VOC and unEF. We're getting Tarkett sheet vinyl, which seems to pride themselves on being people and earth friendly. ( tarkettna.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=uccTBaqQN2E%3d&tabid=59)