Wood looking tile vs luxury vinyl
Shelley Schroeder
8 years ago
We cannot decide if we should do wood looking tile or luxury vinyl flooring. I would like there to be one consistent floor throughout the living space of our new build, but haven't really seen someone around here do LVT all over! We would continue the LVT into the main bathroom and then carpet just the rooms. Anyone have thoughts on how that would look and the warmth/hardness? If you have LVT in your living space I would love to see pictures.
I have posted a picture of where we would do the LVT, all of the space in inside the yellow. Also if we do wood looking tile, we would do carpet in the great room.
Interested in any feedback or product recommendations.
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elatsch
8 years ago
Sandy
8 years agoShelley, here is a photo of our LVP in the entry. We did it in all the rooms except for the bedrooms and master bath. Our house was finished in November, and so far this floor is performing great. It cleans up easily after the pets and is not showing any issues from their nails. We have 2 dogs and 3 cats that run through the house quite a bit.
We decided to do the LVP because we wanted something that looked good but would hold up under the kind of traffic we put on it.
In this area I have seen many of the houses from 230,000 up to 320,000 using LVP throughout except for bedrooms. I haven't looked at any of the houses higher than that so I can't say what they are using.
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8 years agoThis flooring is by Earthwerks. Here is a photo of the end of the box with all the information on it.
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