Vinyl flooring ideas for kitchen
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Comments (10)I put a high quality, floating floor in my apt kitchen in NYC to help with pet wear and tear. NOT the best option. If one piece needs to be replaced (and with pet accidents it bubbles very easily), you have to undo a whole section because they are interlocked. Also, they just don't look that great, no matter what we paid. So when it came time to make the rest of the apt floor look decent, we switched to vinyl planks from Lowes. Sounds gross, but they're actually amazing looking. Our apt was built in the 1880's, (the original floor was long destroyed and removed before we got it),and I found a dark gunstock in a wider cut that almost matched our neighbor's original floor exactly. You ready for this? 98 cents a sq foot! If one gets damaged you peel it off (with some effort) and put a replacement. Echoflooring is sooo right about batch colors. Get it all at once and mix up the boxes as you lay it. We have a bunch of mixed ones for replacement and haven't used one, not one, but I know we have them. Lowes will recommend their sealer,but we didn't use it. They self stick just fine. One or two spots came up after we were first done and someone on line told us to use a hairdryer to reheat it and lay a book on top overnight. Worked like a dream. Our apt in NY is 800 sq ft and our current tenant is a photographer with two rescue cats and she loves the floor. Even with her keen eye, we had to tell her they were vinyl and how to replace it if she had a pet accident. She was blown away! I will try to post a picture of our NY apt floor for you. To be fair to our tenant the photographer, I took the horrible quality pics w my cell, not her! LOL! Choose wisely for your space and go with your fave, not what everyone says you should do, incl me. And pls do remember the color batch issue echoflooring brought up. Good luck :) Here is a link that might be useful: NYC vinyl plank floor...See MoreAdvice/opinions re: VINYL flooring for new kitchen?
Comments (43)I love seeing all the beautiful vinyl in this thread! When I was starting to plan my new kitchen, I wasn't sure what kind of floor I wanted. We'd had cheap sheet vinyl when I was a kid, and it looked awful, always curling up at the ends. (I think my mom didn't want it glued down - not sure why.) But I was still willing to consider vinyl since I liked its easy-care properties. I also read good things about linoleum in Consumer Reports. But every contractor who came to bid on my job said I should get tile. Every single one (and I interviewed about six of them)! They just thought vinyl wasn't up to the standards of the rest of what I wanted to do in my kitchen - the stone countertops, the tile backsplash. (Though I wasn't quite up to SS appliances yet - I was still talking about keeping my old white refrigerator.) They convinced me. And I'm not sorry - I like the tile I got - but it *is* hard to stand on. (I don't think I really understood what that meant till I actually stood on it!) And I think some of the better vinyls would have looked really good too. So if you want vinyl, go for it! You all rock! :-)...See MoreIdeas/Sources for Vinyl or Linoleum Floors
Comments (7)I used commercial-grade sheet linoleum in my very small bathroom 8 year ago. It's a light beige wood-look pattern called "driftwood" - very neutral. Cleans with wet or dry Swiffers (my knees won't take hand-scrubbing anymore) and is so durable it's used for art galleries. It wasn't cheap, but looks the same as it did when installed....See MoreKitchen Floors - hardwood vs Vinyl plank floor vs Other??
Comments (9)I am not a huge fan of vinyl plank flooring. It feels very fad'y. Ten years from now, it'll be the one thing that lets you date when you did the remodel. Having said that, they do have pretty decent designs these days. They come really close to fooling you into thinking it's the real thing. And while some of the hype seems to be just that, they reportedly do stand up to abuse much better than older man-made materials. The nice thing about real hardwood though is that you can relatively easily refinish it. Or you can pick a material that looks great even when it is distressed. Neither one is really an option with vinyl planks. On the whole, I do agree with you though. The much better flooring material in the kitchen is tile. No need to stress if you spill something. And if you install radiant floor heating, it feels really nice on your feet, too. And if you carry if through the rest of the house, you can use area rugs in select locations. But that's going to be more expensive than putting down LVP. So, it's a bit of "you get what you pay for". On the other hand, if you plan on living in the house for the long run, it might make sense to do things right once, rather than replacing the cheaper flooring every couple of years....See MoreRelated Professionals
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