I'm curious about the InHaus Sono product as well...we wanted Coretec but I'm curious about the InHaus Sono with the ceramic core. We have a lot of sun coming through the back of our house and we don't want a floor that fades or shifts in the heat. We frequently have hurricanes as well and end up with the power out and tons of heat and humidity in the house. Three kids and three dogs take a toll, too. If anyone has other suggestions on this post I'd love to hear them and photos are great, too!

Thank you all for your suggestions! I am loving the earthy slate tiles. The parquet flooring is beautiful, but somehow it reminds me too much of the hardwood covering the rest of our home (very thin boards, maybe?), not sure if I'm making any sense at all anymore! I'm hoping to install the LVT myself after much more research, but I wonder how you'd go about peicing together those those color variant slate tiles without it looking a mess... hmm!

Sorry but vinyl does not receive under pad. It is different from laminate. If it were me I would take the vinyl back and purchase 12mm laminate and 6mm cork underlay. Problem fixed. The 12mm = 1/2" + 6mm = 1/4" = 1 8mm = 3/4" . At this point you can use a regular transition strip.

flooring experience started-our house is 36 yeas old and we are seniors - we do want to update but finding it a challenge when we are not starting from scratch and everything seems to snowball Our initial plan was to add flooring, countertop and paint laundry and powder room which are off of family room. Then my husband suggested doing family room with vinyl while were working on that floor so challenge one coming in the front door we see the family room straight ahead, the living room dining room on the left, the rug on the stairs going to bedrooms and the laminate in the hallway kitchen I had chosen lighter carpet in Lr, Dr, Fr and hallway to blend with hallway and to keep it bright. Down the stairs to the left is the laundry, and family room where we wanted to replace floor toilet and countertop. I want to paint the laundry and powder room white. We will keep the dark vanity and replace the top with a white granite with a dark vein running through it, black tap and a new black light. so the challenge in choosing the floor (I do love those patterned tiles) is to find something that would blend with vinyl flooring for family room and be the same in the living room dining room . This flooring would be against tiles meeting the steps to family room, and would be same as living dining floor meeting the hallway which I think would work depending on color but next dilemma is what to do with carpeted steps(needs replacing as well) REPEATED PHOTO and we need carpet there as my husband has foot drop and slips on floors I'm starting to think I need to move lol but I'm patient enough with your amazing guidance to work through this I like that soft picture that you showed above with the white railing Thank you so much for all your ideas-I can move along once we get flooring for family room and laundry powder