picking flooring transition in open concept kitchen
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Comments (4)Here's the deal....a PERMANENT floor (glue down, nail down, mortar in place, etc) will give you the look you want. That means concrete, stone, tile, marmoleum (sheet), vinyl (sheet), vinyl planks (glue down), vinyl tile (glue down), cork (glue down), carpet, wood (glue down or nail in place) will do the trick. A FLOATING floor is the floor that must have transitions. You have stated that you do not want to glue anything down...which is where your issue is coming from. And to be clear, only a SMALL mount of engineered hardwoods are 'click' together. The rest are glued at the edges (but I digress). So the situation is thus: you WANT a continuous floor. You WANT to float a floor. You do NOT want transitions. Like Sesame street songs says, "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong.' There are VERY FEW floating floor options that can have runs GREATER than 40 ft. Very, very very few. Almost everything else MUST HAVE transitions around the 30ft mark. So you have a choice to make: do a permanent floor (glue down wood) or you float and LIVE with the transitions that are required. The next decision is: do you keep a flooring contractor who thinks engineered hardwoods always 'click' together?...See MoreAny ideas for this open concept kitchen floor problem??
Comments (8)I had exactly the same problem. I do not know how it is done for you, but we have two layers of subfloor and, when we will renovate the kitchen in a couple years, we will fix the subfloor and put either wood or tile that will be flush with the rest of the floor.. We have a transition between the two levels, so it was not as weird as it look on your picture. Sorry for the mess, but it was just after we moved in. May be you can do something like that....See MoreOpen concept dining/ living room and kitchen with different flooring
Comments (1)Probably not a good idea. All floors should match...See MoreOpen concept floor transition. What to do?
Comments (5)It's not going to look right if you put a different kind of tile next to what you already have, and it doesn't sound like you even like what you have very much. It's more common these days to have the same flooring throughout the first floor at least. Usually that's wood, but if you're in a hot climate tile is frequently used. The wood doesn't look right next to the tile either, but if it were a darker brown (the same brown as is in the tile) it would work. Since you don't like wood in your kitchen, I don't know what to tell you. If you put the same tile in the kitchen with black cabinets that will make for a very dark kitchen. Whether that's a problem or not is up to you. How much natural and artificial light will you have in the space? If you don't really like the existing tile but it's not in the budget to replace it right now (but you would be able to replace it in a year or two), put whatever you want in the kitchen, buy enough for the whole area and have it laid in the area outside the kitchen later....See MoreRelated Professionals
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