Jill Coopersmith flash forward two years. Were your floors installed? How do you like them. I am now going through the same process with picking floors. I want to put the same flooring throughout my house (except bathrooms). I'm on a slab so, in Georgia that means no solid hardwoods on the main floor so, that's out, unfortunately. Kitchen, powder room and laundry areas make me nervous about engineered hardwood. The retailers are really pushing LVP ovr laminate but i havent found a laminate that has more than 8 repeats. Doing a whole house with 8 repeats (the photo image) makes me nervous. Any thoughts?

I originall installed the floor myself. there is nothing wrong with the installation but with the product itself. The first time around when some planks were delaminating i called my dealer and they came and replaced that section professionally. After a while more planks delaminated, so they came another time and redid another whole room. Now I discovered another plank that is peeling off. Either it’s a crappy product or they sold me a bad batch.

We installed 2600 sf of Happy Feet Pinnacle LVP in our new build and am very happy with it. i had read through this group many times prior but decided with grown kids it was more important to us to have a matte look and low maintenance than risk wearing out our socks. I definitely prefer the feel of natural wood under bare feet but this LVP is not wearing out our socks or our bare feet. So far it feels like a great decision. interesting anecdotal observation - when in our old house, which had hardwood throughout, when we laid out various LVP samples and left them there for a week, our dog stated laying on the Happy Feet sample section. Never the other samples. 🤔

This doesn't answer the prior person's question about warm brushed oak as I'm the poster that went with warm ash, but loved the updated that the OP made about the usage. We had a dog (small, elderly that has now passed) and a very active toddler. As in very actively throwing food on the ground, coloring the floor, and throwing wooden balls. The karndean floors have held up SO well and we are so glad we didn't go with real wood that would be seriously stressing me out. We live in a 3 bedroom condo and it covers all of our common areas and have zero regrets. Also, we had to have transitions matched, it wasn't easy as I'm picky, but for the warm ash, the real wood oak transitions worked with a lighter stain (might be similar for stairs). Our warm ash has more contrasts than the warm brushed oak did, I feel. In the sunlight, can't tell, in the yellower evening light, can tell a bit - doesn't bother me.