Has anyone regretted getting a white kitchen floor? Has anyone regretted anything they chose for their kitchen actually?

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Basically i can't chose what i want in my kitchen and it's driving me insane!

I think i've chosen a quartz worktop (calacatta with a thin additional vein of copper in it) and i think i've chosen a magnet cabinet style (tatton) but for life of me i don't know what colour to chose for the floor and to be honest can't chose the colour of the cabinets either!

If i go with a white floor to echo the quartz will i regret it? At least white/white means the cabinet colour will be easier to chose? No?

Heeeeeelp

The thing is we all have favourite colour pallets and colour combinations so it's easy to agonise for ages only to end up with something we've done before.

I must admit - the colours i've chosen for my kitchen (finally), the cashmere and oak and pale bricks - it's very similar to what i've done in the living room Our chimney breast is definitely on the cashmerey side and there's the oak floor and the pale bricks in the fireplace ..... eeek.

It will be fine! Yours will be a 'theme,' rather than pretty much identical, which is what mine would be if I went with kitchen 3. 😆

I had a beautiful large porcelain kitchen floor and it was always full of bits and looked not clean no matter how much I mopped it. Was also shiny and hard to get looking good without buffing it on hands and knees, water marks always showed. And life's too short to do that so now have a cream/beige matt fake York stone looking floor which I like the look of less but is waaaay easier.

Hahah! Apologies didn't RTFT and thought you were still all chatting about white tiles floors! Am v jealous of the gorgeous new kitchen plans - now I've read the whole thing. Am about Frenchic paint mine while I save for a lovely new shiny one. So cheers for the lovely ideas for when I can Chuck mine in a skip and good luck with the installations

@setthecontrols, would you be happy to post a picture of your floor please?
I'd love a wood/effect floor but DH would prefer tiles. Wood effect tiles, sound ideal! 😆

@cissyandbessy it's fine, the thread has branched out but some of us are still pondering floors.

@cissyandbessy yes, come on in :)

Loving the sound of french chic paint! What colour are you doing?

deVOL charge a fortune for the shabby chic look. I have one of their catalogues! i had to discuss our plans over the phone with a deVOL rep before they would post it to me I received 2. One of style ideas and one for set pieces and prices ect. Both are so lovely they are basically coffee table books and DDs and i leaf through them every now and again to remind ourselves of what we can't afford They have a pottery section. I could afford a bowl. Then i would have at least one deVOL thing in my kitchen ...

We are underway again. Water softener and Quooker ordered, builder coming round Tues to finalise quotes and timings.

Horsemad
Here you go..

Tap on it and it's much better

Oh my goodness @setthecontrols, I LOVE that! Looks brilliant. Thanks for posting. 🙂

Horsemad
Pleasure! We're really pleased with it. Planks are 90cm long.

Just bumping my own thread

Hows it all going?

All systems go here now. Units paid for and confirmed, range cooker paid for and confirmed, start date agreed with builder, flooring person booked in to quote next week, just need to order a sink and change the dates for the worktops then I'm done for the week. Phew!

Anyone else got any progress to report?

No. We can't do anything until this steel comes to hold up the upstairs. Once that's in we can knock down the rest of a dividing wall and book the electrician.

Yours sounds wildly exciting though EversoDelighted. So i will live through you for a bit What are you doing about old kitchen out before new one in? Are the fitters taking the old away?

Yes, they are a licensed waste carrier so they can take it. We are going to keep the old worktop as a temporary one till the quartz gets fitted though. Everything can come in and go out through the back door so not too disruptive but we can't have the units delivered until they are ready to start fitting as we don't have a garage or anywhere else to put them.

We don't have any structural work to do, but the room is going to be gutted and a new ceiling put in (the old one is trashed from various changes of light fittings and a historic water leak). Any idea how till long your steel is delivered?

It's too late for the OP but we have black, shiny ceramic tiles in our kitchen and they are a nightmare to keep clean looking. You can't just mop them, you have to buff and shine them dry every time or they dry with watermarks and smears that make them look filthy even though they aren't.

A friend didn't realise this and had a similar floor fitted because mine always looks so nice. It was only after it was fitted she realised how much effort it is to keep it looking that way.

Our holiday home has wood effect vinyl tiles through the kitchen and downstairs halls. . They look like real wood but are warm and soft underfoot and look great with just a quick vacuum and steam clean.

DH is muttering about ringing them. They're making it, bringing it in and welding it in place for £400 so a really good price. Saves us having to buy a welder and DH trying to do it.

When will it come? Who knows

@Confusedandshaken so many have echoed what you've said about jet black. I am well and truly put off white and black :)

@EversoDelighted would you mind sharing further details of your water softener? We live in a really hard water area, so I'm considering one - through really I'd like a full-on plumbed water filtration system... but I just can't get my head around how that would actually fit together with everything else

We have very pale grey flooring in the bathrooms and kitchen, it's flecked with white. It airways looks clean. My mum has an old fashioned white patterned lino that also always looks clean. We sweep often, mop about weekly, and clean up spills when they happen.

Should have said these are both matt.

@HBGKC it's this one (the smaller one). Our builder recommended it, its coming from the local plumbing warehouse. There's a company called Harveys who seem to have a virtual monopoly over them, the chap in the showroom said the Harveys ones use a lot more salt (no real way of verifying that TBH). Harveys do a buy now pay later full installation job, we didn't want to add yet another tradesperson into the kitchen so we decided to go with the Great Water one and get the builder/plumber to fit it, it will work out cheaper than Harveys.

We are putting in a Quooker hot water tap too - those have filter and descaling options too but we actually like the taste of our hard water so not bothering with that.

greatwater.co.uk/water-softeners

Thanks for that, @EversoDelighted, it's really helpful. I shall have a good look at those. Hope it works well for you!

It is all quite confusing. People I know who have had Harveys ones have been happy with them but that has been adding them to an existing kitchen, as we are doing the whole thing its easier to get our builder/plumber doing it all at the same time.

THURSDAY!!!

The vertical steel is coming on Thursday morning. Something happening at last :)