Hate my new flooring which costs me £3.5k

[freesoul12]

I dont know what I want from this post . I chose the flooring from sample and now its laid in 70 percent of the floor. It looks fine at night with lights on but looks greenish tone in the morning. I am so upset with myself not making the right choice . it is LVT. Fitter is coming on Monday to finish the job. Still got £1700 flooring left in garage which can be returned.
I am thinking of just cut losses and return the rest of it then I thought I ll keep it for couple of years and then change it. I cant make a choice and on top of it have not discussed with hubby yet . please help me how can i make a decision as I am all over the place with my emotions.

LVT is luxury vinyl tile but it is mostly planks like laminate but it has a vinyl top. Basically vinyl you can lay yourself with a click lock system. Comes with different backings ie a more solid core that you can lay over existing tile with grout lines. We have it in the children's bathroom as it is life proof.

I know this is too late now but we always order a sacrifice box of laminate or LVT rather than a whole floor. That way you can lay out 6 planks etc in situ and see if you like it before buying the whole lot.

The green tinge could be made worse by the wall colour. I would start with changing the wall colour which you are intending to do anyway and see if that makes any difference.

I think the comments about paint colours are right. It's gutting when you make an expensive decision and don't like the result but with the right colour paint n the walls and a completed floor you'll probably get used to it. All the best.

Yes, I think the perceived green tinge will be made worse by magnolia walls. Try some paint samples (really big patches that start at floor level) and find one that looks better with it, then find an accent colour that minimises any green and accessorise with that. It bet it won’t look the same after that. I can’t see even the tiniest hint of green in the photo.

I think like PP you need to adjust what is near it. I had brown quarry tiles put in my utitily. I had chosen them for fitting with the smoked oak flooring in the rest of downstairs. Until the oak flooring went down the tiles looked awful, awful, awful. Every builder worked on the house took a second glance and you could see the "WTF that looks awful" expression.

As soon as the oak flooring went down it was fine. Lovely. Exactly matched as I had planned.

Brilliant white walls will make a massive difference to the look.

Where’s the pic with the green tinge?

@JaninaDuszejko

Thanks Cheeeesecake, that's the only photo I can see.

I think that it would be incredibly wasteful and bad for the environment to throw away so much plastic (for the person who was asking LVT=luxury vinyl tiles. Expensive vinyl basically). Once the floor is finished and the furniture is in and you get used to it you will forget about the green tinge. Changing the wall colour may help anyway which would be a cheaper and less harmful change.

Agree with this entirely. Flooring is a bastard to get right as small samples are never really true and colour works differently en masse, but you can do wonders by changing the wall colour to neutralise any green tinge (which I can’t see), and use rugs to cover big areas. But ripping out new flooring and installing more is bordering on criminal: what’s done is done. Learn to love or ignore the floor, but please don’t rip it out - which impacts landfill but also the resource and energy costs in making more flooring to replace it.

I think it looks lovely, can’t see any green. However, if you hate it, you hate it. I hate our hallway laminate. It looks fine in the kitchen but so drab and grey in the hallway. If we decide to stay in the house longer term I want to change it (it’s been down a year and I still hate it!)

Mine looked bright orange after installation and I felt the same as you. Once the furniture was back in and rugs on the floors etc- I couldn’t see that orange tinge. The wood will reflect the colours in the room around it so putting the furniture back in will make that green less noticeable (though I honestly couldn’t see any green in the pic you posted, it looks lovely).

Ok I can see it on the app, can’t see anything green.

I can’t see any green. Do you have a lot of trees outside? They can cast a green hue to indoor colours. I think it looks great! Just get it laid & change wall colours.

Any major change will shake you up. I'm the kind of person who will agonise over floors/cabinets/paint colours, spend months choosing one, and then will absolutely hate it no matter what once it's in the house. The feeling lasts for a week tops and then I almost always love it. At the very least, you'll get used to it. I wouldn't panic yet.

No I think it's fine!

No flooring choice ever looks how you imagined it and you've probably pictured something completely different.

Get it down, give it a few weeks, treat yourself to a nice rug and you'll forget you ever disliked it.

Please don't paint your brand new laminate floor!

Echoing others and saying that you need to get rid of the magnolia walls. The flooring looks lovely in the photos but I can't help feeling that creamy colour walls are making the floor look a weird greeny colour in comparison.

Just had Karndene fitted in the hall,took 2 men 2 days with 2 layers of marine ply under Beautiful but one piece is a darker shade laid right in the centre and looks wrong.We were told than the colours light oak would differ.Just going to live with it as would be impossible to remove without destroying it.Maybe after a while you will learn to live with it just annoying when you have spent so much.

I think that looks great, OP.

Would adding some colour around it ..cushions etc would that colour then reflect ???

Depends on cost.
I had my bathroom tiles laid and hate the colour so much I asked the builders to take them out and replace them with blue ones.
It makes a massive difference - the difference beteeen wading slushing into a pile of mushrooms and wading into the sea
The builders trashed my floor when they laid it and I didn’t insist they fix it as they guilted me out. Three years on nd I look at it every day and all the stains and marks and wish I’d spent the money myself rectifying it
These things can really lodgr in your head and bug you!

The one thing no one has mentioned is lighting. You say in the morning it looks green. What about the rest of the day??

Can you change your lights? Have you got a warm white or the horrible white light bulbs?

@theyhavenothingbuttheaudacity

Can't see a green tinge but anyway why was it so expensive? We paid about 500 for the whole house

it's waterproof and scratch resistant and its for about 80 square metre

I was about to come on and mention lighting. A new bulb can totally change the colour of a room.

@Cheeeesecake

Photo taken from mumsnet app

Thank you for sharing

I think it's lovely and I don't see any green tinge on the photo.

Hi OP, we have LVT in 4 rooms that's been down 22 years and is still fantastic. So much so that the ensuite was changed 2 years ago and needed to be redone, and it still matches the bedroom exactly. I love the special effects created with borders, grouting strips etc. We have 'tiles' and the wood look. They say don't steam clean but it hasn't affected ours at all. We had a flood under the bath, and the tiles started to lift (this alerted us to flood), I thought it was ruined but when the floor dried, it returned to normal. It was very expensive 22 years ago but you can probably tell I love it. I think your's will seem entirely different when your room is put together.

I don't mean this in a snarky way but it might help if you file this under the banner of first world problems I have that remind me of how lucky I am