Please tell me about marble hallway tiles! 🏠

[OrchidLilly]

We have a Victorian terrace and the entrance way and hall way is currently ‘click and clack’ laminate. It’s been horrendously laid, gaps at the wall, I hate it.

We did some investigating and directly under the laminate appears to be painted floorboards.

We would love to have a simple checkerboard pattern using marble tiles. We saw it on a home renovation programme recently and it looked amazing!

The hallway is an S shape and we’ve found the house is does tend to shift with the seasons slightly, if that changes anything.

Is there anything we should be aware of using marble tiles?

😊

Hopefully bump!

Is the floor completely level? If not you may need to take up the floorboards and lay chipboard type stuff over sister joists (which is a bit of shame). Even then, Victorian houses are wonky so the floor may still creek and bounce a little if the tiles aren't laid directly onto a concrete floor.
Could you paint a checkerboard pattern onto the floorboards? I've seen this done quite effectively

Checkered marble tiles are so beautiful! You may have to get a flooring company round to have a look, they can usually find a way around most issues. But if not neverwakeasleepingbaby’s idea is a great one, if you ever watched Million Dollar Decorators on Netflix, one of the designers on there Mary McDonald does painted floors a lot and they look great.

They are very slippery when wet. Make sure you have a huge inset doormat that everyone has to walk over so the floor stays dry.

LVT like Amtico
might be a good substitute?