What flooring for an open plan kitchen dining living space?

[Katz]

Kitchen cupboards are walnut and work tops are black.

What floor would you put in to cover the whole space?

Would something like karndean or amtico look ok in the living space with a big rug? is it warm under foot?

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would probably be in the hall too

anyone?

We used a high quality laminate (looks like oak). It looks like proper planks and runs through kitchen, dining and hall area. I am reasonably fussy and hate the cheap laminate look, but this is good and gentle on the eye, given it's such a big area.

Ask a local builder to recommend his supplier and go and take a look in the warehouse/ask advice. Don't go to Homebase/Ikea etc - quality is probably not good enough for such a large area.

We have an open plan living/dining room with an adjoining kitchen through 2 arch ways - all open plan.

The kitchen is white with black granite worktops.

We have chosen solid oak flooring with under floor heating as we wanted more storage space for fitted cupboards rather than use radiators.

I think it all goes quite well.

I have amtico. One of the ones that looks like a tile with the grout lines too.

Think it is called warm stone.

It is warm under foot, no complaints there. It has scratched a bit where I have moved heavy furniture though which is a bit disappointing. But if you are aware of this you could easily avoid it.

oh we bought ours from an online co and got our builder to recommend a fitter.

Yep - have Karndean all though our ground floor (kitchen diner, living room and hall) and am really pleased with it. Ours is the wood effect - laid in planks - and it generally fools people into thinking it's real wood.

Warm under foot and withstands the abuse thrown at it by 2 small children and 2 grown ups and pets. Easy to clean too. HTH.

I think more wood would be too much with the walnut that you already have. I honestly don't know what I would put down though - the black worktops are stumping me. Did you buy the kitchen at a posh showroom - what did they have on the floors?

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Just do a google image search for walnut kitchen with black granite worktops. The majority seem to have a cream/pale look tile with them.

thats good to here about the amtico/kardean flooring. I quite fancy light coloured tile effect ones.

The work tops are changing too just not the cupboards and look good in black and we will be putting black back again. The kitchen floor is currently cream flagstone style tiles but they are cold and not wearing well.

We are extending between the back of the kitchen and the through lounge dinner.

cece - yep thats the look we currently have in the kitchen just wasn't sure about the tiles in the living room.

Well my Amtico 'fake' tiles look like that. You can buy the fake grout lines too so it is quite real looking.

we have karndean in kitchen/dining/conservatory/hall/cloakroom.

it is fab-bombproof, silent, a joy

i wouldnt put it in the lounge though and we like to sit on the floor- it is cold (we have concrete subfloor)

tbh it was the only thing we could find that was guaranteed waterproof and with 3 dc i really wanted something that was impossible to damage

I have travertine tiles through my kitchen/diner/living room. They are cold underfoot but we have underfloor heating. They are fab though because they are kind of mottled so have to be really dirty before it shows up!!

We are putting this down in our kitchen and newly extended dining room
country oak

The planks are up to 3.6 metres long which is nearly as long as my kitchen.

Yes - the fact it's guaranteed waterproof is fantastic - no chance of warping!

Ours is fine in the lounge - we have a big rug down where we sit!

This is what we have - think it's the Matai

We have Pilkington Dorset Red. Works quite well in kitchen/dining room. Am thinking of putting them in the hallway too.

here

Katz- we too have walnut kitchen/black granite, and have stone coloured Italian tiles with underfloor heating- fabulous. It's a big space- 45 sq metres, and have a rug by the 2 sofas (under coffee table).
Tiles are not shiny- easy to clean, and with the heating are wonderful in winter.