Help with vinyl tiles

[Countessfosco]

May consider these
www.aroundthewall.com

Had a new kitchen two years ago and hate, hate the cream ceramic tiles. Always dirty looking and cleaning them none stop. Thought they had more of a fleck but no.

Due to cost can't afford to dig up tiles, so looking a vinyl. Like the quality of what I have seen so far. Amtico etc.

However the ceramic ones look anaemic and horrible and I am afraid I will make the same mistake. Also can't go to dark since have dark worktops and it is a big floor space so will darken the whole room
The wood effect looks better ( used gerflor website which meant I could download a photo of my kitchen and then see each floor)
However with fake wood worktops I think will be too much and I certainly don't love the effect,only less ugly than the ceramic effects.

So, thinking about something completely different as above, maybe the pink or the blue. Worried about the thickness and quality since not as expensive as Harvey Maria etc, and of course worried if I am completely mad.

Any advice?

Bumping for ideas.

I would look at the Amtico wood neutral range or the stone lighter palette colours. Some of these look great on the web site. You will need the fitters to put a leveller on the existing tiles or you will mark the vinyl tiles. The wood or stone ranges have enough variation in colour to avoid looking grubby all the time. I would try and get some actual samples and see what looks best. If you have a darker worktop, I would go with a lighter floor though, just not a plain one and definitely not pink or blue! Do you have modern units or traditional ones?

Thanks mildly, will look again, but very nervous about lighter. My units are modern, white with wood look tops, so cream looks a bit wishy washy.

There are some with quite a lot of character though. They look like real stone. What about an Indian slate colour - terracotta colours with grey/green tones?

I have managed to order some samples from them, which was not possible when I first started looking at this ( am in France) which is fantastic. Anything too dark like slate, looks terrible, way too dark because my worktops are dark and the island is dark wood effect too.

Thanks for your help though Milly, I would not looked at amitco again unless you suggested it because of the lack of samples last time.

We have some of the vinyl tiles you linked to (though we ordered from here which is in the UK so may be useful for you). We had them in a guest bathroom, and they are very cute.

However, they don't seem to be great quality - We have some harvey maria in the kitchen and it is a completely different sort of product. The guys who installed the Zazous ones said they were a pita to install. The self adhesive didn't really want to stick to the ply underneath, but when they added their own, it wouldn't stick to the self-adhesive. :S They got it down, but I'd be worried in a high traffic area.

That said, the Harvey Maria are sooooo expensive. I wish there was something in between but I coudn't find it.

Zazous are a bit shit to lay and don't last by all accounts. I've put gerflor vinyl tiles down and they went down really well and easily and so far (three months in) are doing very well in our high traffic utility and downstairs wc. They do plain tiles as well as textures and they're very reasonably priced. I also found the customer service to be excellent, so much so that we've ordered several times from them now.