CHild friendly kitchen floor

[MrsDarcy4092]

Hi all

We're doing up our kitchen and had planned a real stone floor. However we're planning to start ivf soon and if we're lucky and get to have a child we're now not sure a hard stone floor is a good idea but are there any kitchen floors which are child friendly? Could it just br the case that we have a play pen in the kitchen to limit any risk of falls onto the hard floor?

Any tips or suggestions would be lovely please. Thank you

Bump

We have porcelain tiles in the kitchen and hallway and honestly my 3 dc have never been injured by them but they're easy to clean. Carpet burns are far worse ime.

I put rugs down

We have a stone floor and two young DC (one of whom falls over all the time due to medical issues). I don't think a different floor would have made any difference to the usual toddler knocks and bumps. During the baby stage we just used an extra layer under the playmat. TBH there are so many dangers in kitchens that you will have to supervise mobile babies and toddlers whatever flooring you choose!

Personally I would choose tile (i.e. mock stone) rather than real stone but more because of marking/water ingress than because of DC.

Underfloor heating is very child friendly!

Thanks everyone!

Good luck with the ivf!

Thank you so much 😊

One of the last things we did before DC was to take up our lounge carpet and replace with wood floor. My mother really fussed about what would happen if DC fell over on it. Believe me the making a mess stage lasts far longer than the falling over phase. My son still bears the scar of falling onto a hard tiled floor... on holiday in France! But never fell over in the kitchen.

I agree you can get lovely porcelain tiles (e.g Marlborough) that will be easier to maintain than stone. Truly child friendly would be the heavy duty vinyl they have in hospitals but that may not be the look you want.

Good luck too

We have textured ceramic tiles. Neither child has jnjured themself falling into the flooring, but they are hell to get clean.

Stone floors can be really slippery! Ours is, especially with slippers and socks.

When we get our new kitchen, we are switching to wood floor.

We have had 2 kitchens since we have had kids and both have had porcelain tiles, fab because they are easy to clean don't scratch when they drag cars/chairs/bikes etc across them. Yes they are hard but we've never had a problem with them hurting themselves mind you my 1yo is currently trying his hardest as he finds his feet.

You can't pad the planet. Think wipe clean and tough. Children fall, howl then forget.

A few bumps and bruises helps children learn and motivates them not to fall over. Overprotective environments are not necessarily in their best interests.
Good luck.