Kitchen flooring

[Babyiwantabump]

Currently designing my kitchen and I am totally stumped by what floor to get - most images now show wooden flooring- which I love ! But I am also about to replace the flooring through the ground floor and so now don’t know whether to have wood throughout or still have a different flooring in the kitchen?

What have you done in your kitchen?

Thanks in advance!

We used polished porcelain because it cleans up easily, it’s in the utility, kitchen, diner, entrance hall and downstairs loo. Tile up stands in the utility & loo instead of skirting boards.

One tiles damaged but dh dropped an un-opened bottle of wine on it but we have a spare.

It’s really easy to care for but you need slippers in the winter with a non slip sole.

I think it makes an area look bigger with the same floor but it’s what you want to pay.

Is it slippy?

Just worried about my two youngest careering through the kitchen 😂.

Is the kitchen a separate room? I like wood, though in my kitchen now I have vinyl tiles. I laid wood but it it looked totally wrong against the colour of the kitchen so changed it (flooring guy not happy). My friend has white porcelain tiles and regrets it as she says it shows every spec of dirt. I had slate tiles in my other house with underfloor heating - loved it but wouldn’t have it without the heating.

Look at luxury vinyl tiles

Hard wearing long lasting and can take water

We did ours from eBay overstock plus local fitter £700 for 24 sq mt

It was slippy the first night, it doesn’t feel slippy now.

We have wood effect Karndean which has been very easy to care for and looks as good as it did when we put it down. Not sure I’d want it all through downstairs though.
I don’t think I would go for engineered real wood in a wet area but lots of people do.

We have wood look LVT. Very pleased with it. Friends have engineered wood and have had no end of problems with it.

We are putting down wood look porcelain tiles. Personally I don’t think wood is hard wearing enough for a kitchen with small children unless you are happy to live with lots of dents and scratches. On the other hand I wouldn’t do tiles without under floor heating as they are freezing in winter. Maybe LVT if you’re not going to have underfloor r heating?

Another recommendation for LVT. I've run it through my entire downstairs and it's a dream to clean, and is really hard wearing.

I think it depends on the value of the house. I wouldn’t expect a £2m house to have Vinyl flooring everywhere. I would expect a high end finish. If it’s £200k, that’s different.

I think tiles are great but underfloor heating is best with them. I wouldn’t have polished though. We have ones that are limestone look alike and no one knows the difference. Stone is difficult to maintain. Wood can be problematic in terms of stains and maintaining the finish.

We have wood effect LVT. It's very convincing and nice to walk on. We're getting it fitted throughout the ground floor to match.

We have lvt in our kitchen diner. Easy to clean and still looks good. Though I regret going for something that is as dark as it is.

I wish we had gone for wood with tiles or mats in the heaviest duty areas in front of the sink and cooker.

I should add we don't have kids. My mum had wood in her kitchen and the grandchildren really damaged it.

I have wood
Strangely it never occurred to me to match it up with the other wood floors in the house! But it's a similar shade, so I does match up. Unless the kitchen flows through, I would say you can use a different floor to elsewhere

There's a pattern in the hall and the other rooms are the same

LVT is a high end finish. Sheet vinyl not so much.

We have hard wood floors in part of the house, but they are very very worn now and they will be replaced with porcelain when we build. Personally I don’t get vinyl, expensive or not, makes me think of 70’s lino style tiles.

If you could afford to fit wood throughout the whole downstairs then I'm sure it would look lovely and uniform. I also quite like traditional looking slate and it's hardwearing

Hmmm

Kitchen is a separate room but it is at the end of the entrance hallway so you can look through to the kitchen from the front door which is why I was thinking the same throughout?

And I don’t really like door bars on the floor - don’t know why but they irritate me!

Will have a look at LVT

Is that like thick Lino though?

Am totally taking kitchen right back to bare walls and flooring so could have underfloor heating fitted - what happens if there is a problem with it though? Would the whole floor have to come back up again? Although it would be nice to get rid of the radiator so I could have more cabinets along that wall.

Designing a kitchen is a nightmare - have changed my mind about so much !!

You could match it up a bit like this?

Rather than door bar

polished porcelain is lethally slippy can confirm awful with toddlers. looks nice but also a jar of coconut oil bounced off it leaving a nice chunk in dust, jar in tact mind you

Ooh that’s an idea tomboy...