What colour is the dirt on your kitchen floor?

[thelegohooverer]

Or rather, what colour floor best hides dirt?
And what colours/finishes should a slattern like myself avoid?

i have black slate lvt and it was a mistake, you can hover and mop it 3 times a day and within 1/2 hour there are bits on it. Looks great for about 25 minutes in a house with 2 fulltime workers and a slothlike teen

Get mottled beige / greige 👌 ours is filthy from toddler and you never see it till you've stepped on a cheerio. (I sweep 3 times a day, mop every other day, and wipe under the toddler chair every evening. He's just very efficient at dirtying.)

I have a mottled beige too, washed, steamed regularly; yet after I painted the kitchen, I sugar soaped and wire brush scrubbed it tile by tile like never, it was shocking. It has a textured finish however, so if you are a slattern, get smooth, shiny and light coloured.

i have yorkshire stone flags - could go weeks between mops and you wouldn't know

We have pale porcelain - have had it for 10 years - and it has been a mistake since week 1. I was talked into it by an interiors person when I was child and pet free. It never looks clean for more than three minutes and I hate it. Something dark and mottled would be my choice if i had the budget to replace.

Brown, thanks to my filthy pets. The living room floor never looks that dirty, and I probably haven't mopped it for a year . Wood is certainly the best concealer of grot and grime.

Beige/ grey, riven, mock stone. Already in the house when we bought it. It’s very forgiving and just needs a wipe, but as pp has said every so often it gets a good scrub to clean the indents. Then it becomes a lighter shade!
I’m very careful as there’s electric underfloor heating.
We’re laying a grey patterned repro Victorian tile in our hall, which we think won’t show dirty footprints. It’s smooth so easy to wipe over.

We have mottled beige travertine. 15 years or so, it is quite forgiving but would be better if it had a completely smooth / polished finish. The dining half of the room is oak which is much more forgiving. We previously had terracotta , and continue to do so in our weekend house, it needs more up keep .

Definitely avoid the white, textured tiles that I have in my bathroom. They are disgusting within a day of being mopped, even the mop water collects in the fine grooves and makes them look black 🤮

I have grey wooden laminate woody stuff and I can get away with alooooot before I look slovenly

Pale grey karndean mock stone tiles. It’s pretty good at looking clean.
We had black slate before (from previous owners) and I spent nearly 10 years hating it.
It was constantly dirty and the uneven surface made it a pain to sweep.

Karndean flooring in a light brownish wooden effect
I thinks it called rustic

Dogs kids mud gardens, quick sweep haven't mopped for at least a month
Slattern 🤣

I have terra cotta tiles (they were definitely NOT my choice) and they never look clean because the grouting's gone dark and the tiles have chipped over the years. I hate them.

It’s oak, honestly you don’t really see the dirt.

We've got Amtico in a grey/beige wood effect. Dirt does not show up. Worst mistake I ever made, in a previous house, was to have funky lino in my bathroom. It was white with jazzy colours - looked cool, showed every speck of dust/towel fluff/scuffs!

We have white Matt tiles on some of it and they show ALL the dirt - don't do it!

Engineered oak planks. They’re extremely forgiving. I sweep/vacuum when I see crumbs etc around the food prep/dining area but otherwise I only give it a once over with the steam cleaner a couple of times a year 🤷‍♀️

I'd echo the PP who has pale grey woos effect laminate. It's extremely forgiving.

Wood effect vinyl, an oak type Its very forgiving. I can forget to mop for a week and not notice.

Don’t get shiny white. What was I thinking?

We had charcoal Karen dean with a white motley effect in previous house....lots of traffic, mopped it once a week or so....

Our oak only shows very muddy paw prints. Apart from that I only mop it because I feel I should not because it looks dirty.

I have some light grey 60x60 tiles from tile giant in our kitchen/family room. They have a slight sheen as they are the ones suitable for a wet room. I had visions of the kids running and slipping over on shinny tiles. Unless I drop something like pasta sauce/gravy etc, which you would expect to see and just gets spot wiped, general dirt doesn't seem to show. I just sweep daily and use a spray mop maybe once a week. It gets a proper clean, grout scrubbed and use of traditional mop and bucket probably every 6 weeks. I will admit they do look a little lighter after a proper clean.

We've got dark grey stone which is perfect for camouflaging the grime.

@Hopeandglory

i have black slate lvt and it was a mistake, you can hover and mop it 3 times a day and within 1/2 hour there are bits on it. Looks great for about 25 minutes in a house with 2 fulltime workers and a slothlike teen

I have the same.

Grey engineered wood. It's great. I rarely mop. I don't have little children so it's only people's feet that touch the floor. It gets swept every otgrr day, hoovered once a week. I sponge off obvious spillage stains but it never looks dirty.