Flooring ideas and pictures please

[Mellowyellow222]

I am about to extend my kitchen and as part of the project I need new flooring for the ground floor of my house. It’s not huge - about 80 m sq. this is hall, sitting room, and the new kitchen/living/ diner space plus a utility room and downstairs loo.

my budget isn’t huge either - about £5k.

I love wooden floors - and would like herringbone style. But I want something durable - I am worried about wooden flooring in the kitchen, utility and wc.

I would love to see pictures of peoples flooring with an idea of the cost.

thank you

We have karndean in the living room and I love it but it’s not cheap and I remember I liked the herringbone one but it was dearest of the lot so that got binned off! We just have vinyl in our kitchen and it’s great so worth looking at if your budget doesn’t stretch. There are some really great quality ones out there and the fitting cost is a fraction of flooring.

LVT is worth looking at.

Sorry totally misread your post-thought you were looking for flooring for your kitchen only and the £5k was including doing your kitchen! Really should pay attention!

we were about £3500 I think for the karndean and that’s a living room/dining room in a new build…sorry I’ve no idea how many square m it was!

We have cork in the utility and cloakroom, the natural looking type rather than the reconstituted style from the 70s. It's proved to be very good, I'd use it again.

Thanks - will look up karndean.

£5k is what I have pencilled in for flooring budget. Total project in £90k. £60k building work, £20k kitchen, £5k utility room and £5k flooring.

i am not sure if £5k will be enough for flooring - but the build is costing a lot more than originally planned so I am trying to squeeze other things!!

I would never had though of cork. We had cork growing up - must have a look and see what it is like now😊

I think you’ll definitely need more for flooring but you could get a really nice kitchen for less.

I was worried my flooring budget was too low! I might try to save a bit on the kitchen and utility for your to up the flooring budget.

everything. Is so expensive! At this rate I will have spent £100k on a kitchen extension!

Let us critique your kitchen spend!

😂. Please do!

kitchen will be L shaped - about 5m by 3m with a kitchen island. I already have new dishwasher and new integrated fridge freezer. Want built in oven and built in combo oven microwave. And Belfast sink. Maybe boiling water tap. Would love quartz worktops, and a larder cupboard. Also a wine fridge I. The island.

utility room is long and narrow - about 5m long.

was thinking £25k tops for both

I have wood effect porcelain tiles laid in a herringbone pattern - I love them! But all the cuts make it an arse to keep clean

Sorry, to add that we paid about £5k for 80sqm- ish. You need to add on about 20% wastage for herringbone, rather than 10-15%.

@FfeminyddCymraeg can I ask what is cost to get them laid? I would live tiles - but I worry about chips and having to redo the grouting

You can get LVT tiles affect look ace.

Real tiles, fuckers break EVERYTHING ever dropped on them plus they are cold and slippy when wet.

With kitchens it's often the internal extra bits that add the £. Internal corner pull outs thing (don't bother) drawers instead of cupboards etc.

You could always get slim laminate and replace with quartz in the future?

We have herringbone Karndean throughout lounge, utility, hall and downstairs bathroom. Fitted in May. It was about 60sqm and came in at £4k incl fitting. We love it.

Kitchen, not lounge!

I was thinking if that with the quartz. Certainly won’t be going with quartz in the utility room. Can keep that pretty basic.

will look up ltv. When I started out I thought I could have the best of the best with a top budget of £90k for the project - I now realise I was completely unrealistic 😂

That is gorgeous - I love it. And I might be able to stretch to it if I add to the flooring budget a little

You can also to LTV in herringbone.

Sadly DH hates herringbone

We're just in the middle of putting Karndean down in the exact same rooms as you - kitchen/diner newly extended, utility, downstairs loo, hall and sitting room and it's costing exactly £5K so it is doable. I prefer the planks to herringbone so that's what we've gone with.

That calls for a classic LTB😂😂

DH "It reminds me of something..."

Me "Erm school halls?"

DH "yes that would be it"

Worse of all we live in a 1960 house 😭😭😭😭

Came on to say LVT, specifically Karndean and seems I'm about 28th poster to recommend it!
It's durable, doesn't warp like wood, can tolerate moisture and water unlike wood. Warmer than tiles (we had tiles in our old house kitchen/dining room and I would almost cry at how cold it was underfoot in winter) and you won't break anything which drops on the floor. Easy to clean and care for.

I did not give DH the choice but as soon as the fitter started laying the planks in formations, he could see why I liked it!

I have wooden herringbone and it looks fab .. it's a few years old now!