Kitchen floors - what's on yours??

[Mellin]

I'm hoping there are lots of designer kitchen Mumsnetters out there who might be able to give me some advice.

We're planning on renovation our kitchen later in the year.

I'm trying to decide what to have on the floor. Kitchen suite is going to be white gloss, modern. Corian or wood worktop.

What's on your floor, and why is/isn't it a good choice??

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Similar to yp here - mine are a good colour which doesn't show the dirt. Do regret not getting underfloor heating for wintertime though.

We have rubber tiles, from here. They are terrific - much warmer than the stone stuff we had before, easy to clean and stuff bounces rather than breaks when you drop it. We went for a fairly untextured finish in dark grey and it does show every speck of dirt and dust, so not ideal from that point of view (though am a bit at the thought of how filthy our floor must have been before when I wasn't sweeping it three times a day). You can choose any colour you want - in my dream house, the playroom will have purple rubber. I am a lover of rubber.

What YP an GM said. I too wish I'd gone for underfloor heatnig
but love the big tiles

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Terracotta tiles - as YP says, lovely and cool in the summer. However ours were a really bad choice because they're kind of randomly textured, with lots of little indentations in, which then fill up with dirt. I'm currently intermittently to be found with our electric toothbrush scrubbing them (mad, I know, but it works).

We have laminate which we hate.
Are just in the process of changing to travertine stone tiles ,with underfloor heating .
we bought our underfloor heating off a tile shop which is local to us ,but found that and the tiles on ebay .
It worked out much cheaper i.e.
tiles ,shop price £1400, paid £596.50
heating ,warm up price £1200, paid £299
All in all this means we can have it all done for less than the tiles should have cost us.

Tiles. Came with the house, not our choice. Hopeless for us as we are all so clumsy. Everything we drop smashes into hundreds of pieces and the bits fly everywhere (and chip the tiles in the process).

I'd go for rubber if I was redoing my kitchen.

slate tiles - big 'uns. we love them and they don't seem to be cold to walk on either which was a nice surprise

sheet vinyl

v cheap, looks ok, comfy, warm, things don't break if dropped

Reclaimed terracotta. Wonderful but wouldn't work with a modern kitchen.

a few handfulls of cat biscuits that ds2 (23mths)decided to feed the cat with and a massive oile of washing that i need to do but im on here.

oh, you mean like tiles?? good old lino i have, decided against the slate type tiles as in my friends house they were a bit rough and her ds kept catching his feet on them.

Artic white granite tiles. They're fab, although it's a pain if you drop a glass on them.

terracotta - is good but, would have been better with someone more experienced of laying handmade stone (not all same thickness etc) so is a bit uneven. Also, washing powder strips the colour which is a big disaster !

we have quarry tiles, they're crap but as we had the kitchen slightly extended it was easier/cheaper to just use the same materials as teh previous owner

i'd go for the dalsouple rubber if i had the money

I had rubber in my old kitchen. Veyr nice and tactile but don't get black as it shows up all the dirt!

oh if we're including things we would like on our floors, may I mention Harvey Maria

also cork (which is renewable, sustainable etc as well as being comfy, warm and quiet) from Wicanders

Large, fake slate tiles - think they are really hardboard or something. Here when me moved in. I quite like them actually, they look pretty convincing ( as modern slate not the lovely old wobbly stuff)
Kitchen is white.

Looks lovely!

Whiteish tiles, looks good when clean, but they show the dirt so quickly. Have underfloor heating. Have rubber in bathroom.

My tiles are white and I like that as I can see and wipe up dirt patches as they come up. Black floor was a nightmare as it showed every speck of dust!

Thanks for all the speedy responses.

We have laminate at the moment. I hate the look of it (very tatty now) but LOVE how easy it is to clean.

A practical question for those with tiles - does lots of dust/crumbs get caught in the grout?

flossie64 - why did you chose travertine over other natural stone (marble, limestone)?

Right, am off to look at the rubber tile website now.

They don't in mine but I have a dustbuster for emergencies!

We chose travertine because it has an uneven colouring so it will not show the dirt too badly aand also I could get a smooth finish that is not shiny/polished.
It took a lot of deciding.
If you want the name of the places I bought from I can let you have them . I think if you go natural /tiles underfloor heating is almost essential . Unless you like you feey freezing of course

We've got large 'fake' textured stone tiles - not sure exactly what they are made of but they feel ceramic-y iyswim. Quite hard but not as hard as real stone would be.

Terracotta-ish in overall colour, kind of mottled effect and hides dirt brilliantly! (I'm such a slut that there's no way I could have a white floor.)

The grout lines aren't very deep so the crumbs don't tend to get stuck there, they gravitate to the edges of the floor where they are easily hoovered up. The grout is of course black (don't know if it started out that way) and magically seems to absorb all manner of stuff Would recommend them.

Travertine in free lengths (eg varying widths but same height, goes along the room in lines, eg not random flagstone), looks lovely and v classy. Cool in summer, cold in winter, doesn't show dirt too much cos isn't one plain solid colout. Also is lovely and light and looks great over a large floor space, does not trap dirt/dust in grout