Best wood or "wood" flooring for kitchen?

[tvguy]

Water and wood or fake wood don't mix. You can get real nice ceramic tile that looks like wood. 6x36" pieces, looks real nice just put it down in my kitchen. Fairly cheap at Home Depot.

Water doesn't work well with ceramic tile either. My dishwasher apparently was leaking nicely between the tile and the subfloor for a long time and the tile did a nice job of hiding it. I was only out my $1,000 deductible, but my home owners insurance paid out several thousand dollars for repairs and new flooring.

 

[Meshell2002]

I have wood look tile in my kitchen, family room and hallways...love it. It's nice and cool in the summer....im south alabama though...we rarely get a day below 40. Not sure I'd go that route in a cold climate....very good for mud clean up from my kids cleats.

 

[IDoDis]

Water and wood or fake wood don't mix. You can get real nice ceramic tile that looks like wood. 6x36" pieces, looks real nice just put it down in my kitchen. Fairly cheap at Home Depot.

Water doesn't work well with ceramic tile either. My dishwasher apparently was leaking nicely between the tile and the subfloor for a long time and the tile did a nice job of hiding it. I was only out my $1,000 deductible, but my home owners insurance paid out several thousand dollars for repairs and new flooring.

The tile in the photo is actually porcelain tile which is a newer form of ceramic tile and extremly popular among homeowners. Porcelain tiles are composed of fine porcelain clays and fired at much higher temperatures than ceramic tiles. This process makes porcelain tile more dense, less porous, much harder and less prone to moisture and stain absorption than ceramic tiles.

 

[cabanafrau]

My mom put in cork flooring in her kitchen. It has held up very well and I like the way it feels when you are standing on it.

Cork flooring is ideal for a kitchen. It's especially kind to your joints if you spend a great deal of time standing and holds up very well.

 

[MSLRAC]

I have wood look tile in my kitchen, family room and hallways...love it. It's nice and cool in the summer....im south alabama though...we rarely get a day below 40. Not sure I'd go that route in a cold climate....very good for mud clean up from my kids cleats.

I was wondering if it would be cold. We have ceramic tile in our bathrooms and it gets cold in the winter. There is no way I'd want that in my kitchen or bulk of our main level.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

We're putting in Bamboo wood floors. We have about 25 samples of all kinds of wood floors that we beat the heck out of and the bamboo floors won out by a landslide. They are not easy to scratch or ding. We hit them with all kinds of stuff and the bamboo only shows dents etc when we hit them with my metal stapler- lol. I used some of the other wood samples to hit it and the bamboo broke the other pieces of wood flooring!

http://www.calibamboo.com/product-java-fossilized-solid-bamboo-flooring-9009001001.html

 

[BadgerGirl84]

We have ceramic tile now but are looking and putting in new floors in our entire first floor.

My husband re-did the guest bath with the wood-look porcelain tile and it looks fantastic. I don't think I'd want it anywhere other than our laundry room or other baths, however, since it's cold and not comfortable to stand on for a long period of time. (We had tile in our kitchen at our old house and it was easy to clean, but I didn't like standing on it for a long time.)

I'm voting for high-end vinyl plank siding. We have a baby, a toddler and one on the way--there are lots of spills. We also have a dog who likes to pee on the floor occasionally overnight--ew. Vinyl just seems SO easy to care for and totally waterproof. My husband says it won't add any value to the house and wants to use the Outlast+ Pergo floor which supposedly can handle a spill for 24 hours. I'm hoping to still win him over to the vinyl.

 

[waltonmkb]

We put in wood-look ceramic tile last summer and I love it! It's so much easier to take care of than actual wood flooring!

 

[crzy4dsny]

Water doesn't work well with ceramic tile either. My dishwasher apparently was leaking nicely between the tile and the subfloor for a long time and the tile did a nice job of hiding it. I was only out my $1,000 deductible, but my home owners insurance paid out several thousand dollars for repairs and new flooring.

The wood underneath the tile was damaged I assume? Ceramic tile grout lines are not water prof, water will go thru it. Water will not damage it except under possibly extreme conditions, where a small amount of water will cause pergo to buckle.

 

[tvguy]

The wood underneath the tile was damaged I assume? Ceramic tile grout lines are not water prof, water will go thru it. Water will not damage it except under possibly extreme conditions, where a small amount of water will cause pergo to buckle.

In my case, the water was between the subfloor and the tile, and the tile concealed it until some of the wood rotted, and since it no longer was supporting the tiles, they cracked, revealing the leak.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

We went were Pergo and are happy with it.

 

[pryncess527]

My mom put in cork flooring in her kitchen. It has held up very well and I like the way it feels when you are standing on it.

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we did ceramic tile in our kitchen, and I love the look and I love how durable it is -- but I'll never make that choice again. it KILLS my back after not that long because it's such a hard surface. Next time, I'd go with cork or bamboo. Or even some stylish rubber options I've seen. I love to cook and never again will I pick a hard surface like tile for the floor.

 

[IDoDis]

We've moved into our new house and the porcelean tile isn't cold on bare feet. I know it's summer and it will be colder in the winter. However, the ceramic tile in the upstairs bathrooms feels cold compared to the porcelean tile. I can definitely feel a difference. It will be interesting to see how they compare in the winter.

 

[aprilgail]

The people who owned my house before me put in Pergo, I hate it. We will be replacing it with porcelain tile that looks like weathered wood.
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That is really nice! I can not stand pergo or any of the fake wood stuff people put down- I hate the feeling of walking on it and the look of most of it, it just looks and feels so fake! I just ripped up the last room in my house to be redone- it was my daughters nursery and the last room In the house to have carpet in it (which I also hate) under the carpet there were like peel and stick floor tiles so we got those up, got the glue off and now it is down to the original hardwood floors-having someone come in and refinish those and then they will match the rest of the house (other than the kitchen and bathroom which are ceramic)

 

[Dan Murphy]

The people who owned my house before me put in Pergo, I hate it. We will be replacing it with porcelain tile that looks like weathered wood.
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Is the surface of that tile smooth, or does it have a texture like it looks?

 

[wenrob]

Is the surface of that tile smooth, or does it have a texture like it looks?

It's textured.

 

[Dan Murphy]

It's textured.

Very neat!! Thanks.

 

[wenrob]

Very neat!! Thanks.

You're welcome. It's at Home Depot, there are several colors.