Kitchen floor poll

[Barb D]

What is your kitchen floor made of? Are you happy with it? Pros and cons?

And what do you WANT your kitchen floor to be made of?

Poll coming...

 

[aprilgail2]

mine is Ceramic tile and I love it! Its easy to clean spills from and easy to clean. I dont care for the look of pergo at all...

 

[lilostitch]

Hardwoods, and I love it! Easy to clean spills, and not as cold as tile!

 

[CajunDixie]

Ours is dark blue with dark blue grout. It's a royal pain to clean and it's cold. I think I'd prefer bamboo or hickory next time.

 

[Planogirl]

Hardwood and I love it. It's easy to clean and it always looks nice.

 

[daisyduck123]

Hardwood. I love it....except when someone drops scissors on it. I have a small nick on the floor in each & every place.

 

[Beth76]

I have bamboo and I hate it! I've had it for about 2 years and it already needs to be replaced. Not really for us, but if we wanted to sell our house, we would need to replace it. I'm very disappointed because I talked with two different flooring stores and wanted something that would be durable and easy to clean. Well, durable it's not. Anytime something gets dropped on it, it dents and the dent turns black. There are even blace dents/spots that I have no idea what could have caused it. It's great in my hallway where there's not much traffic, but in the kitchen it looks like crap--even after I clean it. When I replace it, I will get ceramic tile or pergo.

 

[aprilgail2]

a bamboo floor?? I can't say that I have ever seen a bamboo floor....anyone have a pic to post of what it looks like???

 

[Michelina]

I have sheet vinyl and I love it! i wouldn't want anything else for a kitchen floor. I think ceramic is too cold and hard and laminate and hardwood can get ruined with a bad water spill.
I will say that my in-laws have ceramic w/ radiant heat underneath and that stays really nice and warm.

 

[JudicialTyranny]

We have prefinished hardwood. It's OK - it looks nice, etc. but the gaps between the boards are not as tight was site-finished hardwood. So it's possible for certain spills to get into the gaps and require a little extra cleaning.

With hardwood, there is site-finished and pre-finished.

With site-finished, they put down the unfinished wood, then sand, stain, and coat it. When we renovated our kitchen, we couldn't handle that - because of the way the house is laid out, we would have had to move out for a week while it was finished and that was not possible (school, pets, etc.)

With pre-finished, the wood is already stained etc. and they can just nail it down.

But the gaps between the boards are not quite as tight as site-finished.

 

[clh2]

I voted for vinyl sheeting...but the reality is... I WISH I HAD CERAMIC. We had ceramic in our old house...I loved it!

 

[Choc_marg]

Ours is cork & I LOVE it. We used to have ceramic tile. It was so hard on my back & feet if I wanted to spend any amount of time in there. We put down the cork over a year ago. I love the look, it is softer to stand on, it is a natural resource that grows back (it is the bark and not a tree itself), and it has a natural insect repellant. We live in AZ & are used to having scorpions in the house. I haven't seen 1 since we laid the floor. We did the 12 x 36 planks. They are toungue & groove & we did about 1000 sq ft ourselves in a weekend.

 

[ElizK]

We have ceramic tile. I really like it. The only drawback is the grout... once it's stained, it's stained. A bottle of strawberry flavoring extract broke and stained my tan grout pink. Very nice.

I like the idea of wood/pergo in the kitchen, but spills could cause problems. Will probably have ceramic in any future houses, too.

 

[MomofKatie]

We have awful, builder-grade, white vinyl flooring in the kitchen. Bleech! We have dents all over the floor from the kitchen table and chairs. The seams are coming up everywhere- if I so much as drop a butter knife on it, it gets a slit in it. The worst though, is that it is orange-peel textured WHITE!! Every bit of dirt gets trapped in the tiny bumps and hollows, and won't come out. I can spend an hour sweeping and mopping, and it still looks dingy!! The only thing that seems to make it look clean is Magic Eraser, and I have to get on my hands and knees and scrub it for ever to make it look good (at least for a couple of days ).

We are ripping out the wall-to-wall awful builder grade carpeting and vinyl from the entire first floor and replacing it with hardwood in the next year.

 

[Michelina]

Sorry...Double posted.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Currently I have linoleum. Next year we hope to install Mantico luxury vinyl plank - looks and feels just like real wood, and is gorgeous.

 

[Barb D]

Ours is cork & I LOVE it. .

How do you clean the cork?

 

[Choc_marg]

How do you clean the cork?

We just sweep & then damp mop. We sealed the whole thing after we laid it so that the seams were sealed. Maintenance is pretty easy.

 

[PrincessKitty1]

Carpet, yuck! We just priced porcelain tile this weekend and it's a lot more expensive than we expected--$2.50 to $3.00 per square foot, but triple that price for a quality installation. We want to have our living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, landing, and foyer tiled but that's around 900 square feet and $7200 is more than we want to spend right now.

We have a dog and a cat, and we have our carpet steam cleaned 3-4 times a year (in addition to regular vacuuming, of course), but it still is not clean enough for me.

 

[Mickeyfaniam]

funny you should ask .... just finished putting in our new ceramic tile today. And I love it.
Its a blend of 2 shades of blue and we special ordered some gray/blue matching grout. As we put it in it looked great but hours later when it dried...it was more of a grayish white I mean it looks great with the white too....but we really wanted the blue grout. We certainly wouldn't rip it up and start over but I'm going to Home Depot to complain.
We do have a good sealer to put on but I'm still worrying that the grout will get dirty and be unable to get it clean. At least thats what people are telling me. I welcome any advice !