Kitchen floor poll

[skuttle]

We're renting a house right now...has tile in the kitchen and bathroom. I can't stand the tile...cold and hard to clean. In a perfect world, when we buy a house later this year, it would have NO tile! My inlaws just bought a house will all tile floors...I can't stand it! I'm just not a tile girl I guess.

 

[lucyanna girl]

We have hard wood floors in this house and I really like them. Last house had ceramic tile and they were nice but I prefer the wood.

 

[Mickeyfaniam]

We're renting a house right now...has tile in the kitchen and bathroom. I can't stand the tile...cold and hard to clean. In a perfect world, when we buy a house later this year, it would have NO tile! My inlaws just bought a house will all tile floors...I can't stand it! I'm just not a tile girl I guess.

well so far the cold hasn't bothered me. I'm having hot flashes most of time anyway so I just go stand on it bare foot and it cools me off

 

[HOGFAN]

we have a laminate that looks like ceramic.. best floor we have ever had.

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

We have hardwood and I love it. I've had ceramic, vinyl sheet and vinyl squares (in different houses) and didn't like any of them. I don't know why people think wood is high maintenance--it always looks good, easy to clean, durable and refinishable! And spills wipe right up, so there really is not much worry about water damage unless you leave a puddle of water sitting there for a day or so.
There is a good reason why 200 year old houses have original wood floors in them!!! They last!

 

[Tinijocaro]

Hardwood- love the warm cozy look it gives. We've had plenty of spills with four kids, but as long as they don't sit for hours, which they don't, you don't get water damage.

Had carpet before when we moved in- yuck! Couldn't stand it.

jackie

 

[ragdoll]

We have ceramic tile. It looked great when we moved in 9 years ago. But by now the grout will not come clean (of course I must admit I never really tried all that hard to clean it good) and it has a lot of chips in it. The day we moved in as I was putting the toaster away I dropped it and put three chips in the floor. I have been adding to those three ever since. I was also very surprised at how hard it was on my feet and back. I finally had my bigger kitchen that I always wanted but found myself not wanting to spend as much time in there as I thought I would because it was so tiring.

It does still look nice enough but I think I would prefer wood or sheet linoleum.

 

[Jen_in_NH]

I'm one of the "something else" category. We have a hundres year old farmhouse that we bought this past spring. We ripped out the original linoleum and subfloor with the intention of laying tile. When we got everything removed, there were gorgeous pine floors underneath. So we sanded and refinished those.

Jen

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Ours is tile laminate. I love it! It looks like tile, but is a little easier on the legs and things don't break quite as easily when dropped on the floor. I do need to be careful about water pooling on the floor, but it hasn't been a problem so far. We had sheet vinyl, which was in terrible shape.

 

[laura001]

Mine is Laminate flooring and I absolutely love it! It is so easy to clean and it was a breeze for my husband to install and the cost was very inexpensive.

 

[MinnieGi]

We have hardwood and we love it. It looks beautiful and contrary to what we first thought when we bought the house last year it is easy to care for. Our old house had ceramic tile and althoug it looked beautiful it was very painful on my feet. My feet would ache everynight from that floor. In our new house with the hardwoods, I can be in there all day and no pain!!!!!!!

 

[Servants of Evan]

Bruce Prefinished hardwood (oak). It's nice, but at seven years it's definately showing a few more nicks and scrapes than I'd like. I've got the repair kit for it but haven't been brave enough to try... We installed the floor ourselves -- I did the measuring and nailing, and my DW handled the Power Miter Saw. With the unique shape of our kitchen it took just under a full day to install.

 

[Disney Doll]

Ours is made of hardwood with a water-based acrylic finish. I clean it with a mix of water and window cleaner. I love it. I love the look ad I love how easy it is to care for.

 

[Mishetta]

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.

We too have ceramic tile ~ white with gentle swirls of taupe, looks like marble, with a very light beige colored grout. It looks absolutely awesome. But once I dropped a bottle of soy sauce & whatever you drop on ceramic tile will shatter into a million pieces. Needless to say, my light beige grout was brown in the areas that the soy sauce hit. I tried to clean it myself (bleach & toothbrush) immediately & a lot of it did come out. Later on I had it professionally cleaned, where they use a machine much like a power washer (only it vacuums up the water as fast as it's spitting out) & what a difference! I couldn't even tell where the soy sauce had ruined the grout! A tile man had told me that if we had sealed our grout, that would have never happened but we never did seal it.

ElizK ~ you can check into those companies that offer steaming your grout. It will really look like the first day you had it installed.

 

[Horseshoes]

I have ceramic tile, and I am so dissappointed I didnt go with hardwood.

We did seal the grout but it still looks dirty. I once got on my hands and knees and cleaned the entire floor with a toothbrush, but still never looked clean. Not to mention some of the tiles have cracked due to settling.

My DH talked me out of hardwood, I wish I hadnt listened to him.

 

[bananiem]

I have laminate that looks like stone. It's made like Pergo, but it's from Wilsonart. I LOVE IT!!!!! I've had vinyl and ceramic in the past but I'll stick with this from now on. It wears great, has enough color variation to hide EVERYTHING, and is super easy to clean. It's interlocking and smooth so when you sweep the crumbs don't get stuck in the grout lines.
This is what it looks like :

 

[RUDisney]

There are different grades of Pergo and different grades of prefinished hardwood. I never liked the look of Pergo until I saw a pricier grade of it and I really would have thought it was real hardwood.

As for the hardwood, we had the Bruce microline hardwood installed. The V between boards is tinier than any other grade and it doesn't show or collect dirt. We've installed h/w in all of our house except the kids' rooms. If their carpets weren't under 3-years old, we'd have it in their rooms, too. I've never found anything that cleans easier than h/w. I couldn't imagine having anything else in my kitchen... well, I remember the vinyl linoleum, but it's a memory that I'd like to forget.

As for spills lifting the h/w, that's what homeowner's insurance is for. We had a 5-gallon water jug lift boards in our living room before the jugs were carried to the kitchen. We didn't know it was leaking until we moved it. Our homeowners insurance paid for the repairs to the wood. The jugs now stay on our deck in the non-freezing months until they're needed, or they are carried to the unfinished part of our basement in the winter.

 

[tc]

I chose other, becuase we have slate, which is different from ceramic tile. I love it. Natural stone is not as cold as tile (but not as warm as wood). Hard to sweep due to the uneveness of it, but shows no dirt.

 

[DisneyJen0504]

Ceramic tile. Love it..its new so I dont want anything else!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Ceramic tile, which I have been pretty happy with. The only problem I have is I am doing a lot of baking or cooking my feet start to hurt, but that can be remedied by wearing slippers.