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need flooring help!
My fiance and I just bought a condo built in 1999 and want to replace the floors. Currently it has wall to wall carpeting throughout, expect for the bathrooms and kitchen.
We'd like to keep carpet in the bedrooms and tile in the bathrooms, but want to do the kitchen, living and dinning rooms in one surface.
Our budget for materials is about $5 per square foot and we're looking mostly at laminate and engineered wood. We prefer darker colors, but also know they can be a big pain to keep clean. It seems like wood scratches more easily but doesn't get footprints quite the way laminate does.
Does anyone have a flooring material they love and would recommend? All suggestions are welcome.
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Re: need flooring help!
Laminate is fancy plastic. For $5/sq ft, you can afford a better product. Put in engineered. Whether it scratches depends on the exact wood it's made from. Some appraisers won't give a house any value for laminate, viewing it the same as carpet or vinyl because it can be so affordable.
And here are my thoughts on the color opinions: yes, dark shows more, but I want to know when dirt's there, rather than just walking around in my own filth because I can't see it. EW.
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We're having hickory hand-scraped (engineered) hardwood installed in the house we're currently building. It's Bruce's and the color is Bison. We're not that far along yet, but I think it's going to look nice. It's dark but because of the distressing I think it'll hide marks.
I agree with PP about the laminate. I have dark colored "high end" laminate because putting hardwood in my house would be like bedazzling a Chevy Nova with diamonds. In the end it's still going to be a tiny sh!tbox.
It's cheapy looking and for a $5 budget I'd go with real hardwood. I've sort of noticed a regional difference between engineered hardwood and real hardwood. You see more engineered hardwood in homes in the south especially that are situated on concrete slab foundations because they are more impervious to the moisture that comes up from the slab.
Here in the northeast I think that regular hardwood is more common. Personally I don't really like my dark colored floors because of the dirt factor. You can see everything, and with a dog I'd really like to at least be able to pretend for a day that there aren't dog prints on the floor.
I would just go in to a store and pick out samples of the flooring you like the best, bring them home and look at them in your house with your lighting.