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Kitchen floor preference ... ceramic tile or hard wood?
We are having a hard time selecting a floor for our kitchen... have been looking at the pros and cons of both ceramic tile and hard wood and we love both, but I can't decide. What is your preference and experience with these floors? Thank you!!
Re: Kitchen floor preference ... ceramic tile or hard wood?
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Neither - go with a manufactured rubber-type product. It's much easier on the feet, it won't shatter glasses, and will not get as cold in winter. Easy to clean too -- no tile grooves or lines between wood board.
That's my two cents. If you have wood cabinets, please don't go with wood -- it's just too much.
We had hard wood floors in the kitchen of our last house. I loved them but I don't think I would pick that if I had a choice.
They wore down really easily. If you do go with wood, make sure you get something really durable like Brazilian Teak.
It was hard to clean. The knots and the spaces between the planks were dirt magnets. Although with the new wood flooring options you probably would not have this problem.
It was a lot of wood... between wood floors and similar color wood cabinets, it was wood overload.
We never had water problems.
The only major benefit to wood was that it's a lot warmer on your feet in winter.
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Is your house on a slab? If so Tile will be very cold.
Wood holds up in a kitchen if you take care of it and protect it. Most higher end homes have wood or tile in the kitchens.
A big consideration to me is what kinds of floors does the kitchen border. You don't want 3-4 different types of flooring bordering each other. If the whole house is hard wood, then a tile kitchen is fine, but if tile will border wood, rug, etc you may just want to keep it the same.
A high quality wood laminate flooring will handle water better than wood and be easier to clean.
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Hardwood, it is more resilient underfoot than tile. But that depends upon how much you actually cook and will be spending time in there standing.
Plus with as messy as my DH/boys are, I think having to clean grout lines would be a freaking nightmare.
My choice would be a natural linoleum though like Forbo's Marmoleum. It can be installed as sheet flooring, which is nice because you'd have fewer seams, or tiles or Click flooring planks.
I have had both, and I prefer wood. I think it's just as easy to keep clean. My tile floors started to look bad after a while because spills and dirt darkened the grout, and I couldn't clean it. I guess you could regrout if you wanted to.
I picked based on my kitchen, though - our old house had maple cabinets, so we chose a tile floor that matched the countertops. I don't like the log cabin / wood all over look.
Our current house has white cabinets, so the wood floor looks nice against them.
I've had both, and I would vote for wood.
I like the warmer feeling of wood.
We have never had water problems. Our fridge icemaker leaked once and the wood floors were not damaged.
I don't think wood is hard to maintain at all. Just clean with a microfiber mop and a vinegar-water solution once a week and they'll stay nice and shiny.
In my experience, tile was harder to clean because the grout lines can get gunky. Also ... grout can get stained ... like if you spill wine on it. Trust me.
If you decide to go with tile, depending on where you live, I would suggest getting the in-floor radiant heat. I live in the midwest, and tile floors that aren't heated can get really cold here. We have heated travertine tile floors in our bathrooms which is really nice.
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wood. I'm shocked at all those that aren't for it! IMO you can't even compare the two. Ceramic is so cold and for me, the wood is so much easier to maintain and doesn't show everything! Love it!
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