What kind of floor would you install near parquet?
We’ve got to install flooring in a kitchen, hallway, and two rooms in the rental apartment of our home. The front and rear rooms have the original parquet floor and the new floor would abut the parquet in a few doorways. What would complement the parquet but also be durable and affordable for us? Thanks…
We’ve got to install flooring in a kitchen, hallway, and two rooms in the rental apartment of our home. The front and rear rooms have the original parquet floor and the new floor would abut the parquet in a few doorways. What would complement the parquet but also be durable and affordable for us? Thanks for your input!
If I’m understanding your requirements correctly, you plan to refloor 2 rooms, a kitchen and a hall. It also sounds like there are doorways separating the spaces.
I like the suggestion of the Forbo Marmoleum for the kitchen. Just be sure you have a good, even subfloor. You could us a wood saddle, stained to match exsiting parquet, at the door.
For the hallway and other 2 rooms, which I’m assuming may be used as bedrooms, I’d suggest oak strip flooring. Just match the finish color of your existing flooring for continuity.
In my house I have this ugly pad of 2″ square, black tile on the floor in the kitchen part of my kitchen/living room. The tile meets oak strip flooring along one edge and the original skinny strip floor on the other edge. I don’t have the money to replace all the flooring so I plan to use cork penny rounds in a color to match the wood. I think the color continuity will make it ok.
Both the Forbo and cork will cost more installed than inexpensive ceramic tile or wood strip from somewhere like Lumber Liquidators.
Many brownstones have a combination of parquet and 3″ oak plank. Together they look fine….colors actually match pretty much. I’d use real 3/4″ thick oak…prefinished is better…not laminate flooring.
I would put in either real wood to match or real linoleum (Farbo). I happen to like linoleum in kitchens. It’s comfortable, practical, and historically authentic. However, some people find it tacky.
Wait, I’m not sure that I answered your question. Are you considering non-wood flooring?
I had to replace damaged flooring in the window bay of a parqueted room. I replaced the border to match the rest of the room, put straight boards and did a very careful staining to match. The wood is a little different. Reclaimed boards would have been better but the getting the color right made it a success. I think that maintaining the border style was key.