Kitchen flooring

I far prefer wood floors in the kitchen. I haven’t found them to be a problem with water spills and the like, as long as you mop up the water. And, unlike tile that is damaged, wood is fairly easy to refinish. I suspect the 100+ year old wood floors I have had in kitchens were possibly harder wood, more seasoned, or had better finishing on them than perhaps newer wood floors do.

Not only are wood floors beautiful, but as you get on into middle age, you really start to feel the hardness of tile and cement floors more in your joints – they ache from standing or working on them. I put a rug on my last kitchen wood floor, as it was in a very old apartment building with cement (I suspect-I’m not an expert on construction over 100 years ago) under the floor – it wasn’t as giving as the wood floors I’ve had in brownstones.

Now I have a tile kitchen floor with a soft rubber mat in front of the sink where I stand – but I’d far prefer that cushion underfoot in the entire kitchen. I’ve considered those interlocking rubber squares to cover the whole floor (to be covered b y a rug), but I don’t like the rubber smell in gyms that use that, and I read that they put little rubber bits into the air you breathe.

Were I to choose a kitchen floor, it would never be tile – it would be wood or cork only. If I was building it, I’d put in a sprung wood floor, the kind dance studios use, for more give underfoot.

brokelin

in Bath & Kitchen 7 years and 1 month ago

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hasibur.rahman07 | 7 years and 2 months ago

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jjnoonan, love your hex porcelain tile! it’s beautiful and made me feel better about going selecting tile.

decodeddreams | 7 years and 2 months ago

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Heath Ceramics sounds like a good fit based on your preferred aesthetic: http://www.heathceramics.com/tile-build

decodeddreams | 7 years and 2 months ago

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Heath Ceramics sounds like a good fit based on your preferred aesthetic: http://www.heathceramics.com/tile-build

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I had dark slate for a short period of time. It came from a Pennsylvania mine and was beautiful. Several of the 12×12 tiles cracked within months and every speck of dirt showed on the dark floors. Then, we used porcelain ceramic in an adobe color 8×8, with epoxy (no staining) grout in a darker color.. Has held up well for several years. Next time, I will use smaller tiles. Keep at least an extra box of tiles to replace cracked ones over time. Also found the Shark steam mop makes washing tile floors much easier.