Modern white kitchen. What flooring?
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Sonia
4 years agoI love white kitchens, but a white contemporary kitchen can look clinical If everything is very pale and plain. I would suggest a warm wooden type floor. It doesn’t have to be real wood, it can be luxury vinyl, porcelain or laminate. The picture you show as a sample has done exactly that. We get a lot of people on Houzz asking how to warm up a white or grey kitchen they have just installed. I would also add more texture in the splashbacks, whether it is tiles, glass etc. Then you can add rustic wooden shelves to display artefacts and plants. It really warms up the look. There is an article on Houzz about white kitchen which you can search for above. Here’s a few examples of what I mean
Tani H-S
4 years agoI completely agree re going for a warm wood floor. Our previous kitchen in our old house was north facing and white gloss with grey worktops. We had a rich American walnut wood effect floor and it made such a difference to how warm it felt.
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clintonbeattie
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
Carolina
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoHi, what do you think of a good quality, thick vinyl floor? You won't need much and if you change the living room floor later, you could easily take it up and put down something else if it doesn't look good. Perhaps continue the living room floor into the kitchen if you go for wood, laminate or LVT.
Your kitchen floor needs to be very smooth and level for it.
I've googled and particularly like these ones. Don't know the quality, but you could order samples if you like them too:
https://www.onlinecarpets.co.uk/vinyl-flooring/presto-pattern-vinyl-flooring.html
or
https://www.onlinecarpets.co.uk/vinyl-flooring/modern-wood-wizzart-vinyl-flooring.html
or
https://www.onlinecarpets.co.uk/vinyl-flooring/victoria-tile-vinyl-flooring.html#272=1324
The photos are just for you to visualise how something like that would look
clintonbeattie
4 years agoclintonbeattie
4 years ago
Juliet Docherty
4 years agoclintonbeattie
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThank you all so much. I have finalised some decisions based off all the information provided.
1. I will be using tile and try to get warmth into the kitchen using wood somewhere and plants
2. I will be using white/light grey units (Gloss). Possible one set of units grey eg against one wall.
3. I will be using tiles (I can't use wood with the current predicament of the wood in living area.
I have attached a few pics and hopefully you will provide your opinions. One thing I did notice while looking at white/grey kitchens and tiles is that not all came across as, 'cold' and, 'clinical'.
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