Kitchen flooring Tile Dilemma
It is time to choose tiles to go on the floor of my new kitchen. I was planning on putting a wood effect tile down but am scared it will clash with the engineered wood floor in the adjacent living room. The kitchen has dark grey cabinets painted in F&B downpipe on the bottom, and white cabinets on top with a grey mirrored splash-back and an off-white work top. There are also elements of oak in the shelving and in the handles for the cupboards. Which tiles do you think would be best for the flooring in this kitchen?
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Juliet Docherty
4 years agoOr you could go for a patterned tile and put some wood accessories in to warm it up.
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These are the samples of the materials that will be used. With the floor tile being the wood on the left of the photo. Do you think this goes together?
The tile shop is saying to go for a floor tile like the sample on the left. Will this make the kitchen feel far too monochrome and grey?
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4 years agoThank you for all the suggestions. I really like the kitchen you posted @colourhappy. But fear I don't have the space to do something like that as it is only a small narrow floor space. What do you think of the wood samples? The bottom left is the colour of the wood of the recessed handles, and shelves in the kitchen, top right is possibly the colour of the floor tiles and the background is a suggestion for the engineered wood floor leading into the kitchen.
rinked
4 years agoWhen you say small narrow floor space, my patterned tile thoughts get stronger :)
Might be a solid color (or slightly mixed) in a pattern. Sheet vinyl, pvc tile or ceramic.
I don't think your current wood floor and the ceramic wood match well..William Gallegos
4 years agoThank you all so far for your replies. The property is quite a modern flat would a patterned floor work? Basically I don't want engineered wood in the kitchen as I think it would get damaged too easily. The entrance to the kitchen is only a door width and the visible tiled floor area will be 1.15m x 2.59m I do like the herringbone design to the floor do you think there is enough room for this? I just don't want it to look odd against the dining room flooring (not chosen yet). Below are all the kitchen colour samples together (possibly with or without the tile which is bottom right). Maybe I should be looking at a different living room floor??
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4 years agoThank you all for your input. In the end I went for wood effect tile. Here is a photo of the end result. Would love to know what you think...
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4 years agoThis is the end result of tiles and wood flooring. I laid the wood flooring in the opposite direction to the tiles to try and separate the difference a bit more. Does it work?
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