Kitchen floor - Advice needed

newnhak

Hi

I am doing my kitchen and have read the threads on here to get some useful advice. however I am now getting stuck with the flooring and what best to do.

Basically the kitchen is a long galley space approx 4m*2m. At one of the short ends there is a archway that leads into far left corner of the dining room (4m*4M approx) Currently there is a wooden step on the arch which I want to take out. Because the floor level between the two rooms is different the builder has said there will be a gentle slope from dining room to kitchen (it is a concrete floor)

So i am thinking vinyl will work best (I dont have a big budget ) I have had one person in to look at vinyl flooring samples - he suggested tiles at a diagonal. I think this will work in the dining space but will look wrong in the dining room space as the tiles are only 15cm sq.

Does anyone have any suggestions or have experience of flooring a similar shaped space?

Thanks

Karen

ormus

by how much are the levels different?
i would be tempted to level the two floors first. if its not much then plywood etc would do the job cheaply.
(ie OSB is only a tenner a sheet)

newnhak

Thanks for the suggestion but i can't really raise the dining floor as it will then be higher than the living room which it leads into. The alternative is to lower the kitchen floor but this is a major piece of work and there will be enough upheaval with refitting kitchen and flooring dining room. I have 3 kids and work full time so I am trying to keep work to a minimum.

However I still want to acheive one floor throughout as i think it will make the space look bigger.

ormus

sorry i thought the slope was the other way.

"the builder has said there will be a gentle slope from dining room to kitchen"

newnhak

oops sorry - yeah kitchen floor is higher so slope will run down into dining room