Which Kitchen Floor, ideas please

Dave_6

Hi all,

The time has come to try and improve my kitchen on a budget.
It's a pretty pathetic kitchen, I've just finished pulling up the old self adhesive floor tiles that were down.
Fortunately these came off quite easily and haven't left any old adhesive down.


Due to budget we want to avoid ripping the whole kitchen out and so the plan is to do the following.


1st, lay a new floor. This is what I'd like to do asap (few days off work next week to do so)
We can't decide on what to go for, better looking vinyl tiles which would be cheap and easy, BUT I can't help but feel they look too plain and like the old floor,

I quite like this white gloss laminate and feel it'll brighten the room aswell as modernise it.
Otherhalf however doesn't like them.
http://www.wickes.co.uk/high-gloss-white-laminate-flooring/invt/219474/



Any thoughts or ideas?


2nd stage will be replacing the worktop, looking for a darker colour. New kitchen sink etc.

We'll then re-tile and re-paint.
We'll also then look to replace cupboard doors and handles.

1st aim is the floor, then worktop, sink, tiles, paint.






Kitchen as it is now, following removal of floor




Shows the old vinyl floor tile colour







Do you think the white gloss floor would be a bad idea, if so any recommendations.
Due to ease of fitting and cost we want to avoid real tiles.


Thanks

katejo

Dave_6 wrote: »

Hi all,

The time has come to try and improve my kitchen on a budget.
It's a pretty pathetic kitchen, I've just finished pulling up the old self adhesive floor tiles that were down.
Fortunately these came off quite easily and haven't left any old adhesive down.


Due to budget we want to avoid ripping the whole kitchen out and so the plan is to do the following.


1st, lay a new floor. This is what I'd like to do asap (few days off work next week to do so)
We can't decide on what to go for, better looking vinyl tiles which would be cheap and easy, BUT I can't help but feel they look too plain and like the old floor,

I quite like this white gloss laminate and feel it'll brighten the room aswell as modernise it.
Otherhalf however doesn't like them.
http://www.wickes.co.uk/high-gloss-white-laminate-flooring/invt/219474/



Any thoughts or ideas?


2nd stage will be replacing the worktop, looking for a darker colour. New kitchen sink etc.

We'll then re-tile and re-paint.
We'll also then look to replace cupboard doors and handles.

1st aim is the floor, then worktop, sink, tiles, paint.






Kitchen as it is now, following removal of floor




Shows the old vinyl floor tile colour







Do you think the white gloss floor would be a bad idea, if so any recommendations.
Due to ease of fitting and cost we want to avoid real tiles.


Thanks

Don't go for white vinyl tiles! They get grubby very quickly and, however often you clean them, there will always be a grey film over them after a very short time. I had porcelain tiles put down in my new kitchen last summer and they are much much better. A matt surface is easier to clean than a gloss one.