Luxury Vinyl Flooring for Kitchen?

chris1012

We are currently having our open plan kitchen/diner/living area renovated from floor up and just put in an order for our kitchen (which will be delivered in early October).

Colour's of are new kitchen is as follows -

Base Units - Matt Greige
Tall Units - Matt Slightly Greyish White

Worktop (not yet decided) - likely will be white with marble effect
*Example Worktops -


Walls - will be off white (not yet decided)

We are struggling with two elements of the kitchen now -
1. New Ceiling lighting layout
2. The flooring we should go for that will tie in and contrast the colour of our worktop.

We have decided on Luxury Vinyl as its easy to install, hard wearing, warm, can be used with wet under floor heating, not as hard as tiles (we have 3 young children) and lastly can be removed/changed around the kitchen easily.

We have just been to a showroom and saw the following sample which we think would work well with the colours of our kitchen -


Our kitchen designer has provided us a 3D plan of our kitchen and I have managed to take some stills, which is what we are using to help us decide on the flooring.

***The pictures doesn't represent the floor sample above or the worktops (worktop is plain white in the pictures instead of the effects within the tile, as per above examples) -









Our construction company who has carried out the renovation will be installing the flooring and therefore we are unable to wait until the kitchen arrives to choose the flooring.

Just to add, we have wooden flooring throughout the house and was hoping to have something different in the kitchen/diner area.

What colours would you think would be good for our flooring while tying in with the other colours we have within the kitchen?

Any suggestions and tips would be greatly appreciated!

Many Thanks

Slinky

The flooring looks very similar to the other colours in your kitchen, it all looks a bit bland. I think you could be a bit bolder with colour choice for your floor - you need some contrast.

Can you borrow some sample books from a flooring company and try them in your kitchen?

Doozergirl

You'll be fine tying it in, given that there aren't actually many colours going on in there!

What I would do is contrast with the worktops in terms of pattern. You're not going to match it exactly and I'm not convinced that two slightly different patterns in two ever so slightly different tones is going to look amazing.

I'd probably go for a wood effect (there will be greys and greiges and all sort of options) and run the flooring through the house, rather than one room. I wouldn't personally go any lighter than the greige units, but that's to provide some contrast as well as avoiding the floor needing mopping every five minutes.

Your kitchen company will have sample doors. Borrow a couple and take them to the floor shop.

rach_k

Amtico will send you samples I think. I would assume other companies will too.

In your kitchen I'd go for something darker on the floor. It's all very samey otherwise. We have some quite dark grey Amtico which I love and it kind of grounds everything. Or perhaps something similar to the colour of the wooden shelves?

missprice

Ah,I have a cream kitchen, butcher's block worktops, white walls and black floor.
Needed the contrast of the black floor. Would have been too clinical looking otherwise

Doozergirl

Looking on the internet, Kahrs Grey Frame parquet is beautiful. I'd choose parquet all day every day.

Amtico ones that look like they might go would be:
Drift Oak
Umbra Veil
Metropolis Smoke
Pearl Wash Wood

I'm guessing by the 3D rendering that this is a pretty expensive kitchen. I wouldn't choose black at all. It's such an obvious choice.

Doozergirl

https://imgur.com/gallery/xYpy5

Do these work?

This is one of my projects. Similar looking kitchen, similar looking worktops!

The floor is a smoked oak, but the LVT companies do produce similar. I adore this mix, it grounds the kitchen but it is such a soft colour and so classy. The mix of textures in the kitchen work well. Nothing is too similar in texture, even though they are within the same tonal range.

chris1012

Thank you for all your responses.

Thanks you for your responses.

No doubt a wood effect would work however not sure if it would look good as the rest of the house is in rustic engineer wood and the hallway to the kitchen is in the same.

The door to the kitchen would be left open quite a bit, so you would see when the change of wood/colour/pattern all take place....

Doozergirl

You get the colour idea though from those items? Two of the tiles I listed aren't wood either.

If I give you one rule, just don't try and match the worktop.

I'd consider bringing the existing floor through, even. Try and tie the house together. You may get a culture shock going from existing rooms into a space age kitchen!

J_B

Mrs B is now an 'expert' on LVT
She concluded that Karndean was living on it's name a little.

We chose Polyflor but (long story short) renovating apartments and need acoustic barrier and they couldn't guarantee with a different acoustic mat underneath

We have now chosen Lifestyle Colosseum 5g Clic

http://www.lifestyle-floors.co.uk/
Crap website (most are) but seems to be a good product.