Choosing right type & colour of tile for Kitchen Floor

u2thepale

Hi,

Really looking for people opinion on colour and type of tile for our kicthen floor as I think i'm going around in circles..

Recently had new kitchen put in , (cart before the horse) and have always intended laying new tiles as i hate the ones that are currently down...

Attched are pics save me describing it ...

All opinions good or bad appreciated

Joey the lips

Nice kitchen nothing wrong with the floor tile. Have you considered sold beige or white porc to bring out the shine in the units.... It looks like a small area so I would not get a hard to clean tile if it experiences a lot of traffic.

There is nothing wrong with putting the kitchen in first the tiler will most likely offer 2 solutions

1. Take up the old tiles

2. Tile over the old tiles.


It all boils down to you but honestly it depends. If you tile over it will be less messy but might make your kickboards look a slight bit shorter.

If you need more advice pm me.

geneval2008

Totally agree with previous poster, cream porcelain would look fab here. I have an almost identical Kitchen and got the 60 x 60cm ones. Love them!

u2thepale

Cheers for the the advice Joey & geneval2008 will let you know how I get on ..

00dec

i woul advise you to take up the old tiles before laying new ones. If one of the old tiles came loose or the grout failed it would crack your new tiels.

i think a cream porcelain tile, rectangular in shape and laid down in a brick pattern would be really nice and the brick pattern would make the kitchen a lot bigger

Joey the lips

If you do get a 60 x 30 porc make sure its not rectified as it cannot be laid in brick effect, if the tile shop does not understand you, dont buy them

mossie110

do you really want to go with tile or are you open to other options. i think walnut wood flooring would look well, but i love walnut
you can get a few samples of tiles to see what you'd like,

Joey the lips

mossie110 wrote: »

do you really want to go with tile or are you open to other options. i think walnut wood flooring would look well, but i love walnut
you can get a few samples of tiles to see what you'd like,

I agree that wooden floors in Kitchens look fab but if the kitchen has a lot of traffic in a small area like this one they are very impractable, In otherwords. In a one bed apt wooden floors look great but in a 3 bed with kidsm wont last 2 years. Will be resanded after 3... and that does not include the higher risk of water damage.

Just my opinion.

u2thepale

The thought had crossed my mind to continue the walnut into the kitchen , as its laminate but good laminate , only thing that put me off was the possibility of water damge and making the kitchen look too dark.....maybe.
The floor area to be tiled or lay floors is only 16m2 so as Joey says it's not a big area,

I'm lookiing at a Travertine effect porcelain tile at the moment , which is is kind of creamy but has some darkish brown veins going through it , waiting on clearance from the "war office"

Again thanks for evryones help

Charlie_

The kitchen is beautiful - and you have the dark wood around the bottom which leaves you with a good separation of colour for tiles. What about the large white porcelain tiles? I have cream ones and although initially the grout was hard to get off them but they are easy enough to keep clean. My only disappointment was that i have cream grout and hoped the sealer would protect the colour..........big mistake...........the sealer was useless.

C

u2thepale wrote: »

Hi,

Really looking for people opinion on colour and type of tile for our kicthen floor as I think i'm going around in circles..

Recently had new kitchen put in , (cart before the horse) and have always intended laying new tiles as i hate the ones that are currently down...

Attched are pics save me describing it ...

All opinions good or bad appreciated

guideanna

I think cream shiny tiles would realld make this kitchen. It's lovely and the floor in it now is awful in comparison, only thing with light tiles is that they're had to keep clean but if you don't have small kids or a dog running around i'd go for it.

imitation

Here is a question, how suitable is a laminate timber flooring for a kitchen ? I assumed tiles are the only real way to go as laminate will just get soggy and useless. I saw some tile effect laminate in B&Q, but it was on some poor looking mdf that almost looked like thick cardboard. How long would that last with the amount of water an average kitchen floor would get ?

DubGal10

Hi,

Wood floor is not suitable for a kitchen area with a dishwasher or washing machine. The fear of these leaking would be just soaked into the flooring causing large expense in the future

You have a lovely kitchen that cream polished porcelain would really suit
depending on how much bigger the area is from the picture you should go with 60x60 if anything around 25sq yards if smaller stick to maybe 60x30 or 50x50 dont go too small as it just means more grout lines for cleaning

Hope it helps!

u2thepale

Eventually found a tile that "we" liked for the kitchen ...
Kicthen looks much brighter and spacious compared to what it was like before,

Have attached before and after for those intererested ...

Thanks one and all for your help !!
D.

amesoc

Lovely kitchen, very similar to what I'm hoping to get. Can you tell me where you got yours and did they supply the red splashback (if that's what it's called?!)?

u2thepale

Hi Amesoc,

Will pm you the details...
F.Y.I the splashback was bought seprately from colourglass (no affiliation0!!

Cheers