Kitchen/living space, all tile or not?

patsyrockem

Getting down to planning the layout of our kitchen and living space, we will be tiling the kitchen end but can't decide whether to tile the whole room or to put in timber or high quality laminate at living space. The whole room is 9.5m x 5.5m. There will be heavy enough traffic at the living space end so tiles might be the more durable. I would love to hear peoples opinions as we are totally undecided. Thanks

Tokyo

patsyrockem wrote: »

Getting down to planning the layout of our kitchen and living space, we will be tiling the kitchen end but can't decide whether to tile the whole room or to put in timber or high quality laminate at living space. The whole room is 9.5m x 5.5m. There will be heavy enough traffic at the living space end so tiles might be the more durable. I would love to hear peoples opinions as we are totally undecided. Thanks

Its down to personal choice pretty much, but I actually had to make the same decision about five weeks ago, and I chose to tile the whole area.

The reason I went with tiling the entire space is that, like your own room, it was going to be a heavily trafficked space, as my kitchen area also acts as a link between the front and rear living space. both living spaces have timber floors, and I figured that at least part of the house needed to have a hard wearing, durable surface to take the brunt of the wear and tear. In my case the kitchen also opens out to a rear courtyard, and tiles in my opinion were a better option for where I'd be pushing wheelie bins out to, where the oil delivery guy would be running the delivery line out to, etc etc. Of course what worked for me may not work for you at all, but that was my logic at the time.

9.5x5.5m is a bloody big room....