I don't know anyone who's used them in their homes, but our local Von's supermarkets has Karndean in several areas. It looks terrific, feels great underfoot, and sure gets a lot of traffic.

LVT (laminated Vinyl Tile) is durable and and good choice in those situations where real wood floors would not be a good choice.

Karndean is good, so is Amtico and many others. There is even a tongue in groove floating vinyl flooor plank on the market. I saw this product yesterday and I was intrigued.

Although you may not want sheet vinyl in wood designs, I saw some of those also that are realistic representations of the real thing.

Still looking for the "perfect" flooring for our asbestos tiled basement. I did a small area (laundry room--really a large closet!) in the HD version of Konnecto last August. (It's called "Allure".) It has held up well...but the traffic in that "room" is pretty light. Particularly since there are only two of us at home now.

glennsfc...I'd love to hear more about the floating vinyl flooring you saw. I hate tile... too hard. I want to do some sort of floating floor...then I don't have to worry too much about bond-busting black cut-back adhesive. I can either float the floor over the existing tile...or I can pull up the old tile and lay it over the black adhesive.

Thoughts?

melanie

Are you sure that vons uses Karndean? I like the texture, knotholes, etc but I couldn't find it at Karndean. Thanks everyone!

Chris

This is somewhat late, but just in case you're searching like I am....Avoid Karndean at all costs. It took days for our floor to have scuffs everywhere. The floor looks like it is scratched terribly. We're told they are actually scuff marks. Our retail store filed for complete replacement from Karndean International. They have been very unresponsive, refuse to answer questions, replace the floor, and rarely answer phone calls. We looked for well over a year when we settled on Karndean. Karndean is a nightmare.