Take a look at luxury wood vinyl products. There are lots of brands out there including Armstrong. You should be able to find one that matches the color of your downstairs tiles.

The stairway should be done in a contrasting finished wood (either stained or painted) by a carpenter. One option is black treads with white risers and white railings.

Thank you! I like the stairway idea; never considered vinyl before. I’ll look.

Simplest to maintain is definitely LVT = luxury vinyl tile. It's waterproof , looks like real wood also. Besides that you can actually build stair cases the same way you build it with any other flooring like hardwood or laminate,except lvt is harder to do (speaking from experience) but right contractor will make it work.

Are you trying to match or some close to what's downstairs? Or are you open to something completely different? I agree that Luxury Vinyl would be a great choice, but I am partial to the floating click-lock material over the glue-down. There are some great products out there like COREtec and Mannington's Adura. It would be a good choice for someone with allergies and there are a lot of different styles and colors to choose from.

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