Dark floors show all the dirt and absorb a lot of light.

I love dark floors but you do need to know they show everything and you need really good lighting.

Actually they will show the most dirt. My husband wanted a black slate porcelain in our previous remodel; tiles ordered and in my garage. Installer comes in and says "are you sure?" I'm like "why?", he proceeded to lay some down and walk on them with his shoes on.You could see everything! I went shopping for new tiles and the slate went into our finished basement.

My husband had black tile in his bachelor condo - forget about using anything like talcum powder or flour - you will see it!

I think if you love it and you are aware of the cons do it. Make a swiffer your best friend at least when crap gets on it you will know that is my take on dark floors and white kitchens

I can only think of “cons” ... they make a space look smaller & they show everything! The gym that I work out in has black floors .... they are constantly vacuuming them ... like a black car , they look good the first day you have it washed & then ....

They will show everything!

Our son and daughter in law re-did their floor with black tile - beautiful! With 4 small children it does show every little piece of 'anything' that's on the floor. With that said I'm the type of person that if I love something enough then it's definitely worth the effort I need to put into it. Only you can decide that. But their tile is gorgeous;)

My floors aren'tblack but they are stained concrete which is dark. They show specks of things but unless you are working in a construction site your shoes aren't going to be that dirty. I don't mop or sweep everyday and they are fine. Super easy maintenance and durability. Now a solid color of anything would be the problem. So If you go datk make sure you have a texture or some mottling. These are my floors after being redone.

Unglazed, matt vitrified porcelain in a mid toned colour will hide almost anything. Even better, go for a patterned tile.

There are pros to a black floor????

Something with a mottled charcoal appearance like some black slates aren’t as bad as a pure black. But you do need to pay extra attention to the lighting plan.

If you are interested in having a darker tile floor versus light, try in the gray family. Like the other comments above, the black tile will show more dirt and inconsistencies. You can also pick a dark tile that is more patterned. See some of our examples below for inspiration!

This is the only photo I have right now of my Charcoal floors... that is my powder room (the tempered glass vessel sink spontaneously exploded... has been replaced with a stone composite vessel sink) Its pretty dark imo, but not a true black. The texture is just enough to help hide stuff, but not so much that dirt gets caught up in it.

Also, the white powdery stuff you see is the glass dust from when the sink exploded. White powdery stuff hasn't been a common problem otherwise... though I don't have this floor in my kitchen, I could see that being more of an issue there.

@skmom I'm sorry to bother you, I noticed your exploded sink looks exactly like one I was about to buy. By any chance could you please help? If you have time I would be so grateful if you could send me a picture of the sink before the explosion please?

Marian, if you don't get a reply, you may want to google 'exploding glass sinks' so you can make a decision on what to avoid. Or start your own new post.

@ Marian Baker, I’m sorry, I don’t have a before photo. It was a Vigo brand sink, but I’m sorry to say that brand name is not actually important. Unfortunately, spontaneously exploding tempered glass sinks happen no matter the brand as I discovered. It’s not something most people would know about, but it’s not super uncommon. It can also happen with tempered glass shower doors and the like. The most common theory is that during the manufacturing process they can get cooled down too quickly and it causes a problem waiting to happen and if your glass product got cooled down too fast, it will eventually explode... no way to tell until it suddenly happens. In my case, I was in the room when I happened... most cases you read about it happens in the middle of the night or something and nobody is next to it. It exploded mere inches away from my head as I was bending over replacing a trash bag in the can, I was not touching the sink at all. I was ok, aside from some bloody scratches... not because the glass was sharp because it’s tempered and it shatters into small, smooth pebble like pieces... but because the force of the explosion was so great that the pieces tried to imbed themselves into my skin. We found a lot of glass some 20 feet away, my head was about 8” away when it blew, I thought a gun had been fired next to me at first. Fortunately my hair shielded my eyes as I was bent over, that could’ve caused some real damage. We contacted Vigo, as well as the... oh, I can’t think of it off the top of my head, the government agency that issues recalls and they sent out a representative to investigate, and we even had our local news station do a story on it. Vigo was great once we got past the initial representative on the phone the first time we called (he was a jerk) but Vigo offered to replace our sink with any sink from any of their lines, and because I refused to replace it with another glass sink, they suggested a sink from one of their composite stone sink lines. It was a much more expensive sink, and we had to wait a bit because the size we needed was backordered, but I’m very pleased with how Vigo handled the situation after all. But I would NEVER get a glass vessel sink again. There are no industry standard laws for making them like there are for many other glass products (like a car windshield) most manufacturers abide by some voluntary Canadian standards which seem fine but are not enough apparently. Anyways, you can google exploding glass vessel sinks and you can read up on other stories like mine... not something we knew about when we bought ours. I’d never buy glass again, no matter how gorgeous I think many of them are.

My gosh I'm so sorry to hear about your experience! So lucky that you didn't suffer more than you did. Thank you so much for your reply and advice. I've looked into it and indeed it doesn't seem to be worth the risk. How scary!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md>Kelly... did you ever do a black floor?

I ask as I’m in the process of doing my entire home in 24” x 24” polished black porcelain tile.