Coretec by US Floors has stone look LVT available.

Click HERE to check out their styles. You can lay this product directly over your current sheet vinyl.

Thank you Judy. If you look at the first picture, you will see a white strip on the floor near the stove. That is white duct tape I had to put down because the floor split apart after our kitchen flooded. There are other places where the floor has lifted and we catch our toes on it now and then and the chairs won't slide under the table.

No, I didn’t see the blemishes. Time to rip it up.

Yeppers!

I have been interested in this product, (a friend has it in her family room and loves it). It may be your. answer. Patterns and colors are interesting.

https://www.greenbuildingsupply.com/Forbo-Marmoleum-Striato?faux=28006&gclid=CjwKCAjwp7baBRBIEiwAPtjwxMnHOYGHgyejUDRV-wZPP1J3Tu9IkT0E8ffE4T0qqwQ9J_98c8nEXxoCWOEQAvD_BwE

There are so many things that you can use for a kitchen floor, but most are expensive to buy/install. Bottom line is kitchen floors need lots of cleaning. We should make it easy on ourselves and by something attractive, but doesn’t require lots of elbow grease to clean.

In a past house I had a vinyl tile in my laundry room which resembled linen. I received so many compliments on it. I bet the floor in the second photo would be a good companion for your wood floors.

It sounds like the sheet vinyl has to go. And the SUBSTRATE underneath as well (probably particle board). A flood that is enough to SPLIT sheet vinyl and cause humps tall enough to stub a toe is PRETTY serious. Everything screams out "redo" with relaying substrate (the layer sitting UNDERNEATH the vinyl).

The preparation will add $2/sf onto your budget...at least. So you will need to find out your TOTAL budget (final tally including labour and all materials). You can work backwards from there.

I would suggest another sheet product if you are unable to find a stone-look LVT "in your budget". These are specialty products in a specialty format sold from specialty lines. With, you guessed it, "specialty" pricing (ie. expensive). You can get the same look (stone or tile) from a sheet product.

The subfloor preparation will be the same, but the final labour bill and material bill for the sheet product will be MUCH less. If you want something more authentic looking, there are glue-down vinyl tiles that can be "grouted" (don't have to be) to look like stone/tile. Armstrong sells them. Again, specialty product, blah, blah, blah.

The marmoleum (listed above) is an OUTSTANDING product....with an OUTSTANDING price tag. Marmoleum (real linoleum) is a higher priced/valued product than vinyl. In fact vinyl flooring was invented as a "budget alternative" for linoleum. It was flooring for the masses....because the masses couldn't afford marmoleum/linoleum.

It isn't sheet vinyl. It's an older floating laminate.

Can you do real stone tile? Or porcelain stone-look tile? Or maybe just scrap all the existing flooring and redo the whole area with LVT in wood look.

What's the floating laminate on top of? Maybe it will be something that you like that can be cleaned or refinished (if hardwood) if the previous owners installed it.

If you installed it, then you know what's underneath :)

@Chelle, most sheet vinyl is glue down, some are floating.
A floating sheet vinyl would need to come up. A glue down vinyl, if installed good, can stay in place with a floating product on top of it. If there are areas that the glue down vinyl is coming up, it's best to tear it all out.

The subfloor seems to have swollen with flooding as SJ Mccarthy noted. Most likely it has to come up.

I have a Mohawk LVT in my kitchen and laundry room that was installed after a leak in our concrete slab was repaired two years ago. The tiles are 12x24 inches and look like stone. It is a very easy floor to maintain, and is easy on the knees, legs and back.

Do you have pictures to share?

Please make suggestions for floor color. Initially I thought a light colored LVT plank but now I'm thinking about a gray slate-look LVT. Thoughts?

Did you take up the existing floor yet?

I don't know if I would personally like a gray floor with golden oak cabinets and the light color flooring in your living room, but that's just my personal preference.

Mohawk has stone look LVT in a couple of different lines of their flooring. The Lasting Allure line has a couple that might work for you - grey mist or almond spice. They have an option to find a dealer near you, too.

I will try to add a picture of our kitchen floor, but I haven't done that before so don't be surprised if they don't show up. The tile that we used has been discontinued, but we have a box and a half of extras. I would suggest buying some extras because the manufacturers usually discontinue colors after 18-24 months it seems. The flooring we have looks like it did when installed two years ago, and cleans easily with Once and Done cleaner.

Good luck, and I hope you find something you really like.

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I would go with a rigid LVP product which is more forgiving of subfloor imperfections within reason. Modin Rigid is waterproof and has an industry high 40 mil wear layer and costs $4/SF. Next best probably is Coretec, which has more finishes but not as thick of a wear layer.

I'm designed challenged. Color suggestions welcomed.

Will you be doing a glue down floor or a floating floor? Mannington Adura has some pretty vinyl tile in glue down that can be grouted and also a floating locksolid product. There are installation videos on the Mannington website if you are going to DIY your flooring. I would look for something that will look good with your oak cabinets and oak color flooring in the living room. There are some in the Adura and in the Mohawk that have the golden color along with shades of brown and gray. I would not put down a wood look floor since you have the wood look laminate in the living room.

Armstrong and Congoleum also have some pretty vinyl as do others that have been mentioned. Only you know what your budget will be for new flooring, and you may have to have subfloor replaced if it's plywood. If it's concrete, hopefully you won't have much to do since you have had laminate there. Is your kitchen laminate glued down or floating?

You might also consider sheet vinyl. I know Mannington has some pretty ones, and I'm sure the others do also. My suggestion is to go to several websites and look at what's available, and then see if any flooring dealers near you carry what you like.