Flooring Transitions

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

I’m doing a small scale update and am conflicted with flooring considerations. I currently have carpeting in my living and dining room and linoleum in my kitchen. There is also a light pergo in my foyer and connecting hall to the kitchen. What flooring should I consider for the living, dining, and kitchen? I was going to combine the same flooring in kitchen and dining room but didn’t know how to properly separate the living room without it now appearing to be too small. Would it get cut off right at that trimmed opening? I don’t want to knock walls down. I’m also not a fan of putting down the same floor in the living room just to buy an expensive rug to cover it up. I like carpeting in a living room and was wondering if I should just replace the carpet in the two existing carpeted rooms. Also, the kitchen is going to get new appliances, granite tops and flooring so maybe the flooring in that room won’t need to be the same as the others after all.

Sketch of Floor Plan

Foyer to LR

LR to DR

DR to Kitchen

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partim
6 years ago
When we renovated we put carpet in the living and dining rooms, and tile elsewhere. We had a person using a wheelchair in the house at the time and hardwood was not an option.
SJ McCarthy
6 years ago
What is the pattern of the Pergo laminate? Is it 'wood look'?
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Lynne Macey
Original Author
6 years ago
Yes...it’s a light oak colored wood look plank.
Buehl
6 years ago
Hardwood (or Pergo) in Dining Room and Kitchen and, if you prefer, carpet in the Living Room. I would definitely get rid of the carpeting in the Dining Room as carpet can be stained from food and is not easily cleaned.
SJ McCarthy
6 years ago
OK...design faux pas #1...do NOT mix your 'fake' products. As in, do NOT put in a DIFFERENT laminate/vinyl in the carpeted areas if you ALREADY have a fake product (Pergo) that will run up against them.

Here's what I would do:

1. Replace carpeting AND pergo with the SAME floor. Continuity is the key.

2. Replace the flooring in the kitchen WHEN you do a kitchen refresh. Until then, leave it be.

My biggest piece of advice is to set out a RENOVATION plan. You will create a story board for the FINISHED look of your home. You will take 2 weeks to gather colour samples, swatches, etc of things you WANT your home to take in. The product themselves is not important. The COLOURS and IDEAS you create with your story board are the MOST IMPORTANT thing you could do for your budget.

As much as you like carpet in a living room, you have TOO MANY floors going on. The idea is to simplify or STREAMLINE the amount of floors in your house. Gone are the days were 'theme rooms' were 'totally cool man'. Elvis' Jungle Room has left the building.

I would figure out what my kitchen will look like. And what COLOUR of flooring TILE you want in there. I would then sit down and figure out what FLOORING will go in the REST of the space (with the idea of removing the Pergo).

It would be VERY simple to get your house into the TWO FLOORS area. The tile in the kitchen (or the sheet product...whatever floats your boat) can be used in the POWDER ROOM. The rest of the space gets the wood-look product you want.

Done like dinner. So long as you figure out your END colour scheme, you can move ahead with the purchase/work as you see fit.

Without the end goal, you will forever fight the design 'dead end' you chose the last time you did something to the home. It is a never ending cycle of renovate 'this' to 'match that'...only to find out your 'plan' doesn't work so no you have to change "that" to match 'this'.
Lynne Macey thanked SJ McCarthy