Flooring advice

6 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

We have porcelain wood-look tile in the main areas (center) of our house. The bedrooms and bathrooms and one hallway are on the east and west sides of the house and all have mismatched floors. Our first choice was to use the porcelain wood-look tile throughout the rest of the house but we found out it is discontinued by the manufacturer.

My husband would really like to have a maximum of only two different floors in the house. In the picture, Floor A is what we already have. Floor B is the tile that my husband likes - it has a trace amount of brown so he thinks it compliments Floor A well enough. I just feel like it is too

different and doesn’t compliment it at all.

Do you guys have any suggestions? I asked a “flooring expert” via a virtual consultation and he gave me floors that “almost” matched but in our opinion, it looked like it would feel forced and look obvious that we ran out of Floor A. I would love to find something that compliments Floor A but is different enough that it looks like we did it on purpose.

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SJ McCarthy
5 years ago
Match the colour. If you can't find the identical stuff (sigh...we see this all the time...man-made products have a shelf life of 18 months and then they are gone) then go with a COLOUR match.

Remember: as many as 30% of males have some form of colour blindness. I'm always concerned when I see two TOTALLY different colours (such as your photo shows) sitting side by side with the statement, "My husband/GC/contractor/Boyfriend/son thinks they go nicely together."

It's almost impossible to get a worse combination than the one's in your photo. I don't mean to insult anyone, but these colours are not one's I would willing put together. Not even let them sit together in a closet, let alone add them to my house as 25 year floors.

Please work with the orange tones and not the gray tones. I'm guessing the husband is liking the smooth, easy grain of the gray one.

And go ahead and see if there are some colours missing in his eye sight. How you do this without ending up with a flustered husband I don't know. I've yet to find the right questions for mine ;-)
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