Very light LVP flooring?

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

We are thinking of redoing the flooring in a 2500 sq foot condo. The rooms have a variety of colors - all rooms have Navajo White walls except the great room and long hall with BM Citrine (light gold that shows badly on all monitors apparently - even swatches are different colors from each other on my monitor). Three bedrooms - one navy and white, one mint and black, one coral and yellow - all will look fine on most light floors/I can make that work. (Currently have a just off white flat weave with a bit of brown fleck and looks great, so I'm guessing I can find hard surface that works.)

What I can't make work so far is the great room - we like the current paint colors (and it will be expensive to repaint/it doesn't need it). We bought it turnkey/furnished so are continuing to replace furniture - the couch and chair will go in near term but everything else will likely stay for a while. The large red valance is already gone but I don't have a pic without it.

Knowing that we don't want anything resembling honey oak or it's friends, and really want something light - what would you suggest? Totally appreciate any and all thoughts and help!

(If we do replace the floors, the banister will also be replaced with something metal and more modern/transitional)

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eld6161
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Your house has a beach vibe. Are you in the south? We just did Coretec LVP in Hayes Oak. It reminds me if drift wood.
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SJ McCarthy
5 years ago
If you replace the floors MAKE SURE you replace the current HIGH VALUE tile with more HIGH VALUE tile. If you have 2500sf of floor space, that means you have 2500sf of TILE. Tile costs are (roughly) $15-$18/sf (includes materials and labour). That means the amount you PAID for the flooring (all balled up into a document called, Right of Ownership) is:

2500sf x $15/sf (or $18/sf) = $37,500 to $45,000 (if the entire house was tiled)

Your actual square footage that has tile on it can be substituted into the equation (remove the 2500sf and replace with ACTUAL square feet in tile).

I would NOT remove tile to be replaced with a lower value product like LVT. Right now your public areas have high-end product. That's fine. I would leave it. The question becomes what to do with the REST (bedrooms)?
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Emily Peltz
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks for the input so far.

eld6161 - yes, SW Florida, about 10 minutes from the beach :). The bedrooms are even more beachy than this shows. Thanks for the suggestion.

SJ McCarthy - you have a good eye. Yes - it's travertine in the great room. BUT (and it's a big one) the hall and kitchen are 12x12 ceramic, and no transition to the travertine. The dining room is yet a different 12x12 ceramic - it coordinates pretty well, but was laid incorrectly and has no transition either. The travertine (which was there when we bought it) also has some big "flaws" in spots we can't cover. (Ok - maybe part of the variation but no one who has seen it would have accepted them....) We had to replace the bedroom carpet so we put down "looks nice/inexpensive while we decide further". Your estimate is about right to low on 'all tile' - about 1500 sq feet of tile to take out, then 2500 to put down - which is why we are talking about LVP.

So - a few options now that we're this far into the story:

* Leave carpet in the bedrooms, and tile the rest. My husband would likely prefer this. We're from the north and he just can.not.imagine hard surface flooring in the bedrooms. Of course, it's a split plan layout, and 3 bathrooms. If we do this we then have to decide if bathrooms match common area (probably yes)...and find hard surface that works with the carpet (probably doable). Still probably $20k+ since we'd have to remove existing and redo.

* Bite the bullet and put hard surfaces everywhere now - whether tile or LVP. Part of the issue is that, while we aren't looking to sell in the foreseeable future, we would not likely get the money out from tile vs LVP.

* Leave it as it is for a while. I'd like to decide now as we're redoing the master bathroom in the next six months (starting to get design work now) and if we're putting hard surface down I'd like it to be the same we're putting elsewhere. If we decide to keep carpet in the bedrooms it's less of an issue - can't see master bath from anywhere but our room and this may be where we end up. But if for some reason there was an LVP we love, it might sway us away from this.

Again - really appreciate the insights and looking forward to more of them -
Christine R
5 years ago
I live in Florida and I think LVT is a great choice here. Easy to clean. Less slippery when people come in after using the pool. The podiatrist I went to said tile floors are ruining our feet.
Emily Peltz
Original Author
5 years ago
Christine - I think LVT is becoming more of an 'acceptable or better' choice in Florida. A prior poster mentioned that we paid for the 'good' tile in our purchase price - that's actually not totally true. When we were looking at places to buy, we were surprised that similar units were priced the same whether the great room was carpeted (in builder grade carpet, frequently), tiled inexpensively, or tiled nicely. Ditto for dining room/den which was often carpeted in builder grade.