kitchen floor

If the floor is staying certainly no grey island, but why would you want to chip up tile and install new flooring after putting in a brand new kitchen? Of course it can be done but there is so much risk involved.

thanks, I completely agree with the flooring… we are considering changing the floor as well- it’s a lot of area to change - walk in pantry, laundry room, kitchen, coat closet… so let’s say we change the floor as well- what are your recommendation? Actually, my KD showed me a kitchen they did all white using the same material with the exact same floor and it didn’ look that bad that’s why we thought if doing it later.

@HALLETT & Co.Thanks. If i am changing the floor then we will do it all at once. The floor need cleaning .. it’s much lighter than in the picture.

There is nothing 'wrong' with the floor- it is a neutral natural stone (that unfortunately got waaaay overused in the 90's 00's) but the kitchen as designed doesn't seem to go with the floor at all. Regarding a new floor, generally that is chosen in concert with other finishes throughout the home, and the current trend is one floor throughout the house so the easy answer is extend the floors from the public rooms into this area and design the kitchen around that.

better view of the floor

No grays with those floors ... you end up with a pink and blue look.

We removed thousands of sq ft of santillo tile in our previous house. Here is some of it on part of the house on a slab. Removal is noisy, messy and dusty.

Is this what you want to happen in your new kitchen?

@chispa thanks, this is exactly what I don’t want

@HALLETT & Co. my KD recommended putting LV floors on top of it. He said it is only 1/4 inch thick and won’t notice, but our current subfloor is too thick so there is a drop to other rooms that has access from kitchen ( family room, dining and foyer) so we don’t want to add on top. It is not the cost of changing, but the mess/noise is what is putting me off

What is the floor in the rest of the house? it’s not terrible so if you want to leave it i think you need to match to it. I also wouldn’t do a modern waterfall with that floor!

as for kitchen design i would want a bit more space to the left of the range. usually 15” recommended minimum i believe. the cab to counter next to dw would make me nervous— that’s where i set things to dry so woukd be worried about water damage. i’d also need some space for coffee pot, etc etc.

@lharpie rest of the house is wood flooring. My currebt oven is 27 ” and cooktop is 30”. none of the manufactures that we considered are making the 27” inch oven so I had to buy 30 and the cook top is 36” so there is only 12” clearance on the left of the oven and plenty on the right side

the cabinet you are referring to is supposedly for the coffee area ( but with covered doors), but i had already asked the KD to open it up and have both upper cabinets at same height

Thanks everyone for your input. We decided to change the floors. I had a flooring contractor come out to give estimate for removal and installing new wood floor, tile or LVP. Should i go with wood or tile? There are so many choices… what color flooring do you recommend for an all white modern kitchen?

Thanks!!

@lharpie Thanks for pointing out the space between oven and stove. I currently have 18” and the new one was significantly less in the original plan. We have changed to 15” now!

Black slate tile or site-finished hardwood would be my choices, but I tire of color and pattern super quickly. If you like color, you could do a fun marmoleum.

Match the wood from the rest of the house… no lvp if you have real wood adjacent.

Agree, match the existing hardwood. LVP=NO.

flooring dilemma! the floor in our family room that is next to kitchen is Brazilian walnut ( a bit like dark brown ) which complemented the kitchen tiles. The other side of kitchen ( you only see a small area of that wood from the kitchen) is red oak floor that is turning a bit orangish. We will refinish that area later. They can almost match my family room floor color, but I don’t want that dark color in the kitchen. If I go with wood in the kitchen - it will be different color of wood ( eventually the first floor will have same color wood and kitchen will be tile) so we are thinking of going with tile. What color will look good? and size- 12x24? is diagonal better? I was thinking something similar to these color tiles (pics from Houzz ) My family room floor is almost like the last picture ( similar to where the light is shining)

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