Vinyl is plastic so yeah it looks ‘cheap’ compared to real wood. Vinyl scratches pretty easily and can’t be touched up like any real wood product. You also have the transition strips with vinyl from room to room….like your photo shows. I know vinyl is done all the time but it really irks me and I don’t think it will stand the test of time like a real wood floor.

Have you seen this product in real life?

Yeah, vinyl is plastic. It will always look plastic.

Real hardwood is extremely durable and will hold up for years and years and years. It can be refinished to look brand spanking new when it’s 75+ years old.

Site finished, not engineered, is about as durable as you can get. Look at all the hundred year old and older homes that still have the original wood floors. Lumber today isn't as good quality because it's not old growth, but it still will beat every other flooring (except maybe stone or tile). Today's finishes are also very durable.

Vinyl flooring is plastic and horrible for the environment. Not only is it made from petroleum products, it off-gasses and eventually ends up in a landfill where it will NEVER decompose.

I can！But it’s really well done and looks great! Do you mind sharing which brand it is?

@phoebe Sang The blogger said the flooring’s from Vellichor Floors.

I can't comment on the floor you showed but I do think it looks beautiful... I would agree tat wood in most forms is preferable to vinyl. However, I did get vinyl planks on my first floor,have had it for about 4 years and have no scratches. I was worried about that because we are not gentle people and have a 70 lb dog and 4 active grandkids. The vinyl flooring honestly looks as good today as it did when it was first put down. I do not have it on stairs.

Vinyl is soft underfoot and kinder to knees and joints. It is warmer to the touch, and things dropped on it are less likely to break (okay, that only matters in a kitchen). Sheet vinyl is more waterproof than individual planks. It's also easy to keep clean.

Will it look like hardwood /feel like hardwood if you bend over and touch it? No, but it also won't cost like hardwood. But consider that when you cover a portion of the floor with rugs and fill the room with furniture, it won't "show" as much as it does now in an empty room.

Sending it to a landfill when its life is over IS a real concern, but -- for the price difference -- it could probably be replaced twice before you'd hit the initial cost of hardwood. Yes, hardwood can be refinished, but that is a lot of trouble (moving furniture, etc.) and real money.

Vinyl floor lasts too. I have the original 1970 sheet vinyl in my office, and it's starting to look a little worn at the seam. On the other hand, the sheet vinyl in my kitchen was installed in 1984, and it's in perfect condition.

I have had site-finished hardwood, engineered wood, LVP in a wood look plank, and currently have sheet vinyl in my laundry room. They all have a distinct list of pros and cons. There are things I like about each of those choices, and there are things which are drawbacks. There is no perfect flooring. Get what you like, that you can reasonably afford, and that works in your home in a way that appeals to you.

The sheet vinyl is the world's most non-offensive grey tile pattern, and is from when the house was built in 2003. This house is at the beach, and we have dogs. That floor has sand all over it, wet nasty dogs get bathed in a sink in that room - and the floor is pristine. It looks the same as the day it was installed. I like it. Out of all my flooring choices in my decades of my life, the sheet vinyl is the only one that has never let me down. It doesn't try to be anything other than what it is, and it does that job very well.

Looks like cheap vinyl to me. But, I have lived with real hardwood floors all of my life - in one house they were 170 years old. So vinyl will always look tacky to me.

I just bought a condo with vinyl floors. They are ridiculous. But, the place was cheap...

Compared to the more common ones of every plank a different shade, weathered looking and so forth, yes this is better looking.

I think there are some environments that something like this is preferable to wood. I think something like this would be nice in healthcare environments and some other commercial applications where you wanted something a little ''warmer".

@palimpsest - Healthcare environments. You nailed it. This totally reminds me of a hospital room floor I had after surgery.

It can all be warmed up and fixed with area rugs.