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Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 16:33
| I should begin by saying how much I am enjoying this forum community, and how helpful it has been to us in planning our new kitchen. We have a mid sized ranch, 2,300 square foot. or new kitchen will be 12.5 x 20 feet. Since we are removing walls and opening up the entire main living area, we will be making the den, formal dining room and entry foyer all one space, with the kitchen at the far end to the right. Entry foyer is centered. We looked at much flooring, with the following concerns: 1) We are on a concrete slab. 2) We have multiple dogs, 3) the dogs love to play in the back yard and we always have mulch, rocks and toys all over the kitchen. Yes, the door to the back yard is in the kitchen. So, we want to make the entire area one floor type, spill and scratch resistant, not too cold on the feet, (we are in New jersey), dog water bowls proof. We are leaning towards Karndean LVT, from their DaVinci collection. 48 inch long wood plank, beveled edges. Has anyone used this on their projects? Cost is very high, higher than laminate, higher than many true hard woods. But a 20 year scratch and dent warranty.......water proof too. it s a glue down. thanks for any feedback! |
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- Posted by maries1120 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 16:54
| We went through considering every type of flooring for our kitchen, entry, hall and bath and in the end chose LVT. Definitely not cheap. We got the Mannington Adura because we finally found the color and design we liked in that brand. This is glued down and grouted. Not long enough to say how it will wear but it survived them moving the appliances in and out with a dolly. We have a dog and also didn't want anything too cold. Unless you get down and touch it, ours looks like ceramic tile. We thought about a wood look but too hard to find one we liked with wood cabinets. We did find one we liked in Pergo XP (laminate) and my tests on that (including soaking it in water) made me think that would be a good option too. It would definitely have been cheaper. |
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