When you are looking to purchase flooring, what do you look for, Style or Quality? For me, it all depends on what project I am working on. This house I am working on is a rental house but I want it to look nice and last for a while.
When I am replacing my home floors or for a house I am going to resell, I go for Quality and Style! The Kitchen is one floor you don't want to skimp on. I love wood flooring or tile flooring in the kitchen. Make sure you do your homework before buying. Don't just fall in love with the looks of the flooring and then later realize that the flooring was made poorly.
With the flooring I used for this rental house, I went to Home Depot and purchased Traffic Master stick down tiles. I know they don't call them "stick down tiles" but that is my little nick name I use. I like the brand Traffic Masters because they are a much thicker tile and holds up to heavy traffic just like the brand name suggest. Some other brand tiles maybe cheaper but they are much thinner and easily tear.
There is a proper way to lay this flooring. Don't worry it is much simpler than you might think. I will dicuss this later and have pictures to help illustrate how this is done.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
How I Replaced My Kitchen Flooring
This kitchen has been work in process for some time now. We are about to lay down the new flooring but so much had to be done to prepare before we could lay the floor down.
First of all, I decided to paint the walls and cabinets. The walls were a beautiful bright yellow color..YUCK! So we changed the color to beige and did the trim in white. This took some time to cover up. Then I painted the cabinets white to match the trim. I wanted to get all the painting down so I would not mess up the new floors.
The entire kitchen is being redone. We are replacing the countertops and sink. So I want to make sure all the colors are going to match and have the look I am going after. We are purchasing the new flooring tomorrow. We have decided to go with the stick down tiles instead of the linoleum. When talking to the flooring dealer in our area, he told us because our diminsions were 8x15 and to buy linoleum on the roll would come 12x?, so we would be wasting a lot of material. It was actually cheaper for us to purchase the stick down tiles that you would find at Home Depot or Lowe's. Since this house is not for resale value purposes we are going to us the tiles.
First of all, I decided to paint the walls and cabinets. The walls were a beautiful bright yellow color..YUCK! So we changed the color to beige and did the trim in white. This took some time to cover up. Then I painted the cabinets white to match the trim. I wanted to get all the painting down so I would not mess up the new floors.
The entire kitchen is being redone. We are replacing the countertops and sink. So I want to make sure all the colors are going to match and have the look I am going after. We are purchasing the new flooring tomorrow. We have decided to go with the stick down tiles instead of the linoleum. When talking to the flooring dealer in our area, he told us because our diminsions were 8x15 and to buy linoleum on the roll would come 12x?, so we would be wasting a lot of material. It was actually cheaper for us to purchase the stick down tiles that you would find at Home Depot or Lowe's. Since this house is not for resale value purposes we are going to us the tiles.
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