The Perfect Kitchen Flooring: What To Look Out For

Finding the perfect kitchen flooring is an exciting task. There is a plethora of flooring types to choose from but selecting the right one for your home is essential.

Whether you’re taking on a full kitchen renovation or you’re just re-vamping your existing space, your kitchen flooring choice should depend on your lifestyle, sense of style, and budget. Flooring that looks great may not function well for your family and your home. Go beyond just looks when doing your research.

Laminate

Your kitchen is the heart of the home. We have a gravitational pull towards it — our go-to place for almost everything. With that in mind, it is no surprise that this room undergoes a lot of wear and tear. Laminate kitchen flooring is a popular choice due to its hard-wearing nature, easy installation and affordability.

It is also worth noting that more recent laminate flooring emulates real wood exceptionally well, with a lot of people failing to spot the difference between the two. And unlike natural wood, laminate flooring will last a lot longer, saving you the hassle of replacing it often. So, if you are on a budget or your household tends to be quite full, then laminate flooring may be a suitable choice.

To add, some people like to mix and match their kitchen flooring. For example, if you have a separate utility room then you may want to consider laminate as it will provide you with extra confidence with accidental washing machine leaks. For your main kitchen space, you may want to choose a more premium flooring such as engineered wood.

Engineered Wood Flooring

Engineered wood flooring has many benefits like that of laminate, but with one extra feature; it can add long-term value to your property. It creates an attractive element to residential and commercial properties. When considering your kitchen flooring, quality is key, and with engineered wood, it won’t fail you.

It can resist fluctuations in temperature and humidity due to 2 or 3-layers construction, which ensures strength and stability. It does, however, tend to sit in a higher price bracket, but is still a less-expensive alternative to natural wood flooring.

Baelea Flooring

Exclusive to flooring village, Baelea is a high-quality range of laminate, created by us, using over 25 years of flooring knowledge. It comes with a host of benefits such as high durability, and splash and scratch resistant which makes it ideal for any family home. It is also suitable for underfloor heating — an important factor to consider.

As a Flooring Village own-brand flooring, we offer lifetime guarantee, giving you one less thing to worry about should anything happen. After-all, kitchens undergo a fair amount of deterioration so it’s always best to prepare for accidents in advance.

Luxury Vinyl Tile Flooring

Designed to look like real oak plank flooring or marble, stone or slate. Vinyl plank flooring is ideal for heavy traffic areas like hallways, kitchens, or bathrooms. Click LVT flooring is very easy to install, without the need for glue.

One major factor to consider — it’s waterproof. You’re going to have countless spills and accidents in the kitchen – especially if you have little ones – it’s inevitable! A lot of kitchen flooring can be splash proof. However, being waterproof will provide you with extra security, subsequently meaning longer lasting floors.

Vinyl floor tiles come in two different types: vinyl tile click flooring is a free-floating floor, while dryback LVT flooring is glued to the subfloor. Both dryback and click luxury vinyl floor tiles have advantages. If you would like to discuss this in more detail, contact us for a friendly chat.

Choosing The Right Kitchen Floor for You

Whether you would prefer a more hardwearing, durable floor that you don’t have to worry too much about, such as man-made floors, or you are happy to live with the nuances that come with owning a natural floor, decide which of the above options would best suit your lifestyle and you can’t go wrong.