Help with floor colors
Kathleen Spero
16 days ago
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Help picking flooring color and paint color
Comments (8)Wow, the lighting is so different in those photos, I had to scroll back and forth just to see if that's the same room! I love your choices, especially the pale blue backsplash tile. I love lighter colors (though your island is really pretty). I would go with a really blonde-looking floor, though obviously there are many directions you could go. I think you probably want to be done and over with anything with that red tone. So, I like a pale golden floor, probably an oil wax finish to get a really matte look. I can't possibly tell in those tiny thumbnail photos what the tones of the floor will be--you're going to need to order a box of what you like and lay it out in your room before you decide. It's a small cost but worth it to be certain....See MoreHelp With Flooring Color - Paradigm Trinity!
Comments (4)I would say this is a "straight colour swap". In other words the VINYL floor is almost IDENTICAL to the existing carpet. It is a "like for like" switch. You won't have to "imagine" the COLOUR....because it already exists throughout the living area. Your coffee table is almost identical in colour as well. It seems this colour is something you are drawn to. That's not a bad thing. It just is. Be assured the COLOUR will work nicely with what you have (because you already have it...see how easy this is;-). That's the easy part.The thing you MUST BE AWARE OF is the CHARACTER of the wood-look vinyl. In a small swatch, I'm seeing LONG "splits" and several knot holes. You MUST ASSUME that EVERY PLANK will have this level of character! As long as you are after that sort of look, you will be fine. You will WANT to change the look of the STAIRS. Be prepared for a bit of a clash between the white-washed wood-look vinyl to the "golden oak" colour the stairs currently show. The stairs work with what you have now because the beige colour is CARPET. It looks nice. But as soon as you move to a wood-look product you will see the clash. Some white paint on the risers (or off white to match the vinyl planks) and on the stringers and the spindles will go a LONG WAY to getting the stairs to look like they belong with the floor. It isn't a huge deal...I personally would leave it for a while to see if I could live with it. But be prepared that sometime in the future you may want to fix it up to get it to be more harmonious....See MoreHelp choosing flooring color
Comments (19)"Shead, the price for real wood would mean we'd have to take out the laminate, plus the tile underneath it, and then prep the floor with a moisture barrier. Then the price per square foot for wood is a couple of dollars higher than the laminate. So, it would be almost double the price, and we have a pool, so we have to deal with water being tracked in, and the the flooring would be in the kitchen where my husband and 1.5 year old constantly splatter/spill water." I see. Removing tile is a PITA. We've only installed LVT over concrete or subfloor in applications where we needed a true budget flooring (DH did the install in a basement and in a mobile home on our farm). Is it safe to install over laminate that's bubbling and pealing. DH's aunt installed it over tile so I know that's fine....See MoreNeed urgent help with floor color
Comments (12)I don't love either of your samples. I would also never make a selection based on that tiny sample. Bring more samples home. Once you have narrowed it down to 2 colors, you should then order a box of each and lay them out in your home. Your flooring supplier should place a hold on enough flooring from each color, so that when you pick the box you like best, you are actually getting the same lot # for the whole order. Yes, you won't be able to return the box you rejected, but that is a small cost, compared to ordering and installing a whole house of new floors and realizing that you hate it and it looked nothing like the tiny sample you had used to pick the floor....See Moremillworkman
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