Choosing the right flooring for your kitchen is crucial as it can set the tone for the rest of the room, but it also has to be functional in a way that almost no other room’s floor has to be. This is why you need to take your time over choosing your kitchen flooring to ensure it’s exactly what you want. You can create an entire kitchen around the look of the floor, so it’s well worth getting this right, even if it takes longer to choose than you might think it would at first. With this in mind, here are some things to think about and look for to help you get your kitchen flooring right.

The Look

There isn’t one thing to look for when it comes to your kitchen flooring that is more important than any others, but the look of the flooring you choose will be a crucial decision to make, nonetheless. That’s because before you can even think about safety or durability, you’ll need to like how the kitchen floor looks. If you don’t, it won’t matter how great it is in other ways, you’re never going to fully settle for it, and you might have to change it sooner rather than later.

Think about the color and the texture of the flooring you like best. Kitchen floor tiles come in a wide array of designs, so there will be something you like the look of when you start to search around. Once you’ve found a few styles that work for you, you can start to look at the other ideas on this list and narrow down the options to help you make a final choice.

Comfort

Comfort isn’t something we might always associate with flooring, whether it’s in the kitchen or elsewhere, but when you think about it, you’ll see that it’s actually more important than it might initially seem. After all, you’ll generally spend a lot of time standing in the kitchen, more so than in any other room in the house where you’ll often be sitting or lying down. Therefore, the floor beneath your feet needs to be comfortable to stand on while you’re cooking, cleaning, or chatting with friends and family.

To make the flooring more comfortable, you can consider installing cushioned underlay, but this will add to the cost, so it’s important to have a budget in place to account for the floor and any extras you might want.

Durability

As we’ve said, the kitchen is often the busiest room in the house, and people will be walking up and down on the flooring you choose all day, every day. We might use the bathroom first in the morning and last thing at night, but we’re not in there for long, and it’s the kitchen that sees the bulk of our time.

So the flooring used has to be durable. If people are walking around on it, it has to withstand that and not fade or wear down. This (as well as for hygiene reasons) is why carpet is never a good idea in a kitchen, although you might choose to have a rug under a kitchen table to add warmth and coziness.

Author

Northern girl Laura is the epitome of a true entrepreneur. Laura’s spirit for adventure and passion for people blaze through House of Coco. She founded House of Coco in 2014 and has grown it in to an internationally recognised brand whilst having a lot of fun along the way. Travel is in her DNA and she is a true visionary and a global citizen.

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