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hallway / kitchen flooring question?
as you walk into the house, there is the foyer then a hallway into the kitchen. does the flooring in the foyer need to match the flooring in the kitchen? we've been told that it's best not to "break" the flooring in the hallway in order to have a different flooring the in the kitchen. we wanted to install laminate floors throughout the downstairs, except for the kitchen. but you can see the kitchen down the hallway when you walk into the front door. will this look bad? i mean laminate as in laminate wood / pergo
Public Comments
- we have friends who built a house - very pricey - but they paid for ceramic tile in the foyer and hall and then laid linoleum down in the kitchen to save money. it looks cheap - which is what it was. if it was another flooring of the same quality, it may have looked better to me...cuz it was still basically the same color. i wouldn't make it a drastic color change if you do it.
- no but you need a zero saw to properly install the wood laminate to cut under doorway openings to ensure a nice completed job
- I have two floors that are different that butt up to each other but I have a marble threshold down between them. It's all of about 5 inches wide and fits the entire width of the doorway. Looks perfectly fine. I have tile that merges with wood flooring. My colors are different. I wouldn't have two that looked like you were trying to match them but contrast them more. I also think those shiny silver or gold metal dividers are awful and look cheap. Sometimes they used them to edge out carpet at a bathroom. yuck!
- There are no rules. if you look into some of these newer model homes they put down pergo wood in the kitchen and stone in another and carpet in another area. It all looks pretty. Just keep the color similiar. Meaning if you go with a dark wood pergo floor then go with a stone or tile or whatever in some brown tones.
- you can do anything you want though you should try to match a style throughout and then your house will match its self. I try not to have the same floor repeat just because I get bored really easily and I love the different kinds of wood that are available now. It's up to you if the look isn't to far out you probably won't notice it as much as you would think
- I think you do whatever looks right to you, but I wouldn't use laminate in a foyer if people will be walking right in from outdoors to that foyer, especially if they'll be tracking in water or snow. How about using ceramic tile in the foyer/hall, and then ceramic in the kitchen, perhaps the same size and style of tile but in different colours in the two areas? You could do the same thing with vinyl, and some vinyl these days looks pretty darn near like ceramic. That way, you have some consistency of design in the size and style but a little interest with the different colours. Best of both worlds.
- when you walk in our front door..you are in the living room which is laminate..and you can see the dining room which is one big room with the kitchen and its tile....our hallway is the laminate..the bedrooms carpet..and the bedroom to our bathroom is tile...the hallway bath is tile as well..we looked at alot of house..there was a house..that had beautiful cherry wood floors...and carpet...was an open floor plan...so you could see everything from the door....it was new construction..you could see the carpet in the living room the tile in the kitchen...and the wood floors in the diningroom and the hallway ..from the front door...what im telling you is do what you want to do ...
- I have the same set up with ceramic all the way in and I do agree that you need to keep it the same. Why can't you use the laminate in the kitchen too? My last house had Pergo in the kitchen, laundry room and adjoining bath and I loved it. Some say laminate shouldn't be in rooms with water but unless the water sits and sits alittle won't mess up the floor.
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