i think having premium quality towels in bathroom and kitchen is part of decoration also
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Hoping you all can help. I have to choose new flooring for a rental we own out of state. I am unable to travel there to take care of it in person before the new tenant moves in on June 15th. We have decided to go with luxury vinyl plank everywhere, including stairs, but master bedroom. Anyone have any suggestions for a brand and color option that will complement these cabinets (Range and mw also being replaced with matching stainless)?
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Please just don’t do the grey that everyone seems to be putting in rentals (my personal opinion! )
Are there choices beyond various shades of “wood” look?
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Don’t worry. I hate gray and it would look terrible with the cabinets anyway. I will consider anything that coordinates with the cabinets though.
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Does it need to coordinate? Or can it contrast? It’s tough to find wood look to match. We installed a LVT (or close to it) floor in a home with wood cabinets that was the tile look rather than a wood look. It was primarily white with occasional black tile (not a full black/white pattern like a checkerboard).
A light floor would also pick up your white backsplash. The white had a very slight speckle, and the black, solid. Problem with older white vinyl is that white can yellow over time. Not sure how the newer LVT colors do. If it has more a “stone” look, it may hide that.
Sorry, no photos to share.
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We finally gave up trying to find matching wood colors when replacing our carpet with LVP. The baseboards contrast but it looks fine. It worked because the baseboards were removed and the LVP was placed underneath eliminating the need for quarter round of another color.
The pix shows a nice floor. Does it really need replacement?
We didn’t replace our downstairs hardwood because it’s in great shape (and I’ve always loved it). We have one place where the new color (darker) runs into the old hardwood because of the stairs (big debate there) but it looks fine and I’m happy with the result.
What are you replacing? Carpet, tile, wood? We ran into a problem because our floors weren’t perfectly level (carpet covers every thing) and the crew from Lowe’s wouldn’t do the job when they arrived. It was a mess. We hired an independent contractor who did the work for us (and honestly a much better result) but it wouldn’t be pleasant figuring that out long distance…
And make sure whoever is doing it is able to do the stairs. Not all plank colors come with matching stair casing so the option is to do the stairs individually (which is what we ended up doing) or use a different color for the casing. And the casings (at least when we did this last year) often weren’t available.
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@scubasue with cabinets that color of wood, I would look for a lighter floor color. I know you said you don’t like gray but some of the lighter shades bordering white could work.
My personal preference, were it my decision, would be a warm white or heavy cream colored lvp. Something like the vinyl in the links below that would complement the cabinet color well.
Disclaimer, lol. I know nothing about these brands - I just did a Google search for white lvp. We are considering installing lvp upstairs but haven’t started looking at it seriously to know which brands are good, etc.
As someone else mentioned a faux tile look would look nice but I’m not sure that you would want to carry that look throughout the house. Perhaps if you’re treating the kitchen/dining area as a separate area?
@kjofkw I am open to any color that will look good with the existing cabinets. I like tile look, but this is in the midwest and tile would typically only be used in the kitchen and bath areas. I need new flooring in the whole house.
@gouf78 Our baseboards and all the other woodwork is already white, so I don’t have a worry about matching that wood. The wood floor in the kitchen/dining room is, unfortunately, already solid wood. I hate to rip that all up, but there is carpet in the rest of the house that needs to be replaced. I won’t spend money on more carpet and believe that in the long run, I’ll save with spending more on hard floor now. I’m told there is no way to match the existing wood floor in the kitchen and dining room and I don’t want two different woods next to each other, so I think the only solution unfortunately is for the existing wood floor to come out.
@AnAsmom Thank you. I do like the idea of the contrasting light floor–especially the one in linked in your last example with some darker grain mixed in.
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Could you sand and restain the kitchen and get a close match or contrasting color for the rest of the house?
I hate to think of a sold wood floor being removed.
Also, I think a darker floor would look nice with those cabinets.
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Some LVT unfortunately could be easily nicked and scratched. I admired the new floors in my doctors’ office shortly after they were installed. A month later, when I came back for a follow up, I could see gashes and scratches all over from wheelchairs and crutches. With renters, I would be very concerned about abuse. Most rental owners I know just recarpet in between their renters with a contractor grade carpet if there is no way to shampoo it.
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If you allow dogs in the rental, make sure to get flooring that will not be marred by their nails. Also if your driveway is asphalt make sure material is compatible. (I know there used to be asphalt risks with lower grade linoleum. Not sure if any risks with newer materials.)
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Speaking of dogs… some folks we know used Calibamboo. This stuff is bomb-proof.
And it looks like you can get it at Lowe’s.
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So do you object to having two different floorings? Keep the current kitchen/dining room wood floors (which as mentioned, look from that pic anyway to be in great shape - and go fine with the cabinets) and then get a LVP for the rest of the house? As a short term rental do renters really mind two different floorings as long as both are clean and look nice??
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When a friend of mine remodeled her vacation home the contractor saved the existing floor in the kitchen and dining by making a sort of decorative border which delineated those spaces and then proceeded with a new wood. Looked great.
Is this strictly rental? I tend to think carpet might be the way to go also. You’ll have to have a fairly expensive plank to keep it from getting torn up.
And do check about the baseboards–if not removed they’ll put the quarter round (matching the floor) to cover the gap between plank and baseboard so you’ll have two colors on your base board. And as I mentioned our carpet covered areas that were uneven which the Lowe’s guys wouldn’t deal with to any extent. (Our contractor charged more but it ended up costing less because of the savings in no quarter round )
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I like the idea of considering 2 compatible floorings (not attempting difficult matchy-match, but something that looks nice together). You have that now, with carpet in the other rooms. Maybe you could find a hard surface alternative. Likely the renters will be adding an area rugs on it too.
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Thanks everyone for comments and suggestions.
This is not a short term rental…it’s long term. New tenant has signed a 2 year lease. We do have different floors now, with the carpet, but I will not spend money on carpet. Long term, it’s significantly more expensive than paying extra to install hardwood now. We sold a rental house a couple of years ago…when we bought the place we refinished hardwood and installed more to match, put 3 coats of Swedish finish on it and 30 years later it still looked amazing. That’s with 12 years as a rental with kids and 2 large dogs the whole time. We did nothing to it when we sold and all our lookers raved about the floors. We are getting ready to do a major remodel on our current primary home and all the general contractors we have interviewed (6) have pushed high end lvp instead of hardwood because it’s indestructible. I thought that sounded fishy for a large, higher end water view home. But I checked with two real estate agent friends of mine and they both confirmed that even the higher end homes in our area are opting for lvp over real hardwood.
Still my preference would be to add hardwood floor, strip the kitchen floor and stain all to match. I am going to find out more about why they are saying that won’t work. Seems like the simplest solution to me. If there is a legitimate reason, I don’t thing two different hard floors next to each other will look right no matter what we choose, unless it was some kind of tile look and that would just not fit in the area. No one there has tile in their living areas.
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My mother had her kitchen oak flooring extended into the formerly carpeted living room. Each strip of the old flooring was cut back and the new floor was interwoven with the existing boards, then the whole floor was refinished. The transition is invisible.
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When we first built we put in hardwood floors. And I love them. There were areas that got worn and to refinish everyone said “Nope! Can’t do spots. Gotta do the whole thing!” to the tune of a few thousand bucks. No thanks. Most looks brand new. I’ll live with it. Throw a small rug on top. After using some “renewing type products” the spots look almost new now also.
Then we replaced family room carpet with tile. That was good.
Finally the carpet upstairs and on the stairs needed replacing. Ugh. Not sure how many years I spent searching for “the one”. Well, I finally gave up.
So the LVP we settled on does not match the hardwood but I decided to quit worrying about it. The hardwoods wouldn’t match either but I guess that depends on your pocket book.
The biggest plus for us is the LVP we got is water proof–not a 24 hour water resistant but water proof. That is a real innovation which simply did not exist a few years ago. Hardwood is beautiful but it sure ain’t waterproof. And the higher end come in higher thickness so minor scratches etc won’t show. Another plus is it’s easier on your feet than hardwood.
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@scubasue it’s so interesting what is being installed in different parts of the country.
My sil was told that she should put in hardwoods instead of LVP in her high end remodel.
My son and his wife put LVP in his first floor when they had their kitchen remodeled. It looks very nice. No kids and just one spoiled cat so I can’t talk about how they are holding up.
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@deb922 I agree. One contractor told us he had just installed lvp in two exclusive homes in our town. Still, I don’t know if I’d put it in my own home. I asked him what he put in his own newish home. Of course he said real wood. ha.
I like the idea of being able to refinish the floor in 15 or 20 years when it’s time for an update. And, the end lvp looks very very good and I cant scratch it with a fingernail or a butter knife, but of course you can still tell it’s fake.
When we were looking at property in Florida a couple of years ago, the preferred floors were tile or terazzo. The differences are interesting.