From a budget standpoint, I cringe about the fact that is really expensive… and then a big chunk of it (sometimes almost all) gets covered with an area rug. I joked recently with my daughter that someday people will do hardwood edges…. with plywood (or tile) in the center.
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When we removed the carpet in the bedrooms and bathrooms we replaced with prefinished wood of the same we have in the rest of the house.
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Can you share the brand and color of that LVP?
We have LVP in the basement, hardwood first floor, and wall to wall carpet upstairs. We desperately need to (1) refinish the hardwood first floor and (2) replace the carpet upstairs, which leads to more questions, like whether we should put hardwood or LVP upstairs and whether we should just replace the first floor with same to avoid the pain of refinishing (major inconvenience plus the dust factor).
Has anyone compared the cost of prefinished hardwood vs refinishing old (not that old, 17 yrs) hardwood vs LVP?
(Of course none of this will happen until we first paint, but we struggle to agree on colors - open floor plan with round-ish corners, no obvious stopping points between rooms.)
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In our old house, we were contemplating this issue of 2 rooms next to each other. Would it work to have a tile threshold/border to visually separate the two surfaces?
Here’s an example (although I don’t care for this tile)
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@abasket , do you mind telling us the manufacturer/brand of your sunroom floor?
Unfortunately it’s several years old (was top of the line then and remains pristine) and I don’t know either brand or color!
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I adore color tile and while maybe not a popular opinion, I LOVE that tile!
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The tile definitely draws your eye to it, not the differences in the floor.
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This is the transition between my dining area to my living room. No one notices that the floors are different until we tell them. The dining room, kitchen, family room has wood like tile and the living room, halls and bedrooms have hard wood. Our bathrooms are small and have marble tile floors.
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I like that. With the good color match and different size/orientation, it works.
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I think I am reacting to the style of the tile. It looks very MCM which is a great look, but would not go with our 1700’s historic farmhouse house. I’d have to do something more neutral, but I agree it is a great look, just not for my house.
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We chose finish in place new hardwood several years ago in former house - had old and new hardwood finished/ refinished together - looked great. I like wood kitchen floors. Wood in kitchen and powder room was easy to maintain. Chose vinyl in laundry room and back hall.
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I just bought slate colored lvp tiles for the bathroom now I’m reading all the don’t get gray comments. Are you all meaning not the gray wood look? This is more of a tile look Oh well, I bought it now.
We will be redoing the floor in the entire house. Planning to put it on the market in the spring/early summer. Giving a credit crossed my mind but the carpet is so old and gross that I think we need to change it. Thinking LVP for most of the house but carpet for the beds. Making these decisions is so hard for me. I don’t have good color sense and I can’t visualize at all. This is a helpful thread.
I probably will get input from a realtor once I get some myst do projects completed.
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For me it’s the wall to wall gray look - especially if it’s fake gray wood look. Or real gray wall to wall! One room like a bathroom, no worries. 
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Thanks @abasket. I have been painting the walls a light gray. Probably should have gone with white but I’m not redoing it. I do like it. The slate tile is just the bathroom I think. The bathroom walls I am probably going for a color other than gray. Probably a soft green.
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Good to “see” you @swimcatsmom! I’m sure tile-like LVP in your chosen color is perfectly fine for a bathroom. IMO, it is the fake “reclaimed wood” trend that is massively on the way out. 
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Thanks @BunsenBurner . Good to “see” you too. I’m in the do what I like in case it does not sell but also make it neutral enough to sell mindset. Like I did not paint the shelves in the sewing room/office the fun turquoise I’d have gone for if I was just doing it for me.
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I bet your bathroom will be lovely. You’ll have a lot of flexibility to do splash of whatever colors you like with towels etc.
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I’m a hater of gray, but I love my “slate” floor in my 2nd floor bathroom which is actually a porcelain tile. The bathroom is mostly white with a turquoise sink (which I adore) and a little border of sea glass (turquoise) and chrome tiles. The vanity is a dark wood which looks great when cleaned, but gathers dust in all the intersections. I’d use a light wood if I were to do it again.
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Love all the different options and perspectives (and pix!!).
For the kitchen, we are now looking at either:
- A real tile floor (so a different material abuts the beautiful hardwood floor in place in adjacent, same-level fam room); or
- A lux vinyl ‘tile-look’ material on kitchen floor (for same reason).
After spending all day driving around to different places - lux vinyl ‘tile look’ doesn’t look so great in comparison w/the real thing! Now hub (handy) is investigating doing a tile install himself in kitchen.
If we did that, we’d likely make the front entryway and hallway (to kitchen) a nice hardwood to match the family room.
This is exhausting LOL. I told my husband: “We have to keep in mind these decisions aren’t easy” (to avoid frustration of all the weighing of choices, research). lol