ᐅ Looking for Suitable Flooring for Kitchen/Fireplace Area

Hi,

I am looking for a flooring option for our open-plan kitchen and living area (about 40 m² (430 sq ft)) that meets the requirements for wet rooms as well as for use with wood-burning stoves. I would like to install it myself and have experience with laminate flooring so far.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

tf4skate schrieb:

meets the requirements for wet rooms as well as wood-burning stoves.

What do you use the kitchen-living area for? I have hardwood flooring everywhere and a glass plate in front of the fireplace (alternatively, you would have to install tiles there).

By the way, this is already the third property in a row for me. Regardless of having kids or Bernese Mountain Dogs.

Well... kitchen = cooking = it might get wet.

What would be an alternative to hardwood flooring?

tf4skate schrieb:

What would be the alternative to hardwood flooring?

Anything suitable for living areas can also be used in kitchens.

tf4skate schrieb:

Well... kitchen = cooking = could get wet.

I’m not sure what you mean by cooking, but in my entire life, I’ve never had to wipe or dry the floor after cooking. Once I dropped a bottle and it broke, but that could have happened anywhere, especially since most kitchen activities take place above the countertop.

Kitchen floors = tiles. Unless you are extremely meticulous and always clean up immediately, or you mainly use the kitchen just to reheat meals in the microwave.

You can tell me whatever you want. When I grill a steak—3.5 minutes on high heat on each side, then 10-15 minutes at 80°C (176°F) in the warming drawer—the floor under the stove ends up covered in grease splatters. Under my built-in coffee machine, there are always small coffee drops.

With children, things constantly fall on the floor, and I don’t even want to imagine the dents in the hardwood flooring.

If you want a real kitchen that is used regularly, go with tiles. Even though some hardliners will convince themselves that hardwood flooring is great and very easy to maintain, that’s simply not true.

Even if I reveal my opinion now: I find tiles in the kitchen absolutely unattractive and parquet impractical.

We have wood-look vinyl flooring in the kitchen. It looks good, can be wiped clean, is low-maintenance, and practical.
But it’s just not elegant.