We've thought about doing that too. I just don't know! I can't picture how it will look.
I hear that it's really soft, and if you have a lot of people with high heels, it will leave marks in the floor. But, I just read that in an article about some chi chi store in NY that had bamboo flooring, so it could be crap.
According to my floor-installing-ex, bamboo in high-traffic places (like restaurants and stores) needs to be refinished every six months. Luckily, since it's soft, the refinishing is very easy.
Bamboo flooring.
Oh, yeah, I've seen pictures it's just hard for me to picture in context with the cabinets (white) and counters (oak, possibly stained coffee colored, butcher block) I'm getting.
I hear that it's really soft, and if you have a lot of people with high heels, it will leave marks in the floor.
I heard that too...possibly here? My problem with that is, as always, with the pets. Their why I can't have anything nice! Anyway, sturdier would be better.
I'm going for a kind of retro but not kitschy look. This is an example of the Armstrong tile that my contractor has mentioned as an option:
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White tile is made of regret. The previous floor in my kitchen was white, and every single drip showed. Of course, I am the person who took samples of the floor and Formica home and spilled coffee on them, to see which showed the least.
My clever plan did not, however, allow for white dog hair. Can you dye a dog?
White tile is made of regret. The previous floor in my kitchen was white, and every single drip showed.
Even after cleaning?
I don't really like any other tile color.
The retro flooring I was looking at for my kitchen is like for industrial/ciommercial buildings: siliar to this, but in 12 in tiles: [link]
and with pink specks.
We put in what Msbelle is looking at, in two shades of green with a few black tiles thrown in for accent in our kitchen. It was cheap, looks AWESOME and does not show dirt, plus is easy to clean. If you are going to use this kind of tile, you need to make sure the subfloor is as smooth as possible, so prep is everything.
It's just so hard for me to imagine how everything will look together and in relation to the rest of my house (I have the original hardwood flooring and could also just leave that in the kitchen, if I refinished it, but it's fairly damaged after years under ugly ass linoleum).
How about grey (or blue) and black checkerboard? retro but subdued and doesn't show dirt.
