Like I said yesterday this week I am concentrating on flooring. Since all other choices do need to go with the floors. It makes sense to me to sort of start there. So after I got home from knitting last night I was graced with the husband not being totally distracted so we went to lumber liquidators site to check out what they had. I know that’s probably not where we’ll get the flooring but I wanted to see what sorts of floors he liked. The only real shocker was he really liked this cork floor. Of course I’d never let him put in cork except perhaps in a kids play room or art studio and even then I think I’d try and do a cork ‘rug’ Anyway it turns out we like mostly the same things, dark, hand scraped, interesting grain. So that’s a bonus. So we weeded it down to 9 choices.
1. 1/2″ x 5″ Potomac Plank Handscraped Engineered Flooring
Comments: Most expensive of the ones we picked but I love the texture. Nice not quite too dark color.
2. 7/16″ X 4″ Nocturnal Maple Quick Clic Floating Engineered Flooring
Comments: Might be too dark but its nice because its not super red like a lot of the other ones. Also on the “most expensive’ list.
3. 7/16″ x 4″ Yukon Oak Quick Clic Engineered Floating Flooring
Comments: Love the grain. But I love dark oak.
4.Kahlua Maple Handscraped Engineered Flooring
Comments: Might be a tad too red for me.
5. 1/2″ x 4-3/4″ Tobacco Oak Handscraped Engineered Flooring
Comments: Love the oak, love the lack of red.
6. 5/16″ x 2-1/4″ Select Brazilian Redwood Flooring Prefinished
Comments: a bit too red for me. But for a not as dark as the others choice it’s not bad.
7. Select 3/8″ x 3″ Casa de Colour Prefinished Aztec Cherry Stained Flooring
Comments: too red I think.
8. 12MM Bond Street Teak High Gloss Laminate
Comments: I like it and it is economical however reviews said footprints showed because it was so high gloss.
9.Dream Home – Nirvana V3 8mm x 3″ Havana Mahogany Laminate Flooring (Single Strip)
Comments: This is my favorite of the not really dark ones and hey I think it might be the cheapest.
Also we decided that we’re going to go with one flooring option in the downstairs. So wood in the kitchen for me. I just think the house will flow better if its not chopped up with different floors. Later on I’m going to look at some other sites and see if I find anything else I like.