In article , Joseph Meehan says...

Banty wrote:
In article om,
gd226 says...

so... the impetus for this project is that our dogs have trashed the
existing carpet - necessitating a more durable, cleanable replacement
(either a wood or tile).
Regardless of which one we choose, we'll put down a large area rug for
protection and noise.
As far as the cold issue, winters here in colorado can be chilly, and
we're planning on radiant floor heat.

We like the look of slate, but don't want to do something that will
make the place tough to sell in the future.
The house makes use of stone/concrete as a common theme and already
has alot of unique features (some pics at
http://www.pbase.com/homi/home_inside )
The master bath floor and shower are slate, the first floor is mostly
a saltillo-looking tile, the kitchen backsplash is travertine, and the
sinks and counters in the kitchen, master bath and wetbar are
concrete.

We're certainly appreciating everyone's thoughts... keep em coming !
Homi



:artly tongue in cheek rant warning::

What IS IT with wooden floors in the kitchen!! Even YOU, with such an
appreciation for tile and stone and slate, put that GODDAM WOOD in
the KITCHEN!

Ten years from now, folks will turn up their noses at the wood floors
in all these two-thousand-ought (year 2001 - 2010) kitchens, just
like they turn their noses up justifiably at those '80s carpeted
bathrooms! It'll be dated in ten years, esp. when folks are tiling
over that stained and water damaged stuff.

Come ON - YOU, with all those other options, all that taste, and all
that appreciation for all those materials which would make wonderful
floors, put those STICKS on the floor of your KITCHEN??!?

I LOVED the rest of your house, then I saw that DUMB wood everyone is
putting in their kitchens nowdays. It just looks duuuuumb.

HmmmmPH!!

::end rant::

Cheers,
Banty (TILE going into MY kitchen!)

I must be way ahead of my time. I put a wood floor in my kitchen in
1968. I still like it. The house was over 100 years old at the time and I
took out sheet flooring to put in the wood and found that under the sheet
was another wood floor. I suspect 30 years from now wood will be back in.
So why worry what you or I think. The home owner should please themselves.


Oh absolutely.

Though I *do* think the wood floors in the kitchen is just a trend a lot of
people are doing 'cause it's the thing (not everyone who does it, of course).

And, true, in another 30 years it'll come back again.

I just don't like it in the kitchen floor.

It's just that, given the rest of his house, I'm amazed to see yet another bunch
of sticks on a kitchen floor. I was looking for granite tile or blue slate or
who-knows-what there. Travertine, anyway.

Cheers,
Banty