Try these favorite flooring options for high style with a low price tag.
A sleek, stylish kitchen is the hub of all household activity.
Ample cabinetry, counter space, and room to entertain often take center stage.
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Flooring, however, is a major appeal factor that shouldnt be an afterthought.
Top-of-the-line floors can cost around $30 per square foot.
Professional installation for a sizable kitchen can easily put a remodel over budget.
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You might find better value by opting for less expensive flooring.
Ahead, design experts offer their favorite flooring options for high style with a low price tag.
Colored cork is unique, unexpected, affordable, environmentally-friendly, and durable.
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Although cork kitchen flooring might be at the higher end of inexpensive options, it offers great features.
It is easy to install and offers added comfort for adventurous toddlers or aging elders.
Moreover, cork flooring lasts longer than othertypes of flooringand offers more cushion underfoot.
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Avoid walking on it in high heels, though, which can easily damage the material.
Porcelain Tiles
Porcelain is always my top go-to.
I do, however, shy away from wood-looking porcelain planks that are meant to mimic wood.
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If you want wood, I say, just get the wood.
Porcelain tiles are a good option for high-traffic areas.
According to Fixr, a completed floor can range from $500 to $7,000.
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3. you’re free to choose between solidwood flooringand engineered wood flooringboth offer affordable varieties.
Solid wood flooring is just like it sounds: Planks are milled from solid pieces of wood.
Engineered wood flooring features a wood veneer bonded to a substrate of plywood or medium-density fiberboard (MDF).
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This makes it a more stable choice for temperature and humidity fluctuations.
Kitchen flooring also presents a great opportunity to use patterned wood, to avoid monotony, Shakoor suggests.
As a low-cost option forsolid hardwood flooring, consider hickory.
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The gorgeous color variations range from dark brown to red to light tan and highlight pronounced grain patterns.
In a high-traffic kitchen, the hardness and density of hickory stand up well.
The most affordable option might surprise you.
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Carson Downing
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He says that one of the main features homeowners look for with kitchen flooring is protection against moisture.
When choosing luxury vinyl flooring, there are two main options: planks and tiles, Fulmer says.
At Lowes, there are more than 600 options.
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It is fairly thick and much more rigid than its plank counterpart, he says.
Just like the planks, luxury vinyl tile flooring is 100% waterproof.
Because of its shape, luxury vinyl tile flooring often looks like stone or marble.
Both vinyl options can be cost-effective if the subfloor is in good condition.
Bamboo Flooring
Extend your budget and be kind to the Earth with sustainable and cheap bamboo flooring.
Bamboo is a bang out of grass that grows back quickly after harvesting.
Sweep up dirt and grit daily.
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A pre-finished medium-brown solid oak parquet tile with a high-gloss finish sells for under $3 per square foot.
There is an abundance of laminate products that offer inexpensive kitchen flooring.
Consider hand-hewn texture and warm hickory tones for inviting character at less than $1 per square foot.
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Ceramic tile prices start as low as $1 per square foot.
