Most of us spend a lot of time in the kitchen. By virtue of this, it should bring joy to each of its details, both furniture and floor, ceiling. The floor in the kitchen should, of course, be beautiful and high -quality, but also practical. Unfortunately, not all types of flooring for floor, can combine all these qualities. On the floor you can put a parquet board or ceramic tiles, parquet, various types of laminates, linoleums, marmoleums and carpets.
Now we will consider in more detail what advantages and disadvantages have existing floor coverings for the kitchen.
Most often, in the kitchen, linoleum is used as a floor covering. This is facilitated by a number of advantages, such as: the ease of independent laying, a huge selection of color solutions and “democratic” prices. However, in addition to the advantages, he also has a number of minuses: the drawing can burn out with constant direct sunlight on it. By installing or moving furniture, you can easily damage it. Also the possibility of stable spots from coffee, ketchup or mustard.
Ceramic tiles used as a floor covering is familiar and very popular. The advantages of tiles are: strength and fire resistance, amazing choice of textures and colors, resistance to most of the mechanical, chemical and physical damage. With all the advantages, it has its drawbacks, for example, a very high price of some types of tiles, the danger of sliding and the relative coldness of the material.
A possible option when choosing flooring to the kitchen is a laminate. He has a whole mass of advantages, first of all, he easily fits independently, resistant to almost all mechanical damage, is easily cleaned. He has only one minus – he is very afraid of moisture.