So I’ve been very excitedly making plans to do some work in my kitchen, and I just don’t know what to do about the floor. It’s black and white checkerboard, which I like and would be fine with keeping or replacing in the same pattern. It was put in in a cheap renovation, however, and I think that’s why it doesn’t stay clean and always looks kind of blah.
So, I could, I guess, just put in a floor right on top of it. Thing is, I don’t like most of the choices (fake earth tone tile, etc) and none of them seem to be made at all for a small kitchen (about 10x9 - I can’t even find inspirational pictures for little kitchens at all, and big tile wouldn’t look good.) All the DIY vinyl floor tile I see seems to have big 12 inch blocks, which I think would just be too big for this. Also, I want some assurance that a new (higher quality) floor would be easier to clean in the first place.
I think it’s vinyl and not linoleum. I can’t imagine that it would be linoleum unless the floor was in really good shape when they redid it and they just didn’t touch it, right? (I’m sure they didn’t spend the money for a green product when they redid the place.) Actually I’d love to do linoleum myself, but I have a big dog with long nails and have heard that gouges are something of a problem with it.
So, is there something I could try with my current floor? Stripping it and using some kind of sealer? Would that help or would I end up doing a lot of work for nothing? Please advise! (Either that or come over and move my stove and fridge for me so I can install something new. Seriously, I’d do it in a heartbeat if that wasn’t involved.)