Entrance Hall and Kitchen Floor. Slate or Solid Wood.

Hi,

I purchased an old apt which i will be decorating, it will be carpet through and through bar the Bathroom which will be tiles, but for the Kithen Floor Stained Pine Kitchen going in, and the ground floor entrace hall of the apt would you recommend black slate or solid wood stained and sealed.

Thanks
Neil

When I got moved into my second hand house there was a solid pine floor in the kitchen which looked lovely. We changed to tiles when we could. I'm by nature a clumsy person so that did affect my decision, but a wooden floor in a kitchen was a disaster for me. If I dropped a fork or (only occasionally) a sharp knife it'd nearly embed itself in the floor. Also as pine is quite soft, everything dented it. Also the previous owner onviously has some kind of hot spill right in front of the oven cos the varnish had been scorched and I realised that there are too many potential accidents in a kitchen (again, maybe just mine) for a wooden floor to survive. As it is we've already replaced 3 tiles (glass coasters can really crack a tile or put a hole in a wooden floor no doubt) but that's much easier to do than replace floor boards.

Probably depends on how much use your kitchen will get...

Trish

Aesthetically personally I'd go for tiles with a pine kitchen. A wooden floor might be too much wood going on. BUT I definitely would NOT recommend black slate tiles- unless you like cleaning your floor several times a day. Do a search - there've been threads about black slate tiles before. I know my sister had the real deal bought and laid in her barn conversion- they require specialist sealing and then resealing every few years. However they took them up again within a couple of years and relaid new floors because she said they always appeared dirty no matter how often they were cleaned.