The Super Official Homeowners Thread

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For my two cents you probably don't want because it's neither of your options:  
After spending Thanksgiving in my uncle's 10,000sq ft.+ mansion in ATL, I am dead nuts sold on doing the tile that looks like wood in our main level when I have to replace this stuff in a few years.  We had talked about looking into it but after seeing it in person in his basement (ie. laid on concrete slab) it looks freaking fantastic, is really durable and if for some reason you were able to scratch / damage / break it, it is tile so you can just crack it out and replace it.  That's another big issue with the engineered / locked in woods....if you ever need to replace a few boards you usually have to replace everything all the way to the wall to get to it.  With thin grout lines and dark sealed grout, you wouldn't have to worry about it getting dingy / nasty like you do in bathrooms.

We did hardwood tile in the basement of our old house.  FANTASTIC!  Just make sure to not match it to whatever wood is on the stairs, otherwise it will look like a fake imitation.  Doing it significantly differently made it pop and not look fake.  I have never been asked by so many people who have seen it where to get it in follow up conversations after our Reno.  Not one person asked where we got our hardwoods 







Edit: Saw your post, yes too cold for all of main level.  It's also HARD.  Like walking on it in bare feet you notice how hard it is compared to hardwoods.

Yeah that looks really awesome!  What I also like about tile vs. the engineered "snap together" hardwoods is that you can lay patterns in it.  My uncle had his contractor do normal parallel laid tiles and then a few perpendicular designs and it looked like some of the custom true hardwood plank designs you see in high end homes.  Much rich, very posh