The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[Sully]

We have real hardwoods in the majority of our house. It covers the living room/dining room/kitchen. Our laundry room has some form of vinyl plank flooring or laminate and when you open the door and see them side by side, it’s real obvious which is real wood. We did laminate flooring in all of our old house and, while it held up really well, I prefer real hardwood.

If real hardwood floors is what you really want, do that. Even if it is a little more expensive, it’s not like floors are something you can come back and upgrade easily like a kitchen appliance in a few months. Buy once cry once.

That's looks like roll vinyl. (Edit: on the computer, it actually looks like the life proof flat laminate snap together stuff but still not the best comparison to what laminate is capable of) My laminate plank looks much better than the real wood in my dad's house and will hold up slightly better (unless your dog pisses on your brand new rug on your brand new floor in your brand new house and you don't roll the carpet up and it stays wet for 24 hours and a seam lifts).

Even our rolled vinyl textured wood look flooring in our laundry room and guest bath looks better than that.  I wouldn't use that as a judging point. The options we were given on our house, the laminate looked way better than any of the hard woods we were offered. I also prefer the wide plank look vs narrow plank which for builder stuff is only offered in laminate.  Our friends in the neighborhood next to where we bought got real hardwood when they built and I had to actually ask them if it was laminate cause it looks like crap and they hate it and said it's super uneven (which is a poor install but still) and a bunch of the edges and corners have chipped.

We have oak stairs and the laminate pairs well with them although grey stain doesn't absorb well it seems. I guess they automatically do a real wood landing no matter what floor choice you pick for the rest of the house which I find weird but I think my laminate looks better. It actually matches better in normal lighting. The landing light is a little single pendant and the main floor is being lit by bright white led cans in this picture.

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Also, our textured rolled vinyl in the bathroom. Not half bad for a guest bath.



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