10 Kitchen Flooring Ideas: High Quality Flooring You Won’t Find in Big Home Improvement Stores

Engineered wood panels are a popular flooring option as they are more affordable, yet more durable than hardwood. Engineered wood planks are made by layering, heating, and pressing multiple types of wood together for greater strength.

Carlisle Wide Plank Floors creates planks with a strong engineered core, topped by the hardwood of your choice. Engineered wood holds up better against moisture, because the tighter grain expands and contracts less, making it a perfect choice for your kitchen. Carlisle is known for their extra wide and extra long planks, which create an even more beautiful floor due to fewer visible seams. Choose from oak, ash, pine, hickory, and more for a custom look.

Reclaimed and antique hardwood is all the rage for its unique quality and naturally worn finish. Old growth wood is truly incomparable and will elevate your space regardless of your design aesthetic. Reclaimed Antique Hardwood sources high quality Heart Pine, Oak, Chestnut, Walnut, Black Ash, Maple, and more.

You can completely customize the shape and sizes of your panels and even order matching trim, stair parts, and more. Be aware, though, that you will have to refinish hardwood occasionally to protect it from moisture.

With engineered stone tiles, you can achieve the look of natural stone, for a much lower cost. Tenacity Flooring creates waterproof, PVC-free, and scratch and stain resistant tiles or planks. They are as durable as ceramic tiles, but much easier to install by clicking together.

The tiles come in various sizes, including extra large, which saves even more time during installation.

Their natural color options look stunning in any space. The company has committed to using recycled bottles to create the backings for their products, helping make this a more sustainable choice!

Natural stone is timeless and luxurious. However, it is pricier than other options and requires more frequent refinishing to protect the surface from chips and wear. If your kitchen does not see heavy foot traffic, however, it is well worth the investment.

Stone Impressions creates a wide range of natural stone mosaics and solids, in multiple shapes. Choose from marble, travertine, limestone, and more, and select their pre-designed stones mosaics or work with their team to customize your own designs. They provide detailed instructions for installation so you can spend your budget on picking your favorite pieces, rather than on contractors.

Porcelain is favored for its durability, easiness to clean, and relative affordability. Less porous than ceramic, such tiles are hygienic, splash and stain resistant, and highly customizable.

Wonder Porcelain creates beautiful porcelain tiles with gloss or matte finishes, and in square, rectangular, or hexagon shapes of various sizes and dimensions.

Choose from solid colors and textures, or mimic the look of marble, concrete, or wood. Recently, designers have favored extra large tiles as they add a grand feeling of expansiveness to a room.

Laminate is more scratch and stain resistant than some non-synthetic choices, with a huge range of styles and an appealingly low price-point. However, be aware that that is often does not hold up to water as well as other options. Ask the manufacturer about water resistance for the specific product you’re interested in.

Arborite specializes in fire-rated and high wear laminates that are perfect for a high use area like your kitchen. They offer over 250 patterns with options for realistic wood, stone, or terrazzo finishes or boldly colorful, abstract, or metallic prints. DIY laminate flooring is a very achievable project.

Did you ever imagine you’d hear the words “luxury” and “vinyl” paired together? Well, the day has come, for vinyl is of a higher quality than ever. Adore Floors creates multiple patented lines of luxury vinyl through sustainable methods. They employ unique microbiostat technology for extra sanitary power, micro ceramics for extra durability, bamboo composite, and surface hardening tricks.

Their wide variety of wood and stone grains look incredibly real! They provide panels with multiple installation methods, including ones with self-adhesive, ones which click together, or can be glued down – perfect for a DIY vinyl flooring project!