| Checkerboard flooring in the kitchen can add an elegant or fun touch to this very important room. Your kitchen flooring needs to be durable and best of all easy to clean. One design approach that’s making a comeback is a checkerboard flooring kitchen look. Checkerboard flooring doesn’t have to be black and white; it can be any color combination that works for you. Black and white flooring in your kitchen gives a clean, bright look, but don’t feel constrained by those colors. |
Kitchen black and white flooring is popular, but maybe it’s time to start your own trend. It is amazing how flooring trends, just like fashion trends keep reappearing after some intervals. Just when they think that they have disappeared into the labyrinths of extinct fashion forever, they make a dramatic reappearance.
Checkerboard flooring kitchen can be a style statement
Kitchens are one of the most important rooms in the entire house and aren’t just for eating in anymore. The kitchen area can be a meeting place, used for crafts and homework, and a place to hang out. Everyone knows parties always migrate to the kitchen! That’s why it is so important to choose flooring that fits the personality and feel of your family and home. Creativity is very important and there are many ways that you can show your creativity through your kitchen flooring choice. Have you considered a checkerboard flooring? There are so many colours to mix and match from, that the very idea is quite consuming. If you have a bit of creativity in you, the possibilities it presents are limitless.
A checkerboard flooring kitchen makes a statement about your family and home. The retro feel of a checkerboard flooring kitchen can help you to have a foundation for decorating your kitchen in the ’50s style, complete with a jukebox, though you don’t have to go in that decorating direction. Checkerboard flooring can be done in any color combination and can go with just about any decorating style. You are only limited by your creativity and imagination. For people out there who are a bit confused with the overwhelming number of options out there, can always the seek of a professional interior decorator or better still, use the internet. It is a free resource that offers abundant options and tips how to choose the perfect flooring. Once you go through various blogs and forums on checkerboard flooring kitchen, you will get an idea as to what color combination may work for your kitchen. You can go ahead from there.
If you are looking for a clean, contemporary look, you might consider installing black and white flooring in your kitchen. Kitchen black and white flooring makes the room feel updated, clean, and neat. Black and white vinyl tiles can be laid in a checkerboard pattern or any other pattern to create a room that is contemporary, sleek, and interesting. If you want to make your kitchen look brighter and more interesting, you will want to consider using black and white flooring in your kitchen.
Using floor tiles creatively will help you to create a kitchen floor that others will be envious of. You are only bound by your creativity when deciding what pattern or design to arrange the tiles in. Using tiles of varying colors and hues help to create texture and interest in the kitchen. It gives the room a personality and feel all its own, which makes your friends and family want to be in the room. Whether you just make a border around your kitchen or you create a more intricate pattern or design, you will have a kitchen floor that is one of a kind made just for you.
Consider checkerboard flooring kitchen while renovating
Changing your kitchen flooring is a great way to change the entire look of the room. Most people don’t think of changing flooring when they want to quickly update a room, but your flooring choice can make a huge impact on the feel of the room. Making a pattern or design using flooring makes a room feel more interesting. You can use vinyl tiles, ceramic tiles, or even different finishes of hardwood flooring or stone tiles to make a checkerboard pattern or a design in your kitchen. They are not too much costly and hence it allows you the financial freedom to experiment a bit with various colours and patterns.
Whether you choose to have a checkerboard flooring kitchen, black and white flooring in your kitchen, or another pattern, you will have a kitchen that is full of interest and texture when you choose to use different colors and finishes in creating your floor. If you are looking for a way to make your kitchen into a masterpiece, then adding a patterned floor is a great choice for you.
I am going to paint a diagonal checkerboard on my hardwood floors in kitchen and den. Probably going to do a country white and tan/khaki. I have heard of a technique where you actually stain the whole floor the country white, then come back and tape off the squares and paint on the tan/khaki. The tan would be thinned out to match the thinness of the stain. If using this technique there should be no reason to prime floors right? What do you think about overall technique?
Your floor is going to look wonderful. It sounds as if you are going to keep the wood texture showing which will give you a beautiful country look. If you are wanting the wood texture to show and the stain covers the entire floor, primer probably could be avoided. I know some painters prime before using stain to give better protection and coverage; maybe it depends on the stain.
I think your technique sounds good. And don’t forget to apply polyurethane over the checkerboard when it’s dry.
I’m looking for a black and white checkerboard look for a commercial kitchen. I’m open to either commercial vinyl or tiles. any suggestions? Thanks!
Flooring stores, big box stores and internet stores should be able to accommodate your needs. You can get printed checkerboard patterns or create your own with tile. The advantage of tile is you can replace an individual damaged tile but are stuck with patching the vinyl if a section gets damaged. But with the vinyl roll you don’t have the seams around the tiles to cause problems (which doesn’t happen often).
It just occurred to me your question wasn’t about vinyl roll vs tile but about vinyl tiles vs ceramic tiles. In that comparison I prefer ceramic tile because I feel it’s more durable and doesn’t negatively impact air quality as vinyl flooring can.
SHOULD THE B&W TILES BE INSTALLED AT AN ANGLE AND NOT RUN DIAGONALLY WITH THE WALLS? PLEASE ADVISE. THANKS
I wouldn’t say it “should” be installed in any specific direction, but it seems more interesting to me to be at an angle. The disadvantage of having it run parallel to the walls is that it accents walls that are out of square. The look you are seeking and the style of the room/building you are flooring will help direct you — this is an artistic decision.
I purchased 12″ squares of Armstrong Stylistik II
self-sticking Tile, 1box of Black and 1 box of White to create a racing flag floor. I ran short and went back to Home Depot where I had purchased it only to find out they had discontinued it. i contacted Armstrong only to be told they made it just for Home Depot and it was no longer available. So here I sit with a six inch border around the floor that is unfinished. Any sugestions where I might find it, I need sixteen pieces of each color. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, David Duff, Winter Park Florida
Can you get your Home Depot store to check with all of their stores? Maybe one of the other stores has what you need, plus some for backup.
I am looking for 8×8 (preferred) or 12×12 vinyl tile for my camper I want to create a white/aqua checkered floor in my camper I am restoring. Can anyone point me in the direction to find aqua color vinyl tiles?
If linoleum tiles would work, try Forbo or Armstrong. I don’t know if they have the look you are after, but it’s worth a try. And linoleum is made of sustainable products and doesn’t offgas, hurting the air you breathe.
Hi, I sell black/white checkered flooring.
Continuous, commercial grade vinyl. I started
selling it 5 years ago, after doing my hubby’s
garage in those stick on tiles (that came up fast).
I sell it cheaper than flooring stores.
It is a 12′ wide roll. I am a powerseller on eBay since 1997
and here is the link if you want to check it out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:11&item=200145664828&refid=store
Or, if you want to go directly, go to eBay and type in
CHECKERED FLOORING I am user ID: TikiToesCA
Smiles,
Michele
We currently have sheet vinyl(?) green and white (8×8) square on our kitchen floor.Iwant to replace it and have been and looked everywhere.With no luck at all..There is a little narbeling in each .Where in the world can I find a simmular floor? I just love the floor but it is worn out .I could use some help here
Thanks
SBHuck
We currently have sheet vinyl(?) green and white (8×8) square on our kitchen floor.Iwant to replace it and have been and looked everywhere.With no luck at all..There is a little narbeling in each .Where in the world can I find a simmular floor? I just love the floor but it is worn out .I could use some help here
Thanks
SBHuck
Don’t you know that Murphy’s Law is alive and well in the flooring industry? If you like the flooring, it will be “improved” and you’ll never find anything quite like it again.
You might be able to recreate it with individual tiles instead of sheet vinyl or linoleum. Because I prefer linoleum to vinyl I think going with either Forbo’s Marmoleum or Armstrong’s Marmorette would let you put together a great floor, and maybe even improve on what you have.
Hi, we have an old Four Square house built in the late 1800’s and the decor is pretty well Victorian, Traditional. I really want the Black and White floor for our Kitchen because it is very true to the Edwardian Style, classic, yet contemporay.. but I am not sure what would work the best and what would be easist to keep clean (I have 2 small kids, a small dog, and a husband!) Our large square kitchen has white wainscotting with the remaining walls painted red. Cabinets are painted white. Appliances are stainless.
I guess what I’m asking is:
1. do I want the sheet vinyl that is sold at the home depot (Armstrong)?
2. do I want the stick-down tiles I found on-line made by Home Dynamix?
3. do I have any other material options (economical) when doing this floor pattern. If so, where do I find them?
4. if I can’t do the checkerboard flooring, what else would you suggest would work in this old house but still have that “flair?”
Thanks SO much!
Melissa :)
For starters, I’m more partial to linoleum than vinyl because I think it’s more durable and is more environmentally friendly. You can buy linoleum from flooring stores that carry Forbo or Armstrong.
I’m under the impression that nobody is making the checkerboard flooring in a sheet product right now, though we can hope that changes soon. So if you truly want a checkerboard pattern I think you are restricted to using tiles instead of sheet flooring.
You can create great looks with linoleum — like simulating a rug, bricks, or creating your own special design. You could also put wood flooring down and paint it white, coating it with several coats of water-based polyurethane.
I have just put in a black and white checkerboard floor in my kitchen. It is sheet vinyl and we bought it at Lowes from their special order section.
I have 4 kids, a husband and a big dog. I have always found that sheet vinyl works better for us as I have to mop the floor a lot and with the stick-down squares, there are those teeny-tiny spaces in between the tiles and sooner or later the water gets thru to the sub-floor. Also I can usually get a higher quality vinyl in the sheet flooring.
I have a white kitchen with a black granite worktop and splash backs with ceramic black and white checker tiles on the floor, I have baby pink accessories, microwave, toaster, kettle etc.. i love it. Everyone makes comment on the floor. I have 4 kids and a dog and tiles are much harder wearing and easy to clean, purchased from Homebase.
Trying to locate Black and White Checkered Flooring in Sydney Australia……
Any suggestions where to start looking or any contacts here? Want to use it for double garage for the floor.
Thanks
Donelle