| 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.
Hi Donelle!
Nope, haven’t a clue. Have you tried using a search engine like Google? What kind of material are you wanting to use? Linoleum, stone,……??
armstrong and mannington make sheet vinyl that is a black and white checkered pattern.
I sell the black/white checkered flooring on eBay. Both in a 9′ or 12′ width. Each of the
squares on the pattern are 9″x9″. It is a
commercial grade flooring and I have been selling it now for 4 years. It’s my best seller!
I sell it under 2 user id’s: TikiToesCA and
CraftEnterprises
Thanks!
Michele Craft
805-479-8454
Thanks for dropping in Michele and leaving your information.
Hi, I’ve just bought a 1912 craftsman with some VERY ugly old lino on the floor. The kitchen has light green/dark brown tiling on the sink (maybe original) and light blue/red tiling on half of the walls!
I am thinking of putting in black/white checkerboard, or wood? No Idea- here are some pics.
Help!!
Hi Sasha,
The pics aren’t coming through. You can get a free image hosting account at photobucket.com and upload them, then paste the urls in a comment.
It sounds like anything would be an improvement though! Don’t forget about stone, ceramic or porcelain tile – you’re going to find that your choices are endless! You might want to walk around a store like Home Depot or Lowe’s for inspiration as well. Lots of dreaming to do!
Any opinions on Marmoleum vs linoleum from Tarkett? Do yo feel one product is better than the other??
Thanks!
I’m not very familiar with Tarkett’s lino. I do know that Marmoleum is a good product. Most linos are good choices as well. I would suggest doing internet searches to view what customers have to say about their experience with these products. Epinions.com is a good website for looking up user opinions on products too.
Hi, I am looking for black & white linoleum flooring in Ottawa, ont. Thanks.
Hi Kerry,
I’m in the USA, so really don’t know what’s available in Canada. Several posts above yours there is a somebody who sells this on eBay. I would think you should be able to find one product line of tile that has black tiles and white tiles.
Hello,
We just purchased a mid century rancher and wanted to do the kitchen floor in a olive green/off white chekerboard pattern, preferably in a laminate. Does laminate come in pre arranged checkerboard patterns or is it done on a tile by tile basis. None of the on line florring sights really explain this.
Thanks,
Mark,
Willow Glen (San Jose) CA
Hi Mark,
You might get lucky and find vinyl or linoleum flooring in the colors you want in a checkerboard pattern, but chances are you’ll just have to find two different colors of tile and do it yourself.
I am trying to do a black and white checkerboard floor in my kitchen and am having a lot of trouble finding the correct materials. I have finally located a 12×12 ceramic tile but would love to find a true linoleum in either 12×12 or 16×16. I’m not able to find a solid black or white. Any ideas?
Hi Kate,
If you look directly under this post, you’ll see a link to see all of the comments…. click on that. There is a post by an ebay seller who sells these, though I don’t remember if the tiles are lino or not. Have you tried doing a google search?
Yes, I did check Ebay and they look like 6″ vinyl. I’ve also googled multiple times (that’s how I found this website!) I’ve really been surprised at how difficult the floor has been to find. I thought a b&w checkerboard floor was quite popular. I see lots of pictures of it in the decorating magazines. I just can’t seem to create it!
Hi, I am thinking about doing my open kitchen and balcony in black and white flooring. Will it appear too “busy” when the rest of the house’s flooring is dark wood? Will it appear awkward and not flow right? Also, does it go well with yellow pastel walls? Thanks!
Matt
Hi Matt,
I’m not sure what your definition of “too busy” would be, but I think of checkerboard flooring as ‘stylish simplicity’. The colors can harmonize with any other colors as black and/or white go with anything.
ecohaus.com has 13 inch linoleum tiles
Hi, I have just found the perfect color green and white tiles for a checkerboard floor for my kitchen. But, I have a small 10×10 kitchen and the awesome vinyl tiles that I found in the exact colors that I want only come in 16×16. Do you think that size will be too big for my small kitchen. Will it make it look even smaller?
Thanks,
Matt J
Thanks Karen!