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June 15, 2020 by Terry Holmes Carpet & Flooring

Top Three Cheapest Kitchen Flooring Options for Birmingham Homeowners

If you plan on remodeling your kitchen floor this summer, but you’re on a tight budget, don’t give up hope! There are always cheap but beautiful kitchen flooring choices. Whether you are choosing new kitchen flooring for style or whether it is for a green design, these top three cheapest kitchen flooring options can help.

Vinyl can be both luxurious and affordable

Vinyl The cheapest of all kitchen flooring options, vinyl comes in a huge variety of colors and styles, as well as shapes and sizes. From basic stick-on tiles to entire sheets, vinyl kitchen flooring is one of the most common kitchen flooring options.

Vinyl flooring can easily be done DIY or installed professionally at a reasonable price. Stick-on or glued vinyl tiles can be arranged to copy a variety of real tile options. From stone to marble to checkerboard, vinyl is versatile. Best of all, it’s softer on the feet than conventional tile. That’s good news when you’re washing the dishes or cooking on the stove.

Affordable Linoleum Flooring

Linoleum Similar to vinyl but without the unfriendly environmental concerns, linoleum is made from sustainable and recycled materials. Wood flour, pine resin and linseed oils are pressed and heated into sheets or tiles in a huge variety of shapes, sizes, colors and designs. Birmingham homeowners will enjoy the ease of cleaning that vinyl provides.

While it costs a little more than vinyl, it does have all of the same features without the environmental concerns. Easily installed DIY or professionally, linoleum can duplicate a wide variety of kitchen flooring options such as wood, tile and stone.

 

Porcelain kitchen tiles are surprisingly affordable

Porcelain – If you’re not fooling yourself with faux wood and tile, why not spring for the real deal? Porcelain tile has all of the same features as typical kitchen flooring tile options, but without the high price. DIY or professionally installed, porcelain tiles can replicate any design, color or style that conventional flooring tile has.

Stone hues and colors are a common sight in kitchen flooring options. Easily replicated in light earthy tones to polished marble to natural stone, porcelain tiles can give you the natural stone look you desire, but without breaking the bank.

Installed just like conventional tile and stone, porcelain tiles can handle high traffic areas like a kitchen with ease. Porcelain tiles are also easily adaptable to under flooring heating solutions, making porcelain tiles the most versatile of the top three cheapest kitchen flooring options.

Contact Holmes Flooring for Affordable Floor Coverings in Birmingham

Price conscious homeowners in Birmingham love shopping at our showroom in Leeds right off I-459 near the Bass Pro Shops. (View on MapQuest)

We offer free estimates on luxury vinyl, linoleum, and porcelain kitchen flooring. Holmes Flooring has been serving the greater Birmingham area for decades and we have completed over 15,000 flooring projects over the years. Check us out around the web:

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June 8, 2020 by Terry Holmes Carpet & Flooring

Working with Wood Flooring in your Alabama Home

There are basically two wood flooring options available to consumers: hardwoods and softwoods. If you choose to have hardwood flooring, you have three choices. Oak is a durable hardwood with a tight, dark grain. It is also the most popular wood flooring. The second most popular hardwood flooring is maple. It has a lighter color and has a less pronounced grain. The third type is ash. It is also popular, but not as popular as the first two. It has a uniform light texture and grain.

Among the softwoods, there are three popular choices too. The first is pine. Pine is often found in older homes. Another type is the birch. It is somewhat similar to pine, but usually has more knotholes. The third and last type is called fir. It has large patches of dark grain. If you cannot choose between the two types, there is also bamboo. A bamboo floor is more durable than most hardwoods. Or you could settle for specialty woods, if you have the budget. Specialty woods have a luxurious look about them. Popular choices include teak, cherry, and walnut.

Choose your hardwood flooring pattern

Now that you have chosen your wood type, let us move on to choosing the perfect pattern. The most common floor pattern is a straight one where the wood strips are laid parallel to each other along the length of the room. It is also the least expensive pattern. If you prefer to dress up your floor in a much nicer way, you may want to go for a diagonal pattern. A diagonal pattern makes for a nicer floor without much cost. It is done by laying the wood strips at a 45-degree angle to the walls.

Parquet and Herringbone Floor Patterns

 

Parquet is another popular hardwood pattern made up of individual square modules laid in crisscross fashion. The floor would look like a checkerboard.

Pictured below is an example of this style:

paraquet style example

Similar to the parquet, herringbone also has individual square modules with wood laid out, but in a diagonal angle. Perimeter border is a design accent that can be added to any wood flooring. The patterns are added to the edges of the wood floor. This pattern works for formal rooms like the dining room or the living room. 

This design is also used on the floors to separate adjacent rooms that do not have walls on them. This is done by installing a perimeter border between two adjacent rooms, giving a visual impression that the rooms are distinct from each other without interrupting the open flow. You’ve probably seen a herringbone style hardwood floor before, but you might not have known the name of the design pictured below until just now:

herringbone

Choosing the right floor stain

Next on the decision list is the choice of stain colors. If you wish to go “natural,” choose the natural stain color. It is wood color in its basic form. Light is popular because it darkens the grain and adds to a subtle tone to the wood. Medium stain is also quite popular. It is darker than light, giving both the grain and wood an obvious color. Dark stain gives floors a rich feel. But, this stain usually makes a room feel dark. If you are still undecided, you might opt for a custom stain color. This design includes a natural wood floor finish with a forest green perimeter border.

 

Too much to choose from?

If you’re overwhelmed with all the choices, Terry Holmes Flooring in Leeds is here to help. We offer expert in-home consultation and we can bring many different wood flooring samples to your home so you can see how they look with your existing decor. Simply give us a call or fill out our contact form to schedule your appointment with our local Alabama wood flooring experts.

 

About Us

 

Terry Holmes has been operating in the Leeds and Gardendale areas for decades now. His Showroom is just minutes from I-459 and includes carpet, hardwood and tile flooring samples from manufacturers like Shaw and DreamWeaver. Click here for directions to our retail location.

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