If you needed to replace your carpet and vinyl flooring, as seen in this picture, what would you do? It's just for resale. Lower prices neighborhood so it can't be high end. The rest of downstairs is wood.
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Wood to match the rest
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Is leaving it alone an option?
Otherwise maybe laminate.
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As a buyer is like to see wood floors throughout. But since my knowledge of pricing on these things comes from hgtv, can't say how expensive it is and if it's worth it.
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Laminate
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I did vinyl "wood" and it looks awesome! Was very against it when the flooring ppl suggested it, but it's really easy to clean and doesn't get sratches from pet nails. Here's a pic of ours when it was installed.
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My SIL and BIL just recently installed groutable luxury vinyl tile in their kitchen and laundry room. They did it themselves in one weekend, and it only cost them a few hundred dollars. It looks great, and the only way I could tell it wasn't real tile was that it wasn't cold like a tile floor normally is.
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@Beth24: is yours vinyl planks or vinyl sheet? I think that's a big difference.
Is matching the other wood even an option?
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Pergo makes a really awesome laminate "tile." We used it in our kitchen. Ours is called Ligoria Slate and it was all done by Home Depot. Highly recommend. I'd look into something like this is wood to match the rest isn't an option. If you're doing laminate I'd go for the tile look to contrast the wood instead of a wood look that won't match everything else.
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@T.H.O.U.: vinyl planks
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@sunny: our agent told us in this market, we need to replace.
@Beth24: we would do that but we don't want to bump fake wood with the existing wood.
@T.H.O.U.: we are going to look into it but I think it may be more than we want to pay for since we are selling and not enjoying it.
@Angil2000: I hadn't heard of that. I'll look into it. -
@mediagirl: I think Pergo bumped up to existing wood won't look too bad. Either that or maybe some tile in the kitchen and Pergo in the carpeted area?
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Since you're bumping existing wood I'd look into allure vinyl tile by Home Depot. We did their snap together vinyl wood plank (like the pic above) in our basement and the stick down in our camper and both were good.
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If you don't want to do wood throughout I'd do some tile (large travertine or something similar).
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@mediagirl: I agree- don't put vinyl "wood" next to the real wood! I would probably do a laminate "tile" if you go that way. I assume that's way cheaper than real tile? (Never shopped around for this!)
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@Foodnerd81: oh yes.Tile and wood are quite expensive in comparison and we won't get the money out of it in our area. People want move in ready, but the type of flooring isn't that important.
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@mediagirl: We were actually able to get some pretty cheap tiles from an outlet store because we weren't super picky. The only thing I cared about was something neutral that wasn't too beige/yellow and the larger 20" style. It came out great and DH laid it and it wasn't too terrible.
I would lean towards replacing with whats already there. Tile for the kitchen and carpet for the living room.
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@Beth24: Yes the vinyl planks are amazing and the some can cost even more than real hardwood (because of the detailed texture, colors and durability).
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