Pergo or engineered and color?

Catherine
by Catherine
i will be installing same flooring through kitchen living room and dining room. Can’t decide on color or material. Kitchen will be white cabinets and living room will have old Chinese rug in creams and blues. I like the color of my existing floor but it is discontinued and can’t find anything like it
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  • Had Pergo and ripped it out and installing hardwood. You can purchase unfinished hardwood and have stained to your desired color. That is my vote!

  • Charmaine Charmaine on Apr 14, 2018

    we tore out our engineered hardwood floor due to dog damage (when we bought that floor we had no dogs. Then we got to English springer spaniels). Now we have waterproof, luxury vinyl plank floors that are gorgeous.

  • Nancy Turner Nancy Turner on Apr 14, 2018

    The vinyl plank is supposed to be easy to install, the ones I am looking at have the padding on it and you only need three inexpensive tools to install it. If your floors are in good shape and level, you can install it on top of your hardwood, that is what we plan to do. Our four dogs are too hard on the finish of the hardwood.

  • Anne Anne on Apr 14, 2018

    It depends on your budget. Hardwood floors are expensive however you can stain them however you wish. Manufactured hardwood floors are also very nice and not that expensive. There are a variety of colors available. One thing to consider is the thickness. Also in all cases, the darker the floor, the more noticeable any scratches will show. I would recommend staying in a neutral shade for your floors. Good luck.


  • Sharon Sharon on Apr 14, 2018

    Beautiful old rug but looks like it really needs a good cleaning as the dirt will destroy the fibers, and maybe have them add a stain resistant finish on it.

    Pergo is engineered hardwood. If you like your existing floor, get real hardwood and have the guy match the stain, my paint guy did an excellent job matching the stain on patches for my really old cedar after a fireplace removal.

    • Catherine Catherine on Apr 14, 2018

      Carpet was recently cleaned the pile changes direction when it is vacuumed

  • Johnavallance82 Johnavallance82 on Apr 14, 2018

    Bluey/grey slate look or Light/Medium wood look............

  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Apr 14, 2018

    research vinyl planking that is now the number one selling floating floor

  • Laura Cooper Laura Cooper on Apr 14, 2018

    Engineered hardwood is by far the most durable and stable product. Voice of experience here...

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    • Laura Cooper Laura Cooper on Apr 16, 2018

      I wish I could tell you, but it's been 3 years ago now and I don't remember. It is in the warm medium tones, however. We really wanted a darker shade, but I've been happy with this because it doesn't show dust terribly like dark wood and it's still a rich color. I would recommend the same for you. Go with a deep color in the middle of the spectrum for warmth and contrast for your beautiful rugs and white cabinets. Avoid the really dark or really light woods

  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Apr 16, 2018

    Vinyl planking can be used anywhere

  • Tammylu Tammylu on Apr 16, 2018

    Love vinyl plank

  • Patrick Dinehart Patrick Dinehart on Dec 06, 2019

    High quality luxury vinyl plank has great visuals now! Most luxury vinyl plank is imported from China, and there are two kinds of LVP: WPC and SPC.


    These stand for Wood Composite Core and Solid Polymer Core. If you want to learn more of the technical side of luxury vinyl plank I encourage you read this blog all about what LVP is and what its made of: https://www.reallycheapfloors.com/blog/what-is-luxury-vinyl-plank-flooring/


    SPC is a more stable, durable, and dent resistant vinyl plank than WPC.


    If you get an aluminum oxide wear layer(in blog) LVP floor, you'll find that it can last longer than hardwood floors. There will be less signs of wear and its more resistant to scratching and denting than wood.


    The only downside I can think of is the housing market evaluation isn't widely favoring lvp yet. Your home will most likely increase in value from hardwood floors for the next 5-10 years. If you plan on selling your home in the near future, I would hold off on luxury vinyl plank.


    LVP used to be known as more durable and uglier than hardwood floors. Now LVP caught up in the textured and high quality visuals department. I hope my answer helped Catherine.  I marked out the name and pricing in the photo because I'm not selling this, its just a nice weathered look that's really in-trend these days.