Checkerboard Kitchen Flooring

The kitchen is one of the most heavily used areas of the house and is accessible to guests as well. It is vital to ensure that your kitchen flooring is in sync with your personality and the overall décor scheme of the house.

Bored of the old look of the kitchen? Thinking of a kitchen remodeling project on a small budget?

Simply changing the floor can have dramatic consequences for any kitchen. Some home owners, for example paint a design on the kitchen floor or an eye catching border to give their kitchen a fresh look. Others are prepared to go the whole hog and change the flooring every few years.

Changing the flooring or tweaking it usually works out much cheaper than changing the cabinets, handles and color scheme of the kitchen.

Checkerboard Kitchen Floor

Among design styles, a popular flooring design is the checkerboard. Checkerboard kitchen floors were very popular in the 50’s and early sixties before they went out of fashion. Now checkerboard flooring has made a comeback and is the in thing. With multicolored Vinyl tiles and Linoleum flooring getting an unbeatable checkerboard floor is only as difficult as placing a call to Contempo Floor Coverings.

Checkerboard floors are not just limited to the kitchen. You can use them in your garage, utility room, laundry room, or entertainment room with stunning effect.

Checkerboard Styles and Flooring Materials

• Among famous buildings, checkerboard style flooring has been used in the Whitehouse, Rudyard Kipling’s house and the George Washington Memorial in Virginia to name a few.
• Black and White is the oldest checkerboard flooring style. These traditional, contrasting colors make a clean, yet contemporary and retro chic statement. While on the topic of black and white tiles, you can choose patterns other than checkerboard too. Black and white tiles give themselves to a lot of experimenting.
• If you are looking for solid black and white floors, ceramic tiles are more likely to fit your bill. Vinyl and Linoleum do have these basic colors but they may not be as ‘Solid’ as you desire.
• Besides these, Limestone, Marble and even Carpets can be used to create a timeless checkerboard floor.
• If you love hardwood flooring it is possible to have a checkerboard design by choosing light and dark colored hardwoods.
• Besides black and white checkerboards, other popular colors that can be paired with white are red, forest green, dark blue and deep purple. You could also try combinations like dark blue with beige.

Complementing the Checkerboard Floor

• In the kitchen, the checkerboard floor goes well with like colored appliances. Black appliances look a shade sleeker when paired with a black and white checkerboard floor in the kitchen.
• Pastel colors also go well with a checkerboard floor. When paired with a black and white checkerboard floor, these light colors actually soften the bold look and act as a perfect counterfoil.
• The checkerboard floor can further be complemented with strips of dark and light colors in curtains, checkerboard table cloths, appropriate napkins and candles.
• Mosaic tile backsplash is another option that goes well with a checkerboard floor.

A patterned floor is a great way of refreshing your kitchen. From simple paint jobs to complete floor replacement, from borders to eye catching murals you are limited only by your imagination when designing your patterned floor. The checkerboard floor is sure to give an instant fillip to the look of your kitchen.

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