@Dicey ah that one. I don't think it was any more expensive - if so, marginally? I did have to patch the floor there, turns out the previous owners installed hardwood around the existing cabinets so when we replaced that one with a corner unit, suddenly I was missing a chunk of floor x.x
The patch came out really well though! I was lucky and found matching hardwood at Home Depot.
I'm curious why you chose to angle it?
Eventually, I want to reconfigure our island. We have stone floors, which I have no hope of matching. The footprint will just have to be bigger.
Dicey, You’re the queen of creatively getting renovations to fit perfectly but if you have an smaller or odd footprint a mosaic or boarder (border? Boarder?) could look really nice. It would take some planning to make it look integrated and not like it’s just filling space, but I think it could be done.
Thanks for the compliment
@PMG , but that's kind of a funny topic. Our rentals are all in the same community. When they were built, typically the kitchen and hallways were tile and the rest was carpet. In a number of cases, the bathrooms were also carpeted, which is just gross. Over the years, people have installed tile where the carpet used to be. DH and I hate it, for several reasons. The most obvious one is the grout lines never match up.* Next is the tile thickness differs, third is the use of borders to "bridge" two or more different tiles, which never works after the fact. None of these options are aesthetically pleasing to us. Oh, and DH despises transition strips of all kinds. (Aren't we a fun pair?)
Two of the three rentals were tiled when they were built (no carpet, except for the bedrooms), so they're fine. The third had linoleum in one bath, carpet in another and glued down commercial carpet in the utility room. (Yes, we got a good deal on this one - it was ugly and smelled of sewage, complete with peeling linoleum around the stinky toilet. It was only a failed wax ring, for the win.) We ended up searching for and finding a wood grain tile that is the exact thickness of the existing tile, so it looks pretty good next to the existing tile.
Our own house is newer and a great room floor plan, but the builder cheaped out and put carpet in the "living room" portion of the room. Before we moved in, we
removed jackhammered out a couple rows of stone and replaced the carpet to improve the LR proportions. Imagine a large square divided into four quadrants. Three are tile and one is carpet, except the carpet part is(was) smaller than the other three sections. Now at least they're roughly equal, but we can't pull out any more stone. Then the tile continues down the hallways and into every bathroom and the laundry room. It's going to be a giant pain in the ass if there's no tile under the kitchen island. We could go with a similar solution to what we did in the rentals, but the tile in this house is actually stone** and is very thick. Oh, well, it's an MPP for sure.
*I hate uneven/unbalanced tile floor patterns so much that I paid $1/sf extra to have the tile installed on the diagonal when I bought the first house. It also happened to be very on trend at the time. Alas, now it looks a bit dated...
**Sorry, I have used the words tile and stone interchangeably. Most household tile is made of ceramic or porcelain and is usually thinner. Other times, natural material such as terrazzo, travertine, marble, clay, or cork is created in the shape of tile and they tend to be thicker. Ergo, "tile" is kind of a generic term.
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