If you are looking to do some kitchen renovation, or building your kitchen from scratch, here are a couple of kitchen flooring design tips to note when choosing a flooring for a functional, yet beautiful kitchen.
 

#1 Light or Dark Flooring

When exploring kitchen flooring ideas, it is important to ask: “Do I want a light or dark colour for my kitchen floor?” The colour choice will determine how you feel in the kitchen, especially in the midst of all that messy food preparation!

In Singapore, popular kitchen flooring colours tend to be on the lighter spectrum. Light-coloured flooring is better at hiding past accidents and scratches, and it also helps the kitchen appear airy and spacious. This is especially suitable for homeowners with small kitchens. However, while keeping things light-coloured in the kitchen makes it look larger, The Floor Gallery recommends adding some dark furniture to balance out the brightness and to avoid having it look too clinical.

While dark-coloured kitchen flooring designs are not common locally, it is worth noting that they can hide oil and food stains better and is generally a unique choice across Singapore homes. This is an option for homeowners who love being bold with their home interior design or require child-friendly kitchen flooring in their households. If you like a darker kitchen floor but worry about it looking too somber, you may add light-coloured furniture, or have the walls and ceiling painted in light colours for some contrast.
 

  

#2 Use of Floor Patterns

Another kitchen flooring design that can quickly enhance your home’s overall aesthetics is the use of patterned floor tiles for your kitchen. It will not only reduce visibility on dust and dirt, but it also adds  character to your home. If cooking is your thing and the kitchen is your sacred creative space, kitchen floor tiles with patterned designs will easily allow you to express your style as an extension of your personality.

What’s even better is that kitchen flooring is no longer just limited to your standard ceramic tiles! With a wide range of kitchen flooring options nowadays, the sky’s the limit when it comes to designing your dream kitchen.
 

  

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#1 Highly Water Resistant

The number one thing a working kitchen needs to have is a flooring that is highly water resistant. This will hence, make the flooring easy to wash and clean.

#2 Slip Resistant

While washing or cleaning your kitchen flooring with soapy water, one thing to caution about is potentially slipping accidents. This is especially so when it comes to ceramic tiles. Eco resilient flooring is tested to be highly slip resistant, hence after the washing, you will still feel assured that slipping is minimised. This is therefore recommended for families with elderly parents who always do the cooking or laundry.

#3 Impact Resistant

Touch wood, though there is no wood. Even if an unlikely scenario of slipping accident, the cushion effect of eco resilient flooring greatly reduce the impact of the fall. Therefore, it enhances safety at home.

#4 Stain Resistant

Stubborn oil stains that gives you the headache of cleaning it away. No worries about it when you have eco resilient flooring.

#5 Heat Resistance

Intense cooking cause one to feel very hot in the room. If the flooring is not a good insulator of heat like ceramic tiles, sometimes you may feel your feet being uncomfortable. As for eco resilient flooring which is highly heat resistant, you have no worries about uncomfortable feet.

#6 Fire Resistance

Eco resilient flooring (ERF) has been tested to have high quality standards in terms of fire resistance such as the credible CE rating and other European (EN) standard test. Hence, such feature enhances safety at home. In the event of fire incident (touch many wood, please), fire spread will be greatly reduced with eco resilient flooring compared with non-quality vinyl or resilient flooring.

#7 Certified Eco Friendly

One reason to choose eco resilient flooring for your kitchen is because it is certified eco-friendly such that it has credible accreditation such as the Singapore Green Label. Certified eco-flooring products are tested based on stringent standards such as indoor air quality, composite of safety materials used to manufacture the product, VOC emission and formaldehyde emission rate. By installing certified eco friendly flooring products, one will therefore feel extra safe at home.

Hope you have a clear understanding of eco resilient flooring (ERF) and why is it different from most types of clickable resilient flooring in the market.

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Ease to install

You just got the key to your new house and cannot wait to move in. Yet, renovation has to complete. The flooring is one of the reasons for the long wait time for the renovation to be completed. Hence, having an ease to install flooring will help you to move into your love nest at the soonest possible.

Highly Slip Resistant

Watery and slippery floor is, sometimes, inevitable in a kitchen. We tend to wash the kitchen, wash the utensils, and we may leave traces of water behind. Hence, kitchen is known to be one of the most dangerous place in your home, beside the bathroom. Having a slip resistant flooring will make your kitchen safer for all of your family member, be it young or old, alike.

Ease to Maintain

Kitchen, a place where oil stained are easily found, especially if you do not clean the area after cooking. It is a high maintenance area in the house. Therefore, for any family, to have an easy to maintain flooring will help. Lesser time spent on cleaning also equates to more time spent enjoying the good food you just created in the kitchen with your family.

Highly waterproof

Everyone would want to have a flooring that last. Having a highly waterproof flooring will ensure that your flooring is in good condition as no water can slip through to the base. Having this in mind, it also means there is no chance of having mouldy floor. This is critical to areas like the kitchen, as that is where food of all types are handled.

After listing down the characteristics and the reasons, we highly recommended Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF) as the recommended kitchen flooring. Besides the listed reasons, Eco Resilient Flooring is also Eco Friendly. Eco Resilient Flooring is one of the fewest clickable resilient flooring products that has been awarded The Singapore Green Label. Hence, Who would not want such flooring with so much benefits?

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The Rise of Clickable Resilient Flooring

With the advent of flooring technology, we can start to see clickable resilient flooring products in the Singapore flooring market especially during the 2010s. These clickable resilient flooring which today has many terms created by the local flooring distributors using words like high end, luxury and others, though they are talking about the same thing. However not to be confused, these generic conventional clickable resilient flooring has some good common features that are good to be use as kitchen flooring. These features are being a hundred percent waterproof which made it easy to clean and wash. Unlike laminate flooring and wood flooring, too much water may not be good for them. The others essential features for the clickable resilient flooring also include, high slip resistance, impact resistance, termite proof and various wood like designs.

Though it may look good especially it gives home owners more choices for the kitchen now compare to the past when often ceramic or granite is the choice; most clickable resilient flooring products may not have another important feature, and that is, certified eco friendly properties. There during between 2015 and 2016 period, the Singapore flooring market started to see the rise of Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF).

The Perfect Kitchen Flooring

Basically, eco resilient flooring is the advanced or improved version of the generic clickable resilient flooring products.  It has similar properties to that of a clickable resilient flooring such as waterproof, termite proof,  high slip resistance, impact resistance and others. The only difference, and perhaps the key difference, is that the flooring is certified eco friendly.

What to do look for in a certified eco friendly flooring product?

The common misconception for a certified eco friendly flooring product is that it is made of recycled or recyclable products. However the most important factor of  a certified eco friendly flooring is firstly, it does not contain any harmful substances or metal material; and secondly, it ensures better indoor air quality especially for homes and offices or when enclosed spaces is concerned. The best way to look into whether a flooring product is certified eco friendly is to check for credible certifications such as the Singapore Green Label. Therefore, eco resilient flooring (ERF) is a recommended flooring for the kitchen due to it being waterproof while at the same time certified eco friendly.

Design Your Kitchen Floor!

Now with clickable resilient flooring and eco resilient flooring, it somehow make the kitchen more colourful! For example, you can select from a variety of wood inspired designs or even unique designs like cements, travertine and many for eco resilient flooring. So, it is kinda cool, right?

In a nutshell, as flooring technology advances, home owners will get to enjoy a wide variety of choices and eco friendly choices for the kitchen flooring. So, start design your kitchen today!

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With the wide range of options nowadays, kitchen flooring is no longer just limited to your standard floor tiles. Here are three popular kitchen flooring options you can find in Singapore.

#1 Ceramic & Stone Kitchen Floor Tiles

Ceramic or stone tiles are a common kitchen flooring option. In fact, it usually comes installed with the original BTO, HDB, or condominium condition. There are tiles with rough texture that make it a great non-slip kitchen flooring choice. However, one disadvantage of ceramic or stone kitchen flooring tiles is that they are not the easiest to clean. This is especially so when it comes to the rugged details, such as stain in between the tiles line or grain texture.

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#2 Click Resilient Flooring

Click resilient flooring – also known as bespoke, high end and luxury – are great for both wet and dry kitchens. This is because of its highly waterproof flooring properties and easy click-lock overlay flooring installation. A bonus is that it has a variety of unique wood-like designs! With this alternative overlay kitchen flooring option, home owners can go beyond conventional boring tiles, and customise their kitchen’s interior according to their home’s design theme. Offering one of the strongest click systems in the market, The Floor Gallery’s Eco Protect Resilient Flooring ensures one of the smoothest and most elegant kitchen flooring installations.

#3 Vinyl Flooring For Kitchen

(100% Waterproof Hybrid Eco RigidTech Flooring)

Vinyl flooring options, especially commercially graded ones, have higher resistance to water and heavy loads, making it extremely suitable as wet kitchen flooring as well as commercial kitchen flooring in Singapore. What’s more, its waterproof flooring qualities make cleaning the kitchen a breeze.

#4 Laminate Flooring For Kitchen

In comparison, laminate flooring or wood parquet flooring may not be good options for wet kitchen flooring. The waterproof and moisture-resistant properties of most laminate flooring materials are relatively lower than that of our recommended vinyl flooring options. However, if home owners do not cook much at home, laminate or wood parquet flooring can still be viable kitchen flooring options.

Take your time in finding the best kitchen flooring option for your home. The master chefs in your life will thank you!

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