How to Add Environmental Style to Your Kitchen Flooring

                                                                                         

Looking to redo your kitchen flooring? Put aside boring thoughts of linoleum and consider a more unique choice. Think bamboo and cork. Yes! Bamboo and cork! Never thought about bamboo and cork on your kitchen floor? Here’s why you should think about it.

Perhaps the Best Kitchen Flooring Material Mom Never Told You About - Cork

Gives Under Foot

As with the cork in a bottle of wine, cork flooring “gives” when confronted with pressure, and is thus comfortable to walk on. Further, cork’s ability to absorb impact means you’ll end up with fewer broken plates if, like me, you occasionally drop one while emptying your dishwasher. (If you have young, accident prone children, this feature will serve you and your wallet well!) However, you don’t need to worry about your cork flooring denting as it always springs back to a flat surface.

Cork Can Match Your Kitchen Decor

Black, green and red are just a few of the colors that your cork flooring can come in, so you can, if you want, coordinate it with your existing kitchen colors.

Good for the Environment

Because cork comes from tree bark, and not the tree’s base wood, cork isn’t harmful to the environment. So when you get cork kitchen flooring, you aren’t contributing to deforestation.

A Quiet House?

Cork also absorbs sound, helping to reduce household noise in an often noisy room, the kitchen, where hungry family members congregate.

Bamboo – Not Just for Pandas

As is Cork, Bamboo is a Friend to the Environment

Fortunately, bamboo is actually a grass. It’s not a tree derivative. Thus, it’s harvested in only 2 years, rather than in the 50 to 100 years it takes for a tree to mature, limiting its impact on the environment as reforestation occurs quickly.

Nature Will Make Your Kitchen Attractive

Bamboo is generally yellow or golden in tone, with natural grain marks. This will bring a warm, inviting feel to your kitchen with an exotic accent. Since there are few color options for bamboo flooring, make sure you are comfortable with its color before purchase. Further, you can choose the grains in your bamboo flooring to run either horizontally or vertically along the plank, which is the building block that bamboo flooring usually comes in.

Not Just Beauty

Watching pandas chew bamboo in the wild, you might think it breaks easy, making your kitchen floor unacceptably fragile. But bamboo is actually stronger than oak! Thus, you don’t have to worry. Bamboo is strong enough to stand up to the challenge of your family and furniture.

Perhaps Cork and Bamboo are Viable Options For You….

So if you want practical yet unique kitchen flooring, consider cork and bamboo. They each run about $5 per square foot, putting it slightly on the expensive side. But if you don’t mind the extra expense, you could have a unique kitchen you could be proud of.

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