What suits you

[Mike J]

I would go for tile.  It will basically last forever and no worry about termites.  In our beach cottage we wanted the look of wood in the living room and found a nice tile with a wood grain pattern.  I snapped this picture from our dirty kitchen of our house where we used some left over tiles under the counter.  Tiles are 60 x 60 cm, and each "plank" is about 15 cm wide.  I have done a lot of remodeling that included tile work.  Anytime I do tile I always buy extra tile and store it away.  If a tile should crack or break you can chisel it out and do a replacement.  I dropped a cast iron skillet on the kitchen floor one time and having a replacement tile saved me from "how could you let that happen" to "wow, that is amazing how you fixed that". 

[Marvin Boggs]

Anyone experimented with tinted concrete, or epoxy floors?  

[Gary D]

15 minutes ago, Marvin Boggs said:

Anyone experimented with tinted concrete, or epoxy floors?  

Tinted floors are more the norm out in the provinces apart from the bathroom, only rich foreigners have tiled floors. When the floor is layed and still wet a powder is sprinkled on the surface, usually red, and then once dry polished with a floor wax. Mind you the family's original house didn't even have concreted floors when I first visited.

[Marvin Boggs]

That explains the red tint in our family's house then.  I figured it was just paint.  Have seen some really nice architectural effects, just don't know much about doing it.  I'm leaning toward one of these methods (concrete or epoxy coat) when we build.  I may get talked into tile or vinyl flooring though.  

 

[virginprune]

We went for tiles, if not in direct sunlight they should not get warm, mine are definitively cool on the feet. Ours are wood plank effect which suits the exposed brick walls we opted for.

On our verandah we used the red dye in cement, it's ok but in the future we will tile that also.

 

 

Edited September 25, 2019 by virginprune
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[Gary D]

9 hours ago, Marvin Boggs said:

That explains the red tint in our family's house then.  I figured it was just paint.  Have seen some really nice architectural effects, just don't know much about doing it.  I'm leaning toward one of these methods (concrete or epoxy coat) when we build.  I may get talked into tile or vinyl flooring though.  

 

The vinyl tends to be very low quality and gets ragged very quickly.

Edited September 25, 2019 by Gary D

[RobH]

7 hours ago, virginprune said:

We went for tiles, if not in direct sunlight they should not get warm, mine are definitively cool on the feet. Ours are wood plank effect which suits the exposed brick walls we opted for.

we have the same tiles, I thought they were wood when I first saw them, nice. Whilst talking about tiles has anyone noticed that there are no edge tiles here, with the small radius. all the tiles in the house have sharp edges.looks bloody awful when it gets to the edge.

 

[virginprune]

12 minutes ago, RobH said:

we have the same tiles, I thought they were wood when I first saw them, nice. Whilst talking about tiles has anyone noticed that there are no edge tiles here, with the small radius. all the tiles in the house have sharp edges.looks bloody awful when it gets to the edge.

 

We used these edging strips, available in citi hardware.

 

[RobH]

Thats OK for the floor. I was thinking about the bathroom we have tiled surrounds to the hand basin fine till you get to the edge, then you get the raw tile colour, and a sharp edge.

 

[scott h]

27 minutes ago, RobH said:

I was thinking about the bathroom we have tiled surrounds

This is what we did