December 5, 2024
32 Kitchen Floor Ideas That Go the Extra Mile
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Adrian Gaut
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Mix-and-Match Floors

kitchen with light blue cabinetry, light yellow walls, island with butcher block top and two rattan backed stools and three teardrop pendants, windows over sink, terra cotta and white diamond shape floor tiles
Adrian Gaut

You’ll be seeing quite a few checkerboard floors in this roundup, but what’s special about this one—found in a Spanish-style Houston house designed by ELLE DECOR A-List firm Ashe Leandro—is the fact that it combines materials. At first glance, the tile is homogenous (aside from its contrasting colors). The reality is far more attractive, however: The floors feature both reclaimed terra-cotta tiles from Chateau Domingue and acid-washed limestone tiles from ABC Stone. Talk about a mix-and-match moment!

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Oak Floors (with a Twist)

kitchen with patterned floor and a fridge decorated by kid drawings
Joshua McHugh

There’s something so timeless about kitchen floors crafted out of natural wood. In the kitchen of designer Kimille Taylor’s Upper West Side apartment, timeless is not equated with boring, seeing as how the oak floors are painted with a custom geometric design. Tired of your own wooden floors but don’t want to overhaul them completely? Whip out the paintbrush!

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“Unexpected Red” Floors

a kitchen with a red floor, exposed dinnerware on shelves, and wood paneling
Maura McEvoy

The unexpected red theory proves true with this exuberant floor from Forbo, in the Berlin Red color. The pictured kitchen of a Maine vacation home also includes matching cabinetry finishes and a vintage pendant (by Paavo Tynell)—creating a truly put-together, fun-loving, retro space.

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Poured Concrete Kitchen Floors

a kitchen has wood cabinets and a stainless steel refrigerator, an island with curtains covering storage cubbies, a round black granite with four vintage wood chairs with leather seats, ceiling opens to floor above
Sam Frost

In the kitchen of a Venice, California, Frank Gehry–designed abode, industrial materials take center stage and are instantly made warmer through all those timber touches. The room’s concrete floors pair exceptionally well with the sleek granite breakfast table and its surrounding chairs.

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Lava Stone–Tiled Floors

a kitchen with turquoise tiled floor and a wood table with yellow chairs and a banquette with striped fabric, rattan pendant, counter with sink and shelves above and wood cabinets below, steps go to a doorway out to terrace
Matthieu Salvaing

This Ibiza kitchen, brought to life by Madrid-based interior design studio Casa Muñoz, has us in awe. Sure, that patio access is great and all, but the glazed lava tiles—in a turquoise hue imitating the sea beyond—are the real showstoppers. Decking out the countertops in the same material is yet another way Casa Muñoz outdoes itself in this Mediterranean tableau.

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Classic Checked Floors

modern kitchen with blue cabinets and checkered floor, as well as two windows and bouquets on the countertops
Christy Kosnic

In this galley kitchen, courtesy of Washington, D.C.–based design studio Third Street Architecture, a marble checkerboard floor is exactly what saves the space from feeling too constricted. The pattern has potential to visually expand your kitchen’s square footage, all while adding an element of play to the whole setup. More exciting meals incoming!

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Exposed Brick Floors

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Stephen Kent Johnson

Exposed brick isn’t just for your walls: Designer Shawn Henderson’s rustic floors in the kitchen of his upstate New York farmhouse stand out against the bleached oak cabinetry.

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Out-of-the-Box Terra-Cotta Floors

a kitchen with a stove, tiled backsplash in a white color, dark green cabinetry, and a lighter green wall coloring
William Jess Laird

In a 1950s California ranch, renovated to tip-top shape by design firm Studio Muka, the kitchen isn’t decked out in your average terra-cotta tile. Instead, the flooring is not only hexagonal but also reclaimed from the client’s 16th-century family home—a double whammy when it comes to building a cooking space with character.

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Red-and-White Checkered Floors

long kitchen with white cabinets and a red and white diagonal check floor with a long wooden table with chairs pulled up to it
Douglas Friedman

If you’re looking for a French touch in your cooking space, take a page out of ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Robert Couturier’s book. In this Manhattan townhouse, he paved the floor in a country-chic pattern of red-and-white cement tiles.

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Multihued Kitchen Floors

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Nova Soul Imagery

Want to rebel against the all-white kitchen aesthetic? Do so with a quirky, multicolored floor like the one seen in this Reston, Virginia, kitchen—designed by architect TJ Monahan and inspired by the hit show Only Murders in the Building. The hardwood floor planks from Mirth Studio are in competition with the kitchen cabinets for the “most vibrant” award, but we’re equally obsessed with both.

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Dark Wood Floors

noz nozawa mill valley california house
Christopher Stark

This Bay Area kitchen, by Noz Nozawa, is blessed with sky-high ceilings (not to mention towering redwoods within view outside). Nozawa accentuated the height via white walls, cabinets, and ceilings but kept the look grounded with chocolaty timber floors. Bonus: The vintage rugs add an endearing dash of color!

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Glazed Terra-Cotta Tile Floors

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Karyn Millet

The kitchen in this Spanish-style home, the residence of design-world insiders Joe Lucas and David Heikka, features glazed terra-cotta floors that were original to the house. The couple opted to keep them and simply douse the cabinets in a complementary bright blue. We’re charmed.

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Quartzite Floors

the kitchen has the same gray stone flooring, appliances, cabinets, counters, and island are in brushed stainless steel, candelabras, crystal dishes, and coffee urns adorn the island and countertops
Billal Taright

The creative challenge for this Parisian apartment, designed by architect Elliott Barnes, was to use a single material throughout the home. Barnes selected Vals quartzite—a durable and luxurious stone—for all of the home’s floors, including here in the kitchen where its smoky hue is in perfect contrast with the stainless steel cabinets.

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Blue Tile Floors

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Paul Raeside

We love these hypnotizing Emery & Cie floor tiles that British design firm Retrouvius used in the kitchen of this London townhouse. Like Picasso, your floors just might need a Blue Period.

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Painted Wood Floors

a kitchen has a long antique wood table with red chairs, a dark wood floor, light blue walls and ceiling, subway tiles surrounding a stove and pots and colanders hanging on both sides of it
Stephen Kent Johnson

Literary couple Darryl Pinckney and James Fenton, whose Harlem townhouse is drenched in color, painted the floors of their kitchen in Black Forest Green by Benjamin Moore. As a result, they’re now in fluid conversation with those bright red dining chairs and exposed brick wall.

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High-Gloss Black Floors

a kitchen white white walls and countertops black cabinets and a pink table
Douglas Friedman

Architectural designer Sandra Arndt went bold in the kitchen of filmmaker and collector Dorothy Berwin’s New York apartment. A bubblegum-pink table by Sabine Marcelis pops against the kitchen’s gleaming black floors, creating much-needed visual drama.

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Terrazzo Kitchen Floors

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Nathalie Krag

It’s no wonder that a pair of Capri restaurateurs have a standout kitchen in their home, designed by Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva. The wall tiles are custom, and the hand-poured terrazzo floor was influenced by the late-19th-century Villa San Michele on the island.

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3D-Effect Parquet Floors

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Eric Piasecki

Designer Steven Gambrel, whose name is synonymous with vibrant kitchens, created a custom 3D-effect floor in this Chicago home with oak that had been ebonized, fumed, and waxed. Trompe l’oeils for the win!

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Stone Tile Floors

spacious kitchen with facing islands in stainless steel and flush wooden wall to wall cabinetry on the back wall all seen though a wide arch
Kelly Marshall

You can’t get much sleeker than this minimalist kitchen in the Los Angeles home of Mara Brock Akil. ELLE DECOR A-List designer Tiffany Howell opted to keep the existing cool gray stone tile floor: a move that matches the twin stainless-steel islands and Arabescato marble walls.

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Patterned Tile Floors

in the kitchen is a small dining table and metal chairs with cushions, cementine floor tiles, a black cabinet holding bottles and objects on top, and cat seated on one of the chairs
Guido Taroni

Art historian Carolina Vincenti naturally selected antique cement tiles from 1925 to cover the kitchen floors of her Rome apartment. Matching yellow walls (and a feline companion!) complete the sunny look.

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Stacia Datskovska is the assistant digital editor at ELLE DECOR, where she covers news, trends, and ideas in the world of design. She also writes product reviews (like roundups of the top or )—infusing them with authority and wit. As an e-commerce intern at Mashable, Stacia wrote data-driven reviews of everything from e-readers to stationary bikes to robot vacuums. Stacia’s culture and lifestyle bylines have appeared in outlets like USA Today, Boston Globe, Teen Vogue, Food & Wine, and Brooklyn Magazine.

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Anna Fixsen is the deputy digital editor of ELLE DECOR, where she oversees all facets of ElleDecor.com. In addition to editing articles and developing digital strategy, she writes about the world’s most beautiful homes, reviews the chicest products (from the best to gifts), and reports on the most exciting trends in design and architecture. Since graduating from Columbia Journalism School, she’s spent the past decade as an editor at Architectural Digest, Metropolis, and Architectural Record and has written for outlets including the New York Times, Dwell, and more.

 

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