When it came time to select our flooring our initial thought was to go for cork because it is easy to install, comfortable to stand on, and we fell in love with dark rich variety. When we set it next to the wood cabinets that we were debating on buying, we realized that we would be making the room a cave with all of the dark brown towns, so we took a detour down the tile isle at Home Depot. There we saw a lot of nice tiles in grey tones like our inspiration room, but none we perfect so we began our hunting expedition. After Home Depot we tried a half dozen specialty tile shops which all had beautiful and insanely expensive tiles. Then when we were about to give up we stumbled on Maloney Tile, which is basically a small house that is jam packed with tile and there we found our winner, a 12 by 24 inch grey porcelain tile from Italy.
After selecting the tile, it was a simple matter of building a new subfloor, adding a waterproofing/decoupling membrane (rather than cement board), renting a tile saw, laying the tile, and grouting it.
In one Saturday we went from no floor to this perfect base for our new kitchen cabinets.
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