Laundry Room Flooring, Help Me Pick

Things around the ranch the last few months have been hectic and full of anxiety, not to mention all I remember of the winter is snow and freezing temperatures.

We were just starting to wind down on stuff, like two surgeries and tests, only to have someone suffer a broken heart (not of the medical kind), another one have a mysterious new suitor, and then catastrophe of all catastrophes ......

                                                            the washing machine broke.

There are plenty of appliances, gadgets and technologically advanced things that I can do without in my life, but my washing machine is not one of them.  And you know how it goes in the home of DIY'ers - one project leads to another.

So while we were busy taking out the old machines and putting in the new.....

I got the brilliant idea that it was time to update our laundry room flooring.

Of course the time to do that would of been while the machines were out of the room, but no matter, we can move them all over again.


The floor isn't anything to get excited about.  Back when we installed it, I went for plain white vinyl.

It's directly on cement and someone has a tendency to turn the laundry room sink on and forget about it till if overflows.  Not saying who, but wood or ceramic or anything with seams that water can seep underneath is not an option.

And can someone tell me why anyone would put a pattern-less all white floor in ANY room when they have six kids?  Every speck of everything was there for me to see - all.the.time.

I'd love to say I only made that mistake once, but nope... I put white ceramic tile in the mud room.  What kind of decorating idiot does that? The mud room where a Great Dane laid around and those same six kids took off muddy shoes and left them lay on white ceramic tile.

It's gone now - both the Great Dane and the white ceramic.

Since it's obvious I am unable to make flooring decisions on my own, I'm asking you to help me pick.

I'd like to keep it light and airy because there are no windows.  So right off the bat I said no to the faux wood vinyl floor with a hand-scraped look that I really really like...

 Whadda 'ya think?  Those of you with laundry room dungeons, would that be too dark?  I sure like that rustic look.

And who am I kidding, I rarely see the floor anyway, it's usually covered with clean laundry from the baskets after some naked person ransacked the room looking for socks that match.

The floor below is a combination of a dark and light, and I like the grays with that brown.  But still too dark?  Lint and pebbles have a better chance of not showing, then again so do spiders.

This one might have too many variations huh?  Too busy for a small laundry room?

 

Then there is the fake stone marble look of the last vinyl, the photo is not so good - the real thing doesn't have that brown tone, so I will include a photo of the sample here with me. 

The color is more accurate in the last photo.  The vinyl is a decent replica of those vintagy ceramic tiles, with lots of grays, yet white to still keep the room light and spiders visible.

The one thing they all have in common, except for the wood, is that they have a stone look.

So help.  They are all on sale right now.

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