Pity our poor kitchen floors – they do have a tough job. When they're not coping with spilled sauces, a confetti of toast crumbs or splashes from the sink, they're putting up with chair legs scraping ...

Q. Our plastic laminate kitchen countertops are in bad shape. They are square-edged instead of the common rounded-edge tops. I saw a television show where a person simply covered the laminate with ...

Q. We have pink 12-by-12 marble tiles in both of our bathrooms. We’d like to put in laminate vinyl flooring, like Coretec. If the marble tile is in good shape, can we install the laminate vinyl over ...

Laminate flooring costs about $3 to $13 per square foot, including labor. Installing laminate flooring on 1,000 square feet typically costs from $3,000 to $13,000, depending on the materials and other ...

Dear James: We have vinyl kitchen flooring which is badly worn. We think a ceramic tile floor would look good and wear well. Can this be put over any old floor and what are some installation tips? — ...

Laminate flooring can resemble almost anything: stone, tile, or wood. That’s because it’s composed of a photograph sandwiched between a dense fiberboard base and a clear plastic protective top layer.