Vinyl Plank Flooring (LVP) Style for Rentals

[Brian M.]

What is your favorite vinyl plank flooring color(s) to use in your units?

I am working through making some cosmetic updates for a recent multifamily apartment building that we purchased. We are ripping out carpets and replacing the flooring with vinyl plank flooring. We are planning on painting the walls a very light grey with a hint of blue. 

We are looking at either a more modern grey-tone flooring or something with a little brown in it to be a little more traditional. The type of tenants in this area are usually middle-income and can range from a single 20+ year old to a 60 year old married couple and everything in between. We'd like to pick a color that will appeal to a wide-swath of tenants and still be appealing in 20+ years (i.e. not pick a color based on a fad alone).

I've included a couple examples of the options we are looking at so far:

Grey-toned with a little brown: https://www.lumberliquidators....

Very light brown tone: https://www.lumberliquidators....

About the same brown tone with lines between planks: https://www.lumberliquidators....

Thank you for your time,

Brian

[Filipe Pereira]

Originally posted by @Brian M.:

 We'd like to pick a color that will appeal to a wide-swath of tenants and still be appealing in 20+ years (i.e. not pick a color based on a fad alone).

I think the grey thing is a fad. Seriously, how long can we do grey walls, grey floors, and grey accents for?

Because of that, we go with a traditional brown LVP floor in all of our rentals. We use Lifeproof shadow hickory available off the shelf at home depot. I'd say 80% of our tenants are under 30 and all love how the apartments show. 

Are we missing a percentage of the population that wants grey everything? Sure - but we are building a portfolio that should transcend decades, and don't want to get caught in fads....shag carpet anyone?!