the kitchen is pretty spacious, but is it possible to put tiles on top of wood?
vinyl tiles? or ceramic tiles. The answer is yes. You would have to prepare the floor and buy the materials.It can be done. Get a professional to do it. The sides and edges can get iffy and you need a special saw for the tiles, it is not easy but the pros can do it really fast and even,as it is pretty hard to just get the floor prepared. Tile looking floor panels are faster to put in than ceramic tiles..
You can do either, but as one person mentioned, there is a possibility that the old linoleum is backed with a material containing asbestos. Just lay the cement on top of the vinyl, leveling as you go. Another advantage to this method is that you might decide you want wood floors at some point and you might ruin it if you apply the new tile to the wood.
The number 1 reason to keep the vinyl and use tile over the existing floor is that you may run the risk of asbestos exposure depending on how old your floor is. Just go to Home Depot or any other flooring supply store and use wonderboard or hardibacker (1/4 thickness sheet) to use as an underlaymnet over the vinyl.
I disagree with the other answer. I have put ceramic tile on several floors that had a wood subfloor and vinyl tile on top. Unless your subfloor is very unstable, ceramic tiles will do fine if correctly installed. Ask at Home Depot for the correct kind of Thinset to put on top of vinyl.
I had the same cocern when I was remodeling my kitchen. I had a linoleum floor and wanted to change to tiles. I ripped out my old linoleum floor only because I wanted to keep the increase of the new flooring to a min. Everybody I taked to suggested to use backerboard over your sub floor if you want your new floor to last. Use 1/4 if you subfloor is relativley stable, 1/2 backerboard if not. But remember the difference in height of your new floor with the thickness of the backer board and tiles.
