Kitchen remodeling floor

I’m gutting the kitchen… should the floor go in first or should I have the cabinets install first and have the floor meet up with the edge of the cabinets?

Cabinets first... You can mess up the floor. Plus why the HECK spend extra money for floor tile etc that will be UNDER a cabinet? If it is a WOOD floor can you imagine water damage to it? If tile could you imagine putting a NEW floor down with a cabinet on top? It's about Sensibility, not being cheap. If you are doing a tile floor then you need to go to the CENTER of the room, measure to find this. Pop a chalk line and look for square both east /west - north /south .. Stand up, look at it just to make sure.. Sometimes true measurements VIA walls, cabinets don’t look right. Adjust spacing of tiles from this point, just lay them down with no glue, set, mastic, etc… One row East/West and the other North/South. This just lets you know how much you can move. (You don’t want to be left with a 2” tile. That king of thing. Looks stupid and if it is ceramic or has more chance of breaking or coming loose.) At the cabinets in order for it to match up under the kick plate you can add a piece of ¼ round. But you want the tile or whatever to be a decent fit. (No large gaps)

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I'm planning to completely redo my kitchen and I'm not sure where I should start. I want to tear out some paneling and put up drywall, rip up linoleum and lay either a ceramic or vinyl tile floor and install all new cabinetry. Is there any particular order I should perform these projects? I figure the cabinets come last, but I wasn't really sure as I expect to change the layout of the cabinets and add a breakfast bar or island. So should I do that and then the floors around it?

In my experience (limited to a few remodels), the easiest approach is to first get rid of everything that isn't staying, do the wall work, then painting, then install the cabinets, and install flooring last if you are using wood laminate. Its a wast of money and time laying flooring underneath cabinets, and tile and laminate flooring is easier to fit after the cabinets are installed. With vinyl sheet flooring, its easier to roll out the sheet before installing the cabinets, and then place the cabinets on top of the new floor, or put the cabinets temporarily in place and trace the outline of the cabinets so you can trim the flooring. The existing flooring can be left in place as long as it is strongly adhered to the subfloor - its extremely difficult to get a smooth floor if you tear off the old flooring. Pulling up the old flooring and re-leveling the floor can take more time than the rest of the work.

The kitchen is small only 8 x 13 and two walls will have cabinets. I was told that future home owners will probably change the floor before changing the cabinets. I want to go ahead and tile underneath the cabinets. What is better????

If you don't tile under the cabinets you will have to raise them up off the floor slightly.....even the dishwasher. Else if the dishwasher has to be replaced you may not be able to get it out. Tiling under the cabinets makes it easier since everything is at the same level. I wouldn't worry about future home owners. It will be their problem.........

I see I'm in the minority here, but I always recommend tearing both the flooring and cabinetry up, followed by putting in new cabinets, and finally the flooring. I say this because you do not want to risk damaging your brand new floor by dragging and/or dropping cabinets on it. Another reason is, why spend the extra money on flooring and the labor (if you're paying someone to do it) to put down extra sq footage going under the cabinets? My advice, do some custom cuts on the floor to go around the cabinets, put down some quarter round where the floor meets the cabinets, and have a job done that looks better, cost less, and only took a little more time.

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