I spent all day putting new vinyl tile in the kitchen. I'm more than half finished, thankfully.
It's clearly more work than it's worth, IMHO. M. initially wanted to put Pergo (or similar) flooring down, but I'm not up to doing that myself. We ran a couple of bids for the work-- while we have the cash, that would be it on the home improvement front for at least six months.
When all was said and done we decided on doing vinyl squares instead. It's cheaper by more than half, quite durable (we'd already done that in the foyer & dining room), and very attractive. Frankly speaking we're not willing to spend that kind of money on a house we plan on selling in a few years anyway.
Yes, that's right, we had a tract home built and plan on selling it in about six years. Not for much profit of course; there's far, far too much tract housing going up around this time to net anything much-- despite the high turnover of military families. FWIW I'm willing to walk away from a sizable chunk of equity, as long as I can recover my VA eligibility. Equity I can't spend isn't really money in the bank, after all, so it's not as bad a loss as you might think.
The reason is we need a much smaller place once the kids are gone, especially so given M.'s multiple sclerosis. This house is simply too large even for the four of us, and the second story simply exacerbates the problem. I'd really like to hire an architect and a general contractor, and build; but I doubt I'll ever have the cash.