How do people have wooden floors in their kitchen?

I'm also refusing to have a wooden floor in our new kitchen! It seems so impractical to me. The only person I know with a wooden kitchen floor (rental) had huge issues with it. Water marks, stains, hard to keep clean. Worst was damage from a hidden leak from the dishwasher.

We have wood look porcelain tiles and just love them. Mine are darker than the flooring shown on this thread, with brown grout. They are really durable, I asked our installer if they are as durable as we were told and he took one of his metal tools and scraped on it with the tool without leaving the smallest mar on the tile.

They are really easy to keep clean, too.

Actually it’s probably engineered oak but it’s definitely real wood . Super durable and looks great .

We have solid oak in the kitchen . It’s been down 16 years . Just got it sanded and it’s as good as new !

We have waterproof laminate from quickstep. It's brilliant, hard wearing and much cheaper than LVT. No water damage whatsoever to our kitchen so lives up to what it claims!

Engineered wood flooring can be sanded back and oiled. Very light sanding only!

My mum has wood effect tiles in her kitchen, best of both worlds! That's probably what I'll be getting when we do our kitchen in a couple of years.

We’ve got LVT, but it’s the premium kind that looks like wood. It cleans really easily. Although I can’t say we’ve needed to clean it often; even cooking with turmeric and having a two year old.

We have wooden floorboards which we painted, whenever they look tatty we repaint. Not a fan of LVT, wood look tiles or laminate.

In my last house I had reclaimed oak floor boards in the bathroom. I loved that they could be oiled and sanded and last forever and were a thing of beauty that brought me joy every time I looked at them.

In my new house I am having fake wooden floor in my kitchen when it is installed in a couple of months. It's not set in stone yet though and I would really love a real wooden floor. I don't want perfection where I see every fault but I really want real wood. Is it really so much more expensive and would I be mad (I have a slobbering, and often muddy dog)?

Can I jump in for advice please? We’ve had engineered wood in our kitchen and dining area for 9 years and it has generally lasted well. Some darker areas around cooker and sink but not bad. I still don’t really know what I should be cleaning it with - I use Method wood cleaner or Osmo. Main thing is - does it need resealing/oiling? We’ve never done it. Can’t find details from company as it’s a while ago.

Wood effect tiles.

I have porcelain herringbone and they're wonderful wood effect tiles , everything is wipe able!

We have Karndean wood effect flooring - it's brilliant for the dogs and for cleaning

https://www.flooringsupplies.co.uk/products/karndean-van-gogh-warm-brushed-oak-gluedown?gad_source=1&campaign=20153058932&content=&keyword=

We have 200 year old floor boards that the foolish owners before us covered with some tacky tiles. We restored it ourselves, osmo-oiled it and it will serve us another 100 years! We are big foodies and cook various cuisines from scratch every day too. Go for natural wooden floors. It's sustainable.

We just have floorboards. Nothing special, and the wear and tear is just characterful, which is why we opted for this, rather than any other flooring. The beauty of wood is that most things, when dropped, just bounce.

We've got wood effect tiles in our kitchen and we chose grey grout, much better choice than white, looks better anyway and won't discolour over time.

We have the original oak floorboards, they are varnished, so everything wipes off.

My mum has this too, from B&Q. Still looks as good as new 10 years later. No kids in her house and she is very tidy though.

I have wood effect laminate floorboards, which look lovely and match the real wood flooring throughout the rest of the house. They're very easy to clean.

We have engineered wood in our kitchen and I love it. We do a lot of cooking with spices and it’s not been a problem.
BUT It does scratch and mark a bit. Not too bad on our case but there’s only 2 of us in the house. I clean it with an oil cleaner once a week but do feel that’s not as efffective as cleaning with water which you can’t do.
I much prefer the more natural look of the wood as compared to amtico for example. But I do think it depends on how pristine and tidy you like things to look.
Here’s a photo of our “ worst” bit after 2 and a half years. In the main cooking area. And it’s a week since it was cleaned ( that’s my job for this afternoon)

@Lsit I think the grout colour is called sand. The tiles are an oak colour (not too dark) and the grout is a bit lighter

We have original wood floors in our house, I think it was built around 1920ish. Virtually all our cooking is Pakistani food, no turmeric or other stains. It just needs oiling once a year, and thats all it needs beyond usual floor cleaning.

We've had an engineering wood floor in the kichen for eight years, with no problems. It is a slightly darker, rustic oak and feel that if it get damaged it will add to its character.

"Ha ha, that's were Bob dropped his bottle of expensive red wine" sort of thing...