To replace lovely kitchen floor that's impossible to keep clean?

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All opinions welcome as I don't know if this is sensible or an outrageous waste.

We bought our house a while ago and it has a nice, largeish kitchen. The floor has perfectly nice, large square off-white tiles with a glossy finish.

We are not particularly dirty or messy and our house is pretty clean but not to a showhome level. We both work and have DC and pets. Within ten minutes of cleaning the floor, it looks dirty again. It shows every speck of dirt. After a few days since cleaning, it looks truly filthy. We have neither the time nor the energy to clean this floor every day.

So WIBU to get it ripped up and spend £ on putting down a darker, low maintenance one?

Ooh great tips about the colour of the grouting and also about not going too dark as it shows up white fluff and hair (we have a cat that is partly white). I also love the suggestion to buy something we are going to get anyway, as soon as possible to benefit longer. I love that! Thank you all.

Also don't buy gloss finish flooring..It gets scratched and so quickly looks perpetually dirty in traffic lanes..And dirt isn't glossy so it never really looks clean.

Just buy some lino and pit it down over the tiles. Less carry on, shouldn't cost a fortune and if you ever want to move, you can pull it up to show the posh tiles.

I picked a lovely lino to replace my floor with. My friend has it in her kitchen and you'd honestly have to examine it on your hands and knees to know for sure that it's not a semi-solid wood floor. But it's supposed to be very hard-wearing and wipe clean. It's just the thought of having to get the tiles up first that's filling me with dread. Glad my stupid tiles have cheered you up though. They are such stupid fuckers, they are even porous so the dirt really clings to them. I regularly mop the floor to get the worst of the dirt up but tbh, it has to be a really special occasion for me to go full scullery maid on them. Like the night before DS's birthday party and the 23rd of December!

I would. I have the same problem. Luckily the kitchen is 20 years old so needs replacing if we ever get the money but if not the floor is going!!! Yanbu at all.