How do people have wooden floors in their kitchen?

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Dh and I have finally taken the plunge and started kitchen extension. We will now have a kitchen, island, dining space and tv area.

Have obviously been doing a lot of research. Pinterest has shown me A LOT of kitchens with what appears to be wooden flooring. But to me this seems so impractical. We cook with a lot of spices e.g. daals and i can see turmeric sauces getting everywhere.

Are people using wood effect alternatives? Or is there just very robust staining/protection going on.

I love the look (especially light coloured oak) but would be devastated if it got ruined. Which absolutely would with kids and a dog. Plus a dh in whose soul goal in life is to drop things.

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 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=

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

Thanks all. Amazing. Think I will prob skip real wood then as we are very messy people. Just wiped up a spilt tea stain.

Wood effect tiles.

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.

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)?

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.