Wooden floor in kitchen

[spiderbabymum]

Kitchen flooded so need new floor . Thinking of replacing lino with an old fashioned wood floor ....Oak or something . Think it will look graet as flat in old building. BUT wonder if wood planks completely impractical in a kitchen and with a 1 year old boy ? Any comments .?

Have an oak floor with 2 fairly young children. As long as you clear up spills fairly quickly and are not too precious about dents and scratches (which I think just make it looked lived on), it will be fine. Mine looks great.

We have wooden floor in our kitchen, all boards exposed in downstairs of house - done by previous owners who didn't need to worry about kids. Looks lovely and good for sweeping but I've never been 100% sure about best way to mop etc and the wood looks a bit rough in there compared to living room - probably cos it's been cleaned a bit more vigorously. Sure there is a way to do it though but personally I don't think it's the best place for a wood floor.

If you're in a flat I'd check the lease too - wood floors often restricted due to driving the downstairs neighbours nuts. Obviously not a problem if you're on the ground floor.

basement flat so no probs there....thanks for your tips . types one handed . gotta go ......nappy . !

I think its fine as long as fitted really well with NO GAPS (speak from experience of a wooden kitchen floor with wide gaps, yuck).
Astonish do some good floor cleaning products for wood which are very gentle.