If you have a white kitchen floor that you love, please tell me about it

[MissWing]

In my dreams, my kitchen has whitewashed wooden floorboards......in reality what can I put down that will look this beautiful but be able to withstand daily wear and tear?

We are not a 'shoes off' house. There will be patio doors to the garden so in winter there will be wet feet coming in. Oh, and we are planning underfloor heating.

Will an engineered floor from someone like khars do the trick?

www.flooringsupplies.co.uk/realwoodflooring/engineeredwoodflooring/10566/kahrs_oak_arctic_engineered_wood_flooring?adtype=pla&keyword=&gclid=CjgKEAjwwPabBRCXo46OtM_RhGMSJACgCeqAMya7vgGXA-ugLN2gGmNLNKQiBukKVSkq_mTdH14gnPD_BwE

Or do I need to forget the wood and go for porcelain tiles? Something like this?

www.tonsoftiles.co.uk/item/6-kitchen-tiles/1288-limestone-effect-porcelain-floor-tile-60x60cm

Thanks!

Surely white kitchen floors only exist in magazines? Real people in real life dont actually have white floors - do they??

We have had this for the last year and love it. Environmentally friendly too. www.hardwoodfloors.uk.com/bamboo/white

we have fired earth white washed wood effect porcelain tiles - its lush

www.firedearth.com/tiles/range/rye-harbour-1/limed

Brilliant.both of those look beautiful. Goodlife, what colour grout did you use?
Thanks again.

I have 60x30 off white polished porcelain floors, in my kitchen, utility, hall and cloakroom, with cream grout. They are surprisingly easy to keep clean and we have a 4 yo and a large dog. They do look beautiful and even delivery people comment on them.

I bought my house with its white tile kitchen floor. I thought it had black grout. I was wrong [boak] just a slatternly ex owner. The grout has however come up reasonably well with bleach and elbow grease.

As for keeping it clean, I sweep every day, as any little speck or dirt shows up, and when I mop I put bleach in the bucket and it tends to come up nicely.

Tis a pain, especially now we are in and out of the garden, and I don't have any kids running around yet!

There are some nice very pale wood effect Amtico and Karndean styles (and Harvey Maria has one too). But that's vinyl flooring which would be very very practical but possibly not what you had in mind.

I had white porcelain tiles with grey grout in my old house. It looked lovely when freshly mopped... But I have long dark hair and within minutes there would be a hair or 2 on the floor (which really showed up)

I wouldn't have tiles again, I'm clumsy and it cost too much in broken cups, glasses and tiles.

I have limestone and a cream grout.

Its beautiful truly beautiful.

But its totally not practical - and like a eminybob says the grout soon discolours. I spend hours on my knees with a toothbrush when the mood takes me.

We have white ceramic tiles and they are lovely. We have a dyson hand held that we use to zap crumbs and I do a broom sweep once or twice a week, apart from that most weeks the cleaning ladies mop it (they use proper old school rope type twizzly mops) and it comes up beautifully. I will occasionally give it a steam at a weekend if it's particularly bad but that is very rare....

It looks gorgeous particularly in the summer - everyone who comes into the house says it's just like being on holiday - I think they all associate white tiled floors with apratments and villas in the med .

Thanks again all. V informative!

I have white porcelain kitchen floor tiles. They are Italian and a thing of beauty. Or they were. Once. For the 5 minutes or so that they were clean before dogs and kids. Now I just hope people look at them and thing they're supposed to be that kind of dull, off white grubby colour.

Excuse the fuzzy out of focus mermaid but this is our floor, we wipe splashes off as and when, DH runs the sweeper over daily (we have a brown dog) and it is mopped once a week, always looks lovely. About once every two years we scrub the grout with grout cleaner.

i have a pale grey grout - perfect!!

I also love a pale kitchen floor. Over many years I have failed to achieve a satisfactory result.

whitewashed wooden floorboards

Did this about 10 years ago. Never again . We didn't even have pets or DC then.

Pale amtico was expensive but looked good at first. However the non-slip surface became grimy and I could never get it properly clean after a couple of years (even with a steam mop). I also had a bit of a twitchy eye about "Lino" that I could never quite get over.

Pale tiles with dark grey grout are fantastic for cleanliness and longevity. Unfortunately they are cold and hard underfoot. If you drop something it WILL break.

Tiling onto a suspended wooden floor in an old house is a pita too - you need expensive subfloor prep and layers of Duravit etc if you are to avoid movement and thus cracking. Fine in newer build or concrete floors of course. It wasn't worth the money IMO.

I now have an engineered wood floor in a pale colour. I like it, it works for us but I still hanker after those lovely coastal white washed floorboards.

We were recommended to have grey grout with the white tiles when we were buying them. The salesperson said we would drive ourselves insane trying to keep white grout white.

OK fab. Lessons learned are
Porcelain tiles are the solution
Concrete floor plus underfloor heating solve the movement and cold problems
Grey grout gets the thumbs up.
Buy rubber glasses and plates
We need to let go of the white wooden floorboards
Mermaids are awesome

Thanks!

Oh have also realised we got our tiles from Tonsoftiles, they were fab, even down to the delivery man who have to manhandle 35sqm of tiles up the drive, poor man.

Its hard to see the tiles haveto. I'm distracted by how adorable the mermaid is :-)