Our new kitchen diner will be ready to start decorating in a few months so I need to decide what we are going for. It is a large room (approx 7.9x4.8m) with a kitchen at one end and a dining table and small sofa area at the other. I am not keen on tiles as we are not having underfloor heating and I don't think they look as nice as wood for the sofa/diner end. I want the same flooring all over so can't do tiles one end and wood the other.
Which type of flooring is better when you have a family? Obviously needs to be as scratch proof as poss and as water resistant as poss. We are flooring under the cabinets and using resin (I think that is what DH said!) to bond planks together to stop water getting through. Our budget is about £30 a sq metre.
For the worktop I wanted something dark and preferably not shiny - the cupboards will be cream shaker style. Basically the easiest to look after is what I need and that doesn't need to be cleaned every other seconds or the crumbs/dust/watermarks will show. We need 3.6m of regular worktop then an island worktop that will measure 1.2x2.1m so we can't really do laminate as I don't want a join. Budget is around £2.8k inc fitting.
Any ideas?