White floor in a kitchen - tell me it's madness

[BovrilonToast]

The house we are buying has a large kitchen diner 7m x 4m.

It's quite dark though as it goes back quite deeply in to the house iyswim...

So, I've seen lots of lovely kitchens online with white floors. I love them.

Talk me out of this please. Clearly a white floor is ridiculous.

[Hassled]

If you only ever ate porridge and rice and other white things you could get away with it. Yoghurt? I'm running out of white food.

I too have seen white floors and thought they looked lovely. But it could never work.

[TheoriginalLEM]

just don't do it. you know it makes sense

[Purplehonesty]

What about creamy limestone type tiles? That would be light but wouldn't show up every mark as they are mottled/flecked etc.
Plus it's a matt surface and won't show water marks

[CointreauVersial]

The key to having an easily maintainable pale tiled floor is to make sure the tiles are matte/textured/mottled etc. Anything shiny/glossy/flat white will show up every crumb, smear or speck of dust. And don't have white grout as it discolours where people walk; go for a pale grey or beige.

We have a cream tiled floor in our kitchen, applied these rules, and it's absolutely fine.

[RandomHouseRules]

I have very pale floors and it is a total pita. I chose the tiles so can't blame anyone - every fleck of dust and fingerprint shows and it drives me batty every day, especially in summer when the doors are constantly open. The small people have to abide by a very very strict indoor/outdoor shoe policy and still I have to sweep/mop at least daily in good weather. Never again! I think it is the lack of grain as much as the colour that's so issue. I now covet a slate floor.

But, it is a lovely light kitchen!

[DramaAlpaca]

Complete madness. We have a white tiled floor in a small en-suite shower room and that is bad enough. Thankfully we sensibly used dark tiles everywhere else, including the kitchen.

[Patatas]

I have a white tiled bathroom floor, it was my most stupid house related decision to date. It looks clean for about 5 minutes per week.

I would never do it anywhere again.