New kitchen extension advice!

[Ipanema01]

We are about to change our kitchen as part of a big renovation and I'm already frazzled from looking at kitchens/tiles on pinterest/houzz so I'm hoping for some inspiration/advice!
I'd like a very modern, simple all white kitchen (just an Ikea job) and we'll be having our oak floorboards stripped and painted white. We also want a new, larger island with some stools at one end.
Possibly thinking of marble for the island (or more likely granite or quartz that looks like marble) but is marble modern, and will it date/look strange against a simple white kitchen? Is it too much white?
Which tiles? Argh!
I want it to not massively date and look cool/scandi/chic rather than too polished/glam/expensive looking....

I've got that kind of look. Haven't used tiles. Have an upstand instead.

I think white floorboards in the kitchen is asking for trouble . Marble (or looky-likey products) is lovely.

I love the white unit with pale worktop look,but IMO you need a strong wall colour. Are you near a John Lewis? On one of their recent kitchen catalogues there's a lovely white kitchen with pale worktop and beautiful French blue walls.

My only problem would be with your floors - they sound a bit of a cleaning and noise nightmare!

Thanks for all the responses - I've been too busy to check back in.
I was also toying with a pale grey floor instead of white; I love the look but with a Great Dane and a toddler I think it may be slightly more forgiving.
Love the suggestion of a dark colour on the walls and am drawn to to dark blues but the downstairs is completely open plan and I wouldn't want it for the whole room so I think I'm going to stick with white, then introduce colour and different textures with the things/furniture/flowers/mirrors I put into the room.
I need to find something that looks very similar to a white marble but with more durability - I'll cry if it gets instantly stained! I have seen marble sheets used instead of tiles which can look fab, but possibly completely impractical.

I'm a going through the same thing right now. I'm going for Ikea units with custom fronts, or possibly Superfronts, an oak worktop on the island and white/gray quartz composite on the other counters. The floor will be dark though. I'm really struggling with adding texture and making sure the whole kitchen is not a giant white blob.

Have you ever seen this website. It's for photo shoot locations but has lots of lovely whitish kitchens.

Also, if you are going to cry when the marble stains don't do it. It will stain, it has to be all about the patina of use and other such nonsense.

I LOVE Superfronts - are you changing the handles/legs or changing the fronts of the cabinets too, as I thought for UK we only have the option of handles and legs?
I have a dark floor now and it drives me insane, but that's with a slobbery dog . It shows every dust molecule and water drip plus you also see the mud. Having said that there is no perfect floor, I guess!
I saw something that has the look of Calacatta marble but was quartz or granite or similar - I'll have to try to find it again. Maybe Silestone? I definitely need something resistant to pretty much everything.
Thank you for the location website - going to waste some time on there now!

Superfronts will ship the fronts to the UK. It's about 100gbp in freight charges.

Silestone do a couple a fake marbles, if you google white marble alternatives a few good lists will come up. I think I know the Calacatta like quartz your talking about and for some reason I think it's Caesarstone, I've not seen it in real life yet. We have a marbly quartz in the bathroon and it cleans up well, but it does look a bit off with the pure white tiles and fittings.