WARM kitchen flooring

[DustOffYourHighestHopes]

Underfloor heating is expensive as we're on concrete (so would cost about £10k to dig up!), so we're abandoning our fantasies of encaustic tiles on our kitchen floor.

We're looking for something that feels warm underfoot (unlike ceramic or encaustic tiles), but is appropriate for a kitchen with lots of spills and dropped plates. I'm really clumsy.

So far we've looked at:

• poured rubber (difficult to maintain in a residential house apparently)
• luxury vinyl tiles (nice but limited patterns)
• wooden effect vinyl (I don't like things pretending to be other things, and the kitchen is open plan to the dining room, which will have engineered wood.

Any ideas, hive mind?

Karndean or Amtico wood effect.
The wide planks are lovely.
I have Amtico and it's brilliant.
Any good laminate really.
I put real wood in a room and it is wrecked looking and I have to replace some boards which is expensive.
I know you said you don't like things masquerading as other things but sometimes we have to compromise.

Cork? This now comes in easy to fit click together planks like laminate.
www.corkfloor.co.uk

I agree with holly

I agree Holly and Wow... I've slapped myself and the stone effect is looking decent.

Cork looks brill too.

We have the same setup as you and used marmoleum which seems to be up to the task a year down the track. The only cold spot can be explained by a hole that needs plugging on the outside of the house.

Cork also good too. Lasts for years (had it at my mum's for at least 32 years and still going strong).

Bamboo is warm, looks nice too.

Flotex is fabulous, it's warm, soft and easy to clean. Look it up.

Harvey Maria have some nice designs for LVTs.

We have reclaimed timber. AlwAys feels warm underfoot

I've just been singing the praises of cork on another thread! It's warm and bouncy, natural and renewable.

Thank you all!