What kitchen floor do you have?

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We are hopefully going ahead with a kitchen extension next year and I'm going to have to make some decisions and stick with them! I'm in a complete quandary as to what type of flooring would be best. Our dining room (which has a lovely dark floorboards) will be open plan into the new kitchen/diner. I am hoping to go for a shaker style kitchen and am not sure whether continuing the wooden floor into the kitchen would be too much (we will have a utility area as well and I'm not convinced that wooden floorboards are a good idea for this area!). I don't want Amtico. If you have tiles, what sort do you have and do you have underfloor heating?

I have oak floors. They are OK but I would prefer something like karndean or another lino type cover. The boards have started to lift at the edges because of water spills and it is very pitted from so much use. I wouldn't mind tiles, my friend has a travertine floor with u/floor heating and it is lovely and easy to clean.

I have old (reclaimed) terracotta tiles. Underfloor heating in part, not in the rest, but we never turn it on.

It's really lovely, hides the dirt really well, is easy to clean and the worse you treat it the better it looks! It all adds to the patina, dontchaknow?

Yes, definitely continue whatever floor you already have. Looks much classier than a sudden change, and makes the room look bigger.

We are going for a painted pale grey shaker kitchen with a sparky white quartz worktop & a porcelain tile - the best conductor for UFH apparently. It's this tile in 60x60cm & that's the cabinet colour.

I have kearndean in bathrooms & love it very easy to keep but it does have a few scratches so I'm not sure about hard wearing areas.

Slate tiles. Love the look, but any dropped cups or plates don't stand a chance. We've also got a hairline crack in one of the tiles, but it's not noticeable to anyone but me. Advantage of tiled floor is that it can be mopped as many times as you have energy for. When we bought this house, the previous owners had (gulp) carpet...

Oh I love slate tiles, we had these in a previous house. I have been looking at porcelain tiles today and ordered some samples. Love the look of them. Our dining room floor looks something like this plank dark oak flooring and I love it. Just slightly worried that it may not be so practical for a kitchen ...

Sorry link didn't work - maybe this will be better www.woodandbeyond.com/products/Select-Engineered-Oak-Reclaim-Brown-UV-Oiled-15/4mm-By-190mm-By-1900mm-FL668.html?gclid=CPvbhsqL49ACFcO4GwodEiQBfw

I have bamboo and I love it, but I don't think it would work next to the oak.

I have the original oak floor boards. Everyone loves them, but probably given a choice I'd have it tiled if I'm honest. I just can't think of a good enough reason to hide them.

Had tiles in a previous kitchen. Hated them with a passion. Now have engineered oak. Love it. I agree with a previous poster - carry through what you have adjoining room. It will make the space look bigger and classy!

I have tiles and UFH. The heating is great, but I hate the tiles. We inherited them with the house and they don't show up the dirt (great), but they have grooves and divets to make them look a bit rustic and so are impossible to keep clean. Anything that gets dropped on them smashes to thousands of tiny pieces and when DS falls over he really hurts himself. If I as doing a kitchen again I would get wooden floors with UFH.

Ohhh .. I am leaning towards a wood floor but wondering how difficult it will be to match it up with what I have!

Stone floor. Hate it with a passion, but not quite enough to go through the upheaval of changing it (it was here when I moved in).

It's uneven 'cos of the variations in the stone (it's quite rustic, despite being in an Edwardian semi!), so it's a bugger trying to level up the appliances. And (as with slate mentioned above) anything you drop instantly shatters.

Avoid!

We have Moroccan style tiles with plumbed in underfloor heating. If you opt for UFH, the plumbed in type that runs off the central heating is better than electric. Tiles are easier to keep clean than wood but like others said, they do result in a lot of broken crockery!

Tiles. No UFH. Cold.

I have Karndean, love it.

Just had this reclaimed polish brick floor put in. Have a Cream shaker style kitchen and original floorboards leading into kitchen. Love it!

notarehearsal that's stunning.

Tumbled Limestone. It miraculously hides muck and has pretty fossils in.
UFH though and I have broken a few glasses.

I would make the same choice again.

SVJAA that's very kind. It was a hard decision so I understand where the op is coming from. It took me a while to find something that wasn't floorboards but that went with them ok. I've had floorboards in a kitchen before but they were really tatty and all the food used to drop down the cracks. I then had limestone which looked pretty but was awful to keep clean. I think these bricks won't be that practical but I love them!

notarehearsal from what I can see you have my actual fantasy kitchen, it looks really lovely, and very original.

notarehearsal - wow, that's superb! You have great taste. inmyotherlife - I will research tumbled limestone, too. This is a really helpful thread

We have laminate to try to semi match in with wood flooring in the hallway but more hardwearing. Do NOT under any circumstances put laminate down in your kitchen. As soon as there is money in the budget it is coming up and will be replaced by wood. It is awful, scratches and chips like nobody's business and it was a top of the range "commercial" type, not cheap rubbish.

Am researching porcelain at the moment as it seems to be quite hard wearing ...