wooden floor in the kitchen?

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I keep reading different opinions. I love the look, LVT wouldn't look right, and it's a large kitchen family space so don't want it all tiled. Should I just discount wood altogether though? Or can it be practical?

We have wood. It's fine. We painted it with marine enamel paint though. White for a couple of years then green. The green is starting to wear off and the white show through. It looks quite arty.

What about wood plank type tiles? Porcelanosa do them. They are very smart. I think modern engineered wood has a tough finish these days - you don’t need to coat it with anything. Mine is very robust and just don’t drop heavy casserole dishes!

We have bamboo. It looks lovely, is tough, is good value for money and has recovered completely from a leaky sink and a leaking washing machine.

I wouldn’t do it. We’ve got engineered wood flooring in our rented house. It was expensive, looks lovely, but a liability for splashmarks and dropped food etc. in the kitchen

Forgot to say, there are some small stains on the floor near oven. To resand and make good again before we move out, we’ve been quoted £40 per square metre by the company that installed it!!

We have engineered wood but its a Matt/natural oiled finished smoked oak so scapes and stains just blend in and add to the character. I don't like the shiny gloss look floors where every little scratch and stain shows up. I love it and it's much warmer than the tiles we used to have.

We have it - engineered oak. Been in 2 years and still looks new. It's a 7m X 7m family kitchen / sitting / dining area with sofa area etc so tiles would be awful (plus I hate them being hard and cold) and don't like LVT as I think it looks quite fake.

Thank you I will look into engineed wood. We have a dog would this alter your recommendation on this? Bamboo I love but again wouldn’t work in the style we are after. I had considered wood effect tiles. Think I need to get some samples

We have oak wooden floors in kitchen varnished 10 years old now and still look lovely but did varnish them and had to sand down a bit and revarnish after a few years. Have engineered wood in living room and it doesn't look anything like as nice but just got it online and maybe if you look more closely you can get better ones. I want wood in next kitchen but husband wants tiles, think he wants a self cleaning floor though

We have a parquet floor in our kitchen from Karndean in blonde oak. It looks just like wood and is great.

We have pets as well as two toddlers. The floor is really easy to keep clean and does not show every paw mark.

Why would LVT not look right?

My bamboo is 10 years old and looking "loved" because it is

I have dark stained oak floors in my kitchen - easy to keep clean, look great, soft enough if you drop something, dog doesn't do any damage. I would never have tiles.

I started off thinking lvt. But because it will be adjoining rooms with original Victorian flooring it just looked more fake than it did in our previous house. Should I look into it more? It ticks every other box

We have maple floors in our kitchen and dining room. Nice light colour. Just had both rooms sanded and re-varnished for £500. They lasted for 15 yrs before needing sanding.

It sounds like real wood might be an option even with a dog. No issues with dampness etc to consider ?

We just take care to dry spills quickly, and use the recommended product to clean and protect the floor. No more wet mopping (which had contributed to dark patches of water damage before we got it all redone). Two kids and a cat in our house, so a fair few spillages.

We have wooden floorboards. Bloody awful impractical things. Impossible to keep clean, and spilt stuff always gets down the cracks to be lost forever. I can’t wait to get rid and replace with natural stone tiles (with underfloor heating).

I have original wood floor in my soon-to-be kitchen. I’d love to keep them for the loom but after much sucking of teeth, i’ve decided against it. We are going to roll marmoleum over them as it really isn’t worth the hassle in terms of cleaning.

I have tiles at the moment and although it is ok, the tiles smash anything dropped on them.

If you do, a good hard varnish is a must. Part of our kitchen is oiled boards and they hadn't been maintained properly so the finish has deteriorated and they might as well be coated with glue. They're permanently black with food stains and water marks. I'm looking forward to being able to take the surface down and blather them with a decent polyurethane varnish.

My mum had engineered wood flooring in her kitchen. She had various rugs around which took the stains from the worst bits. Once she got older she started tripping over them. The young grandchildren left a lot of marks.

I went lvt in our kitchen because I thought it would be more practical. It is but I wish we had gone wood because it just looks better. We have multiple mats down and I think it would have worked. I just have to be really careful when mum is around.

We have wood in the kitchen and it’s beautiful. Getting better with age. Just buy the best you can afford and get it repealed every 5/6 years. I’d never have tiles

I just googled to see if repealed was a term that also applied to wood! Do you mean replaced? Do you have kids/pets Oly5?

I think she means re-sealed

We have oak floors that have been "re finished" so stained and sealed. No problems with the dog, staining or food going into cracks (there are no cracks). sealed wooden floors very common where I am (US) for kitchens).