Open plan kitchen diner flooring

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Just had our plans accepted to knock through between our kitchen to the dinning room and sitting room to have a large open plan space.

The sitting room and dining rooms both have a beautiful parquet floor that has been there for sixty years. I love it.

What I can’t decide is what to do about the kitchen floor. I really like the seamless look, but even if I tried to match the parquet it feels like a really bad idea to have it in the kitchen area! Was wondering about tiles in the kitchen area but transition to parquet.

Any other options I haven’t thought of out there?

Thanks

You can get luxury vinyl tiles which look like parquet but are waterproof for the kitchen area. It is possible you could get a close match- then maybe have a contrasting border where the floors meet so you don’t notice they’re different.

Check out Karndean or Amtico.

You are sooo lucky to have original parquet!

Just out of interest why did you need to get planning permission for the works? I’m doing the same and it hasn’t crossed my mind.

Thanks, will have a look!

I know we are lucky to have the floor!

We got planning as we are also changing windows and altering the roof!

I have tiles in my kitchen area and engineered wood in the living/dining space. Challenge was to make it level.

I think it looks fine as the two zones are obviously for distinct purposes and it's a very large space. I would be wary of trying to match the flooring and failing. Something that looks deliberately different may look better. Personally I wouldn't want to lose original features but it may be hard to preserve them when you knock the wall down.