What flooring with grey cabinets in kitchen?

[ChocoTrio]

For those of you with light grey cabinets - what flooring did you go for?

Trying to finalise the flooring for my new home's kitchen. Attached is a kitchen visualiser for the cabinets (light grey) and the worktop has a copper slate effect (second image). Walls are white and would like the room to feel light and spacious.

Would it be a disaster to match the flooring to the worktop? I've seen copper slate tiles for flooring as an option. Link to site. Or will it get dated quickly or clash etc.?

Any other ideas for flooring with this specification?

@mummyshambles123 - yeah it's the waterproof aspect of LVT that's quite appealing for the kitchen area.

Yeah - will see if I can get into John Lewis for a look too. Thanks!

@ChocoTrio
We have engineered board this time as we have underfloor heating. It’s only been down 6mths, there’s a few scuffs as the surface is relatively soft but it wears it well, you can’t really see them unless you point them out. Last house we had solid oak down for 10y and had 2 kids there, it still looked good when we moved out but was probably ready for a resanding and sealing. I would count that as very low maintenance. You have to use a special cleaning fluid and not get it too wet but v easy to take care of. We could have had our current flooring laid in the herringbone pattern, I love that, but it was quite a lot more expensive to do it that way.

@mumulala - wow! I love those tiles - they're quite different! I'll see if there's something similar in the samples I've been given. They look great - thanks! That has opened up some options and given some ideas.

We had amtico flooring in the entire ground floor of one of our rental houses. Looked lovely and was easy to clean etc but it was FREEZING!! Made the whole house cold! As we didn't own the house I have no idea why, but maybe check about some sort of insulation underneath or underfloor heating?

I agree to go with wood or wood effect as will be beautiful with the rest of the kitchen.

Another vote for wooden floors. Had a cashmere coloured kitchen installed and managed to retain the solid oak floor. It looks lovely against the units and is surprisingly practical.

I chose amtico as I hated the limestone tiles it replaced - so cold and instant death to any crockery I dropped!

I had wood in a previous property which got damaged by a dishwasher flood.

I like the amtico and would choose it again for a kitchen. I’m in a flat and it is on a concrete subfloor. It’s warm underfoot (I never wear slippers/socks in the house), and needs minimal maintenance - a quick wipe with a mop. It hasn’t scratched but there are no pets, stray toys with scratchy bits or anything here. Only “risky” activity is the wheeled recycling container at the bottom of my kitchen bin (totem). I’ve just looked at the floor really closely where it sits there is no evidence of damage.

For my living area etc though I would still choose wood overt amtico.

Another thought - I had a brief flirtation with marmoleum - it comes in amazing colours I really wanted a raspberry pink floor. Deciding factor was the width I would have had to have a join and I didn’t want one.

Thanks everyone - all really useful.

I wanted LVT (karndean/amtico) in kitchen, and also the dining areas, because it's waterproof. The floorer said that to get 'real' or engineered wood on the rest of the ground floor it might cause some unevenness in the height, since even with underlay LVT is not as thick. It's something they can work around though (add a slope etc.).

Not sure if everyone else has had a similar experience if varying their flooring materials on one floor?

@Playdoughcaterpillar Love your floor . What make is it?

I have similar units and the same worktop. I have Novocore vinyl plank flooring in a washed grey wood look and it is very hard wearing. I like oak look flooring but I have it throughout downstairs and actually really like the greys as they complement one another.
I can steam clean them or just mop.

FYI the stamp duty holiday meant I had a bit more to splurge on flooring. So, I ended up going for tiles - it's like the first time I have ever fallen in love with tiles! Yes tiles! They're called Terrazzo and just look lush!

This is the company that supply them - they have a wide range of choice and samples too - www.in-opera.co.uk

Not cheap, but that's offset by the fact the should be long-lasting, easy to clean and look fabulous!

If anyone has had Terrazzo tiles installed then I'd love to hear feedback!

We have grey high gloss units with a grey wood effect lvt floor and are very happy with it. Colour looks good and very easy to clean.

@caramac04 which LVT company was it?