Slate or Calacatta White Marble for Hall Kitchen Diner

[vivimimi]

Hi all, We are renovating the house and the flooring will change as well. We are split between the choice of flooring for Hall, Kitchen Diner. We want to have same tiles that flows from entrance, hall, then into kitchen diner, giving the impression of continuity (size 600 x 600mm).
For the lounge and dining rooms we are considering laminate wood flooring light grey oak. (see the floor plan attached)

Calacatta white marble
They look amazing, glossy feel. We have fallen in love with it. Gives a royal feel with the Gold veins. However then our doors are all white and then we have to rethink about our kitchen units. The kitchen has to be darker shades. We are looking at lighter gloss or shaker types.

Slate charcoal
Very common, most people use this, probably because it gives that contrast. My DH is in love with the ridges within the tiles, gives a feel of authenticity he says. :-) Its easy to choose the door color and kitchen color.

Looking for some inspirations here.

Obviously they're not real marble and so you won't have the problems associated with having real marble floors (etching etc) but we have calacatta in our en suite bathroom. It shows every single hair that is dropped. I wouldn't do it in a heavily used area. You'll constantly be cleaning.

We have had dark slate before and that was far more forgiving in a kitchen. Plus since its real slate (rather than porcelain for the mock marble), I would anticipate that this would add more value.

If you do go for the calacatta do check the pattern repeat. If its a cheap tile then generally it means you get more identical tiles which is an immediate giveaway that the marble isn't real.

@HasaDigaEebowai thanks, honestly I dint think of that angle at all. Makes complete sense. I dont want to end up cleaning floors all the time.

Slate. It’ll be easier to change up the overall decoration and style of your house in the future - the marble is too much of a statement which will dominate - fine now but in ten years the slate will still be fine! Also if you ever sell, slate far more neutral.

Also absolutely agree on pp’s cleaning point!

A "royal feel" with Shaker kitchen units sounds all kinds of wrong to me and I think could hinder resale, so slate for me. Also, practically speaking, glossy pale flooring will be very hard to keep clean - my friend has similar and washes her floors every day.

Years ago we had a pure white porcelain kitchen floor in a very large kitchen. Every morning my first job was to stand the chairs on the table, Hoover and then mop. Every single fucking morning.

Go for the slate.

I have a shaker kitchen and my tiles are look alike limestone. Very easy to clean and very authentic. Slate is too dark. Glossy and shaker - just no! Look at expensive shaker kitchens and see what designers use. Not Dubai royal palace tiles I suspect.

Porcelain on the floor would be lethal and slippy. I'd be too scared to walk on it for fear of knocking my head open.

Slate beautiful, warm and non slippy

Some ideas.

Porcelain tiles are great for floors of not polished and glossy. They are not smooth when they replicate stone! They can even be non slip and you can get wood porcelain that is very non slip. Lots are made for pool surrounds too.

@My0My The middle picture is the exact picture I copied to do my kitchen!! I copied it almost exactly. 😆 Hahaha!

Any votes for Concrete tiles ???

Thank you @BigusBumus @My0My@Endlessmizzle and all

I think concrete looks great with industrial ultra modern units. Not with shaker. I do like very large format tiles and there are plenty that would be easy to clean and non slip.

Not with shaker style units. Unless you mean the patterned type but that would be a very different look.

Probably e we should go for gloss or Matt or bespoke kitchen