Kitchen flooring

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Moving into a house that has carpet in kitchen and dining area, however I don’t like the idea of carpet there (worried about spillages etc).
DH was thinking tiling the floor, but I’ve been wondering if wooden floor would look decent in kitchen? Is it a wise idea? Are there particular designs that would look ok?
First time in thinking of something different for the kitchen floor other than laminate/vinyl.
Thank you

I have porcelain tiles in my kitchen. I love the look, they are terracotta, don't show the dirt and are easy to clean, but if you drop something it is guaranteed to break. I don't mind the cold underfoot at all, I'm used to it at this stage.

I moved into a house with carpet tiles in the kitchen once. Literally the first thing we did was rip them up, they were minging.

Porecelain tiles with underfloor heating are lovely. In the 20 years I have had a tiled floor I have never broken anything on them and they are easy to keep clean. It they are properly laid using ditra mat they will not crack.

We have had engineered wood in our kitchen for 7+ years and its brilliant. Before that we had porcelain tiles but the floor was freezing in winter. If you want to have tiles I would put underfloor heating in.

We clean our floor with a Karcher cleaner, really easy to look after.

FWIW, I have had porcelain tiles and Karndean (and very briefly engineered wood) in kitchens. The engineered wood I would not recommend - dented horribly and wasn’t up to the job so we replaced it at great expense for Karndean which I actually really loved. It was easy to keep clean and warm underfoot. And didn’t show the dirt. In this house we had porcelain laid because it was £1200 inc materials and labour (And underfloor heating), and was done seamlessly by our builder. Karndean estimate was £2k but the biggest issue was slotting the work into a bigger project, and that we couldn’t decide on a tile we both liked. The parquet pictured above is lovely, but we have 100 year old woodblock parquet in the rest of the downstairs. IMO Karndean does look and feel a bit plasticky but it does fool most people and is a nice surface to live with. UFH mats are great, but we never turn ours on because they instantly double our energy consumption.

Like pp's I went for Karndean too (hall and kitchen). It's been down for 18 months now & still looks brand new. That's even with my two cats having crazy time twice a day.

I've got an old house and wanted something vaguely in-keeping so went for parquet. I believe it was called cherry; I liked the warmth.

Amtico is excellent too - I've got that in the bathroom/ensuites.

Thank you so much for all the replies, I’ve been having a good look at all the suggestions, so much food for thought! I’ve definitely decided against wooden floors, now I just need to decide what I want to do with 😂
@goldierocks thank you for sharing the photo, that looks beautiful

We have wood effect porcelain. Not too cold underfoot (though it is a well insulated room), easy to clean and, importantly for me, doesn't show every mark so you can get away without constant cleaning! Glasses do shatter on it though...