What flooring for ground floor

[RhubarbRocks]

We are completely redoing our Edwardian house and the builders have been busy taking out the old tiles on the ground floor (not original - put in by previous owners about 20 years ago).

Our current plan is to have wood in the double reception room (engineered walnut) and tiles in the kitchen, downstairs loo and hallway (first plan was tumbled sandstone but after reading multiple threads about cleaning issues we are leaning towards natural stone look ceramic).

Having a wobble about tiles through the kitchen and hallway as the builders have uncovered some original floorboards in the hallway (unrecoverable but gives a sense of what it could look like).

Should we take the wood into the hallway as well and have tiles only in the kitchen and loo? Or stick with tiled hallway, kitchen and loo? Or something else?

Wood floor has arrived for reception room so we are committed to that but haven’t ordered the tiles yet.

We veered away from wood in the kitchen as we were going to have bifolds and didn’t want wood next to those but bifolds are now out of the question (damn you sewage pipe!)

Kitchen will be dove grey if that makes any difference!

Floorplan attached

Absolutely tiles in the hallway. Something close to what the original would've looked like. I'm biased though, as I love the original tiles in our Edwardian.

I have engineered oak in the kitchen diner (two adjoining rooms). The only downside to the tiles is that they're dreadfully cold, so I'm glad the wooden kitchen floor is a bit warmer on the old feet.

We have wood everywhere downstairs (bamboo, so very hardy) and love it. I'll never have anything else now. Ticks all the boxes - easy to clean (we use method floor cleaner and it has the occasional mop), lovely underfoot, not cold like tiles, and forgiving enough if you drop things. We have done precisely zero maintenance on it in the 12 years we've had it down - it's amazing.

I meant to say - in your instance, I'd keep tiles in the hallway to be in keeping with the original. We have the original parquet in our (1960s) hallway, and the bamboo everywhere else.

Thanks for the advice. Was worried about having three different types of flooring - wood in reception room, plain tiles in kitchen and then (if to be in keeping with Edwardian style) patterned in hall. Too much?

Not at all. As long as they're generally of a similar style. Natural stone and black/white checked tiles should go well. I'd just check the white tiles are a warm shade rather than a crisp white, to go with the natural stone.