I would not do "wood look" next to real wood. I would go for something different. Maybe slate or a slate look.

I really like how that looks Lily Spider!

I agree to not do the wood like tiles next to real wood. I think the color of your floor should coordinate with the backsplash and of course countertop. I wouldn't pick the floor tiles without knowing the other two.

I can't really think of any tile color that would clash with our hardwood.

A lot of white! Backsplash will be white subway tiles, countertops will be carrara marble, and cabinets will be white. Gray accents, chrome faucet & hardware, greige paint on the walls. So gray flooring?

I'd check out marmoleum. Maybe in slate gray. It's soft and warm underfoot. The carrara should be the star of the show, not the floor. This is the first photo I found with a kitchen that has carrara and marmoleum.

Yes to gray flooring! I am now rethinking. A gray wood like floor tile would look different enough from your hardwood.

I'm also in the process of doing my kitchen over now and chose white cabinets too. My wood flooring is a bit darker than yours. The tile I finally picked out is Gazzini Indian falls. Here is a picture of the floor starting to go in. I think a slate look tile with white cabinets is a classic and timeless look.

I don't understand why they won't let me upload a photo. I tried the other day too and it's not working.

I had trouble yesterday too. Frustrating.

Lily spider, I like how your slate floor came out. It doesn't scream, "look, grout, har har" the way some slate floors do, and it's not super busy. But there's a lot of texture to it.

Historian, thanks. I really dislike grout so I did the smallest grout line allowed and used a dark gray epoxy grout. I will never need to scrub those grout lines like I did with my old floor. Ugh!! My laundry and bathroom are small, and I knew they would mostly be covered with rugs anyway. However, I liked the look of the floors so much I would have used them in my white kitchen if I hadn't already decided on wood.

I'm a big fan of slate, though if it's real slate you have to be
prepared for texture and irregularity in the floor. Otherwise you could
look into one of the tiles that looks like slate. We did Rustic Gold
slate in our basement bathroom in our last house and I LOVED it. It
never looked dirty. I had them minimize the grout spacing as well. We just put California Gold slate in the
laundry/mudroom of this house but it's not grouted or sealed/enhanced
yet. Our kitchen will have gray walls, white cabinets, dark gray island
and medium warm brown hardwood and I think this slate would have looked
great in our whole kitchen but we wanted hardwood instead. Is
there a reason you don't want to carry the hardwood into the kitchen?
Our floors are red oak and when we were thinking about keeping them
natural color I found lots of kitchens with natural oak floors and white
cabinets.

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scoutfinch72 - we would LOVE to extend the hardwood flooring into the kitchen. That would be my #1 choice. However, we are on painting the cabinets, not removing them, and the team that's doing our kitchen remodel has said that it would be extremely costly to rip out our current tile and then run the hardwoods, given that the cabinets are not coming out. So, they have suggested tiling over the current tile as a more cost-effective alternative. I'm kind of stuck with tile, but loving all the tile options out there these days!

You're going to tile over the current tile? Isn't that going to raise your floor quite a bit? This is an issue if you ever need to remove your dishwasher, and probably an issue in other ways that I'm not sure of. I have a white kitchen with red oak hardwood and I like it. We did do the gray wood-look tile in our basement kitchen (with gray cabinets). Most people think it is wood; it is porcelain.

That is handsome!

Oooh I like that!

I would be concerned with tiling over tile. It will raise your floors up so your counters are no longer 36" off the floor and may look odd.