Well I have to be careful bc I'm running the natural red oak wood floor from the other room, coming into the kitchen area-I didn't want that in my kitchen bc it is just wayyy too much of the same tone and too close together (light wood). So I can't lay another color of wood down (darker/lighter), so I'm looking for tile ideas, or maybe this LVT stuff? Anything other than a wood floor with the natural cabinets...Thank you!!!!

The wood tones look good with crisp white (more on the blue side). Gold/orange likes to sit next to white, either crisp or cream (yellow based). But it does NOT like to sit next to gray. It takes a VERY special designer (ahem...the one that none of us can afford) to get golden wood to work with muddy grays. I would go WHITER with the floors than what you are showing. Your cabinet choice is showing BLUE-gray. That's fine. One of the PRETTIEST floors you can put next to 'wood tones' = blue slate! I kid you not. As you've noticed you can go DARK blue or you can go WHITE-blue. Notice the 'blue' in both? Yep. Cause blue helps 'set up' the gold tones and the gold tones help set up the blue tones. They make each other pop. I would stay away from the gray and stick with white or super dark blue.

I think either wood that is the same , my first choice, or a tile look vinyl I really dislike tile floor in a space where you spend a lot of time in. Tile is hard on knees, feet backs and honestly are not water proof in a flood the wood underneath still gets wet and needs replacing.

We have Marmoleum in a house with 105-year-old wood floors and white and gray cabinets. There is no way modern wood flooring would match our old wood and we wanted to keep the kitchen relatively period-appropriate, so opted not to even try to match the original floors (and also had a large dog at the time). I don't love the Marmo (we have Click and it shows a lot of wear; our neighbors have had better luck with sheet Marmoleum that's now about 20 years old) but if/when we replace it, it will likely be with a similar alternative or maybe with tile. We do have a Douglas fir subfloor in the kitchen that we could refinish, but just felt it wasn't a great plan to have such a soft wood (or really wood at all!) with pets and kids.