You have a few more problems than some missing tiles. When trenching such as yours, the exposed sides of the old slab should have been drilled and pegged with rebar from one side to the other to help reduce the chance one side will rise or fall different than the other. Was this done in your case? If there is no rebar, the edges of the slab will need to be treated as a cold joint in which case you'd need a grout joint / expansion joint above each side of the trench. Then comes the need to remove more tiles in order to install a crack isolation membrane (or similar) to reduce the chance of in plane movement in the future. This will make for some ugly grout joints. Can I interest you in some nice carpeting?

*pthtbthphht* Teacats ;-) ;-) ;-) If you really don't want to decorate in A&C style with Mission furniture, you most certainly don't have to! The Decorating Police are not going to descend upon your home and arrest you for violating some "law" that a couple of pieces of furniture trap you into a style you don't want to follow. Mission furniture goes quite well with many contemporary pieces, for example, as well as with primitives, not-too-spindly Shaker pieces, pretty much anything that continues that simplicity of shape. Some people like to mix in Asian things - some of the most prominent designers of the period were heavily influenced by Asian traditions, like Greene & Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright. Especially since it's natural cherry instead of something dark and "classic Mission" like fumed oak or mahogany (the Stickleys used quite a bit of mahogany) your furniture already has a less "conventional Arts & Crafts" look. Handwoven textiles or vintage embroidered linens (eBay and Touch of Europe has some great vintage stuff at pretty reasonable prices) are perfect for tablecloths/runners. Think about a faux-sisal carpet in wool or polypropylene, or to go in the other direction, a braided rug. LLBean has nice ones and a lifetime guarantee on their products. Although Betty is IMO on a good track with a suggestion of pottery, you are not restricted to period pieces - since you like primitives, putting a collection of primitive pottery jugs and pitchers on the buffet would be interesting and attractive, and still compatible with the furniture. It's undoubtedly a little bit of a cliche but I still have a fondness for a pottery jug or chunky vase filled with pussywillows! (Although I am totally over the whole curly willow fad. LOL) Actually, pretty much anything handcrafted would play nicely here - baskets, folk-art paintings, etc. Wrought iron would be very good for lighting to merge your liking for primitives with the Mission items, but you're not limited to A&C style things at all. Hubbardton Forge makes a lot of really neat iron lighting. With the natural cherry furniture and painted trim, you may want to try lighter colors than you would with stained trim and dark oak/mahogany furniture. Sorry, I don't agree with Teacats' color recommendations, because IMO deep color does not work as well with light painted trim and light wood tones - too high contrast - and by the Twenties the Colonial Revival style was coming to dominate over A&C anyway. The strong, muddied A&C colors were being replaced with lighter, softer tones like soft green, slatey blues, pale peach/coral, and such, and white trim was actually coming to be the norm. Probably a revolt against the last few decades of dark stained trim! :-) (If you have a Finneran & Haley paint dealer around by chance, they have excellent pamphlets with paint chips for their Historical Colors lines. Don't go by the dealer locator on their site, call them, because I don't see the dealer nearest to me in their listing.) Many of the colors in Bradbury & Bradbury's Arts & Crafts II wallpaper frieze line are appropriate as well - their samples are pretty cheap and might work nicely for color-scheme inspiration. Hope this helps some.

This is just my humble opinion, but a lot of the wood-look porcelain/ceramic tiles that I've seen look better quality than some of the cheapo engineered or laminate "wood" floors out there. And after a year or two, I imagine the quality of the better tiles is even more evident compared worn low-end engineered or laminate flooring. Whether you're talking about tiles or engineered wood, quality makes a huge difference. I love the more unusual looks that wood-look tiles can pull off - looks that would be hard to achieve with real wood like driftwood, etc. For example - That would be a low-maintenance rustic chic look for my busy family lifestyle. When I had ceramic tile in the kitchen, I generally found that wearing "house" flip-flops eased the hardness for my feet. We just extended top-nailed site finished oak planks into our kitchen because we have an open concept living space. Love the look but it was super expensive and I am dreading the fussing at the kids (and myself) that will be required to keep it in decent condition. High traffic areas of the new hardwood were down to bare wood after 12 years before refinishing. I think a lot of flooring looks that are popular now will look dated in a decade - including engineered wood, etc. My grey kitchen tiles weren't too bad, but the 12"x12" shape looked dated after 10 years. So, realistically, plan what will work for you for the next decade, then if you're lucky that your choices work out for longer than that, it's a bonus :) . Here is a link that might be useful: Mission Stone Tile

I like the tile and would def use it in an area that called for it. However, i think i may be alone in liking wood look tile that doesn't actually look like wood, e.g. Is not the color of adjoining wood or wood elsewhere in a house or even one of the polular wood colors. I like the product in pale gray, weathered grayish white, white, beige-y white, etc.. (But not pink, Chispa, lol!). I think the tile looks best when it is a kind of take off of wood floors but not meant as an actual substitute for them, iykwim. adding, as all the new flooring options are refined i think "real" wood is fast becoming just one of many options. I would never have thought things like wood look tile and vinyl plank tile would ever be as popular as they are, but they are each perfect for certain situations, houses and customers and they look great on their own---not simply as a wood substitute. I think more such options are in the future, which will take the environmental pressure off with respect to wood.