a large format tile would look much better.

Can you share your personal style, colors you are using in the rest of the house, and are the rooms open to each other, as in one room flows into another??? A few more photos might help.

The real question I have is Why are you opposed to a patterned tile?

Both are "fake", but the installed floor looks pretty darn good. Would you share the make and color?

Don't put another "fake" wood floor next to it. How about tile with wood accents?

@Lyn Nielson My style is mostly eclectic, but I like simple. I like softer colors vs bold colors. I can’t put my finger on why I don’t like any of the other tile I see. I think a plain white (or off-white) large format tile would be great, I just haven’t been able to fine one yet. I’m going to another store next week, so maybe I’ll find one there! I don’t like any of the marble look tiles. I’m also avoiding grey because I’m greyed out. I have this 24x48 tile in my shower, which I love…and when we were looking for shower tile it is the only one I liked out of 4 stores and tons of samples haha! I guess I’m just picky about tile.

@elcieg Unfortunately the vinyl floor is no longer made. Even the company that made it is out of business, and I don’t have the color name. I like it too though!

This idea...there are so many styles, but I can't copy the photos, but this one is a porcelain.

Here is another from build.com

Here is a listing photo of the kitchen. It’s such a mess right now I don’t want to show a current pic. The only changes I’ve made are adding antique brushed gold cabinet hardware, a gold light fixture, and curtains. I’m going to paint the walls white (Shoji White). We’ve only lived here for 6 months so I haven’t done much. The floor in this photo is now gone and it’s just cement :/

How will they be viewed together? Small doorways like shown? Because I think you can do it if it's in discretely different rooms, especially running it perpendicular to the vinyl like you have here. It's different enough.

Now, if you do this and then ALSO add in hardwood, I might have to run screaming...

@Fori haha. It would be a few small doorways with closed doors, and then one 5 foot doorway without a door (into the kitchen). The kitchen transition is the only one that would be visible from a main room…the other transitions are in rooms or hallways.

Hmm. Maybe tile shop more.

Or...real wood in the kitchen instead of the tile? Then it'll be cohesive when you wood it all.

@BeverlyFLADeziner makes sense! Do you think white or a light beige tile would work?

I found some tile I like (at least I like it online, I’ll go see it.

WOW IMO 2 fakes do not make a right. Then adding real hardwood is just bad period. IMO do the real hardwood everywhere now and stop trying to make all these work together they will not ever. For sure not white tiles in the mix just one floor everywhere please . BTW we also need to see the spaces where all this is going on.IMO that kitchen will need a redo too so I would hesitate to do the floor right now since you have only owned the house for 6 months and had a flood I don't think you even know how thta space functions. BTW even tile floors in s flood need to be replaced since with a real flood all the wood supports get wet and grow mold .

@Patricia Colwell Consulting if I do the wood, there will only be two types of floor in the house - hardwood and one type of tile. What is wrong with that? I’m on an unsealed cement floor in my kitchen. It is very hard to clean and needs to be covered. I’ve only lived in the house for 6 months, but have owned it for over a year. I did many renovations before moving in, so know the house fairly well. There’s nothing I could have done to stop the slab leak (broken hot water pipe…they’re the first to go). The kitchen is functional, so it will not be gutted. It would have been easier to deal with with tile. The water got trapped under the vinyl floor which caused much more work. I have dealt with the same type of leak on tile and it was much easier to manage...it’s clean water, the tile floor quickly dries out. They could have re-routed the pipe, and I’d still have a floor right now.

LVT is available in non-wood looks--which is what I would be looking at. And would avoid floor height differences at the transitions. Real tile--thickness of the tile plus thin set--will be much thicker than the LVT that it abuts.

I have heart pine floors throughout my house except tile in mudroom, bathrooms. I honestly don't understand the extensive use of vinyl today other than initial cost. But, as you have discovered, they don't tolerate getting wet and you can't buff out scratches. I have dogs and have been in my house for 19 years. If you do hardwood, consider oil finish vs polyurethane. They can be cleaned, re-stained/oiled if necessary w/o sanding the entire floor.

@ci_lantro, this is my main concern going from the vinyl plank to tile! The plank is only 4mm thick, and the tile is mostly 10mm. The problem we have run into, is that vinyl tile seems much less popular than planks. Some stores don’t even carry any vinyl tile, and the limited selection we’ve found does not work with the kitchen at all. I will keep looking.

@kathy_pickering, after my experience with this, I do not love vinyl haha. I know everyone wants the same floor in the entire house these days, and vinyl is the only affordable way to do that for most people…but after this experience, I think having tile in the bathrooms and laundry room etc is wise for some. Atleast on a cement slab. Just like we now allow some tasteful mixing of fixtures finishes (before you HAD to use the same one finish in the entire house, or it was a horrible faux pas haha) I think we need to go back to allowing for different rooms to have different floors. At least where I live, tile and install is very comparable in price to vinyl and install.

I don't like gray particularly, but I put a gray slate look 12 X 24" tile in my bathroom last year (like the pictures Beverly posted) and I will be seriously considering it when I remodel my kitchen in a couple years. It's a nice look and hides dirt. I am not interested in washing my kitchen floor once a day, so I am not going to do a light color.

I used tile that looks almost identical to your wood look tile in the bathroom that adjoins medium brown white oak floors in a hall. It looks great. We ran it opposite direction of the wood. It just looks like nice tile not like fake wood.

Could you tell me the brand and name of the tile. I want to do our other bathroom and Shaw has discontinued our tile. It looks almost identical.

Another problem with tile (maybe it isn't in newer installs?) is that it can be more difficult to remove.

I don't mind different floorings in different rooms. It's when rooms are open and flow into each other that you want some coordination.

Have you looked at sheet vinyl for the kitchen? (Do they still make it?) Except for DIYers, I don't understand why anyone would get the vinyl planks in a kitchen.

@HU-161159613, this is the tile. It looks lighter in person than in these pictures, imo. Or maybe it just appears that way since my other floor is darker.

https://www.flooranddecor.com/porcelain-tile/ashland-beige-wood-plank-porcelain-tile-100490150.html

@HU-161159613 also, glad to hear this look worked for you! Do you have a picture? No need to show the whole room, I’m just curious what the transition looks like.

Mine is creamy white and gray. I've never posted a picture here. I'll try.

@Fori, true. Tile is very hard to remove. Definitely something I’ve thought of and is a drawback.

@kandrewspa good to know! I had white tile flooring (like white white) in several rooms in another house, including the living room and hallways. It was beautiful and made the house look big and open, but it is a commitment to try to keep it looking clean.

Mine are white washed wood.

I think @HU-161159613 's floor change looks absolutely fine. I don't know if I'd want it in a large opening, but here it is nicely executed.

@HU-161159613 thank you! I agree, it looks good! The larger opening still a question mark, but I like it how you have it.

Here is a photo of the transition between my pine floor in kitchen and tile in mud room.

@kathy_pickering looks good! That’s a beautiful wood floor.

I have a pool. I did light wood look porcelain deliberately. What's the point of having a pool and still worry about hardwood or engineered or carpet. The floor is terrific. I have a easy to use swivel head steam cleaner...easy breezy. No regrets.

As I said I like the LVT floor you have. Do you have a flooring store near you? There are some great options.

https://nextluxury.com/home-design/tile-to-wood-floor-transition-ideas/