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Kitchen Flooring

5 months ago

We will have light engineered hardwood floors in an open floor-plan. However, my husband is adamant he wants tiles in the kitchen. He is convinced this will be more hard-wearing and easier to clean. I don't mind it necessarily, but I am having trouble figuring out the transition lines and colour/style.


Here is the floor-plan. The red shows a removed wall. The brown is the island and cabinets. The blue is where there are long windows and thus no cabinetry. My contractor and I discussed it and think we might have to follow the original hexagonal shape and hide part of the transition under the bottom of the island. This means there will be wood at the front the cabinet where bar stools will be at the red line and then have tile on all the other sides. Because of this shape, I can't do anything very geometric or checkered (I would have loved a white and tan checkered look). My husband also has strabismus and very graphic/elaborate patterns gives him headaches. So then I thought about choosing a tile that would blend with the light wood colour. I don't really want a faux wood tile as I think it would be very hard to match and might end up looking awkward. So I'm looking for ideas on traditional tile ideas that might work. My initial thought is an organic brown/neutral pattern that sort of blends but I honestly am not sure.


Would any other styles or transition shape work?




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