Porcelain tile with a high DCOF rating. Or, stick with what you have.

Are you in an 1800’s saltbox? 1915 bungalow? Modern condo? Tract house in the burbs? Design is contextual. We need to have some idea of surrounding spaces- even photos!

if i were removing tile, Id be eager to get hardwood. get to a flooring store . factory finished standard oak flooring will last a long time and be easy to coordinate with whatever your home and personal style might be. you still need protection with a few mats or runners in strategic spots but hardwood is durable.

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IMO not enough info to even begin to help. Waht are the floors in the rest of the house ? All flooring is slippery when wet so wipe up wet. Use a good floor mat at the door. So post some pics here and a lot more info. All of that done in comments on the post DO NOT start another post. Make sure the pics are posted in jpeg format too

Waiting for some answers.

By the way here are the pics

That's half the house. Are you prepared to spend the massive money, and endure the massive filth that it will take to get rid of those and do something else? Because you can work with them, if you get rid of the dated grays and go warmer.

@Minardi, so what would be the process to get rid of the dated grays and go warmer? Also I don't like the seams. Seams is collecting dirt.

In the last picture it looks like you have hardwood flooring. I would replace the tile with hardwood finished to match existing for a cohesive look.

All flooring has "seams", because it all comes in pieces that are joined on site. Even sheet vinyl gets seams from joining on site. You don't have realistic expectations for what flooring is or can do.

I also would match the wood flooring that you appear to have in other rooms in your home.

I've had hardwood floors in my foyer that extend throughout my entire first floor - including my kitchen and powder room (only my laundry room/mudroom doesn't have wood) for over 20+ years - I am just getting reading to refinish them in order to change the stain. (I raised two daughters who had their friends over OFTEN + had 2+ dogs the entire time).

I think that removing your current tile would have a HUGE impact on the interior of your home. When I saw your tile (and upper kitchen cabinets), I was surprised that the house was built in 2009.

While it will be a bit disruptive, the end product will be worth it . Maybe your tile will have been installed incorrectly as my primary bathroom tile was by my initial contractor's tile person - it was pretty easy/fast to have the tile removed (my new contractor said that he believes that the tile installer let the mortar "skim over" a bit + the cement board was only screwed down to the subfloor instead of having a layer of mortar used between the cbu and subfloor = much less work/mess).

In any event, people remove tile flooring all the time when renovating an existing or newly acquired home. Plus, your tile hasn't been used throughout your entire first floor. My sister's former house was built in 2003 - it's an open concept first floor (plus, the two story high living room is open to the second story) + it had tile throughout the entire first floor. When researching tile removal, she learned about various methods that can be used in order to reduce the amount of dust.

She actually found a "dustless tile removal" contractor. It wasn't completely dust free, but my understanding is that they did very thorough prep work (which included proper tenting of current work areas) + employed various other methods while doing the work in order to reduce/contain the dust (one example was using HEPA filters + other equipment + closing off hvac intake and return vents). She said that almost 99% of the dust was contained.

They decided to not stay at the house while the floor was removed - but the removal was finished in less than two days.

There are various methods that professionals use in order to drastically reduce the amount of dust that will travel through your home. Make sure that the "scope of work" contained in your contract expressly details the methods that will be used in order to contain the mess. Plus, explicitly details whether they will be responsible to remediate dust that escapes. The more specific the wording of your contract is regarding this issue, the better.

Those tiles are truly terrible. The faux stone pattern that repeats. And repeats. And repeats. Ugh. All hardwood everywhere. Remove the gunstock oak first generation engineered wood in the living room (I’m guessing) and replace all the floors with solid wood. You will need to move out. It will be stressful and expensive and transform the house.

I thought the wood flooring looked a bit off - but wasn't sure if it was just the photo.

I would replace it also instead of trying to match it - the old engineered wood flooring doesn't look anywhere near as nice as the options out there today. If you used a less wide red oak solid hardwood (and used a medium brown stain that has a hint of green to counter the red/pink tones), it would be a timeless look + you'd save quite a bit of money vs. installing wide plank white oak.