Hi Gretta, we used tiles to the kitchen area to provide a more wear-resistant finish to this area. The footprint was aligned to the face of the external wall to give a rule or logic to the setout. For you space, perhaps consider doing the same - finding a feature in the layout to align the boundary of tile/floorboards to.

That failing, you could consider just tiling the working zone which is 1-1.2m back from the kitchen cabinets.

Hi, I love the tiles (they look even better when I visited on Openhouse day!), could I ask where they come from please?

have you considered wood effect tiles?

you can get some very good quality ones that work beautifully and if you get underfloor heating done you can probably use it for the whole space or find a tile that compliments a real wood.