yeah, depending on your climate, all wood (well sealed will do fine in the kitchen) or all wood-look tile (if you're not someplace with frigid winters)...

What color wood look tile would go in living area?

Go with engineered wood for less shrinkage and try not to match your cabinets but go with something complimentary.

All wood in bathrooms & kitchen?

Bathrooms are excluded from wood flooring. The only wood that is suggested for bathrooms is cork flooring. A cork floating floor could certainly go down over top the tile and a cork glue down tile could be installed in the bathroom (over the tile with a bit of prep). It certainly would work very well.

Cork can be an excellent carpet replacement as it takes over all the "soft and warm" ideas from carpet yet at the same time it has all the easy of maintenance as an engineered hardwood.

Are you just moving in? If so, keep as is for a couple of years and live in the house. You just may want to change the kitchen layout and wouldn't want to redo the flooring twice!

We bought it a couple years ago. Lol

Do you guys think the tile backsplash needs updating?

You moved in two years ago? Fooled me with the photos with no furniture! I just wanted to make the point that if you wanted a new layout this would be the time to do it. Before new floor!

How old are the appliances, countertop (type?), is the sink in good shape? etc. From what I see, I think a new hood and faucet would have greater impact than changing the tile backsplash. I wouldn't do that unless you were changing the countertop.

I would suggest hardwood floors..

It would love to update everything.

I know the feeling. I lived in our home for 23 years, only getting new appliances, sink, faucet, until this summer when the major redo happened! With a family, other things take priority!

If you want to start with the flooring, I suggest you just buy and store some extra of the wood, tile, or whatever you go with. When our remodel hit this summer we luckily had 13 extra of the floor tile that we loved, and was part of an update of 15 years ago.

Having those extra tiles allowed us to change the layout from a peninsula to a large island. I love, love the new layout, but would not have done it if it meant paying for a whole new floor for the space.

PS: I think the tile backsplash looks just fine. Maybe velcro up a spoon holder or spice rack above the cooktop for some interest. Or frame up some decorative tiles.

If budget allows I suggest wood floors in a dark color throughout, if your budget is tight you could replace the carpet with the tile that's in the kitchen.

Should I add some cabinet pulls or keep it simple?

Consider having engineered or solid hardwood installed. The continuity will give the entire space a nice flow. Update the backsplash, add cabinet pulls, and update bar counter top. This will give the kitchen an entirely new look.

I took out my wood floors, too much maintenance and too many dings with 4 boys and now 5 grandkids, couldn't keep up with the liquid spills. I got porcelain tile that looks like wood throughout my open floor plan. I love it.

I f you have children that use these rooms, I would consider a laminate verses hardwoods. They look fantastic and are very durable, in changing climates. I would choose a dark cherry or medium cherry, if you would like a warm cozy floor plan. However, we as designers can not true fully suggest floor color, without seeing what other woods, countertops or stationary objects look like. Every home has a color rhythm, that threads through everything, if it was designed right before you purchase the home. I would be willing to take a deeper look, if that would help. Everything you choose must make you more excited, to finish each room. There maybe some simple solutions, to help you find your rhythm.

If you want an open concept look use the same flooring throughout the spaces; even with no walls an area can look disjointed with different flooring in different areas. If you have the budget I would replace both the countertops and the backsplash, making sure to coordinate all three. My own preference is wood flooring, porcelain tiles are very durable, they have also come out with some absolutely beautiful vinyl plank flooring. Shop around and price out all your options! *Consider using professional installers that are both established and insured, if your flooring choices warranty is invalidated if you install it yourself.

Your cabinets look great. I would update the countertop,backsplash,sink,faucet and floors. For your floors a nice engineered wood will be fine. Once with some character in the grain will hide most blemishes and lighter in color too. The photo is from ARK and it is Paduak Congo. For a countertop look at a lapidus granite. I think that combination with your cabinets would look awesome.

Tiles in my kitchen family are too hard underfoot, slippery when wet and anything that falls on it shatters. Bamboo flooring is warm, soft under foot and looks great all over.

I would suggest hardwood floors

We put dark stained hardwood floors in our open plan kitchen and family room (and everywhere else except the entrance foyer & bathrooms) when we moved in 3 years ago and still absolutely love it.

And I have 2 active sons and a husband who works in construction and the hardwood floors have been able to take the abuse with no problems. (Just make sure to add felt to the bottoms of any kitchen chairs that could scratch). I would never choose anything else.

wood look tiles for sure and if you want to do something different in the kitchen maybe add some up dated hardware. my advice from experience is that laminate wood is very accoustical and noisy. it is subject to damage as well as real hardwood. plus if your floor is not level it needs to be leveled.

Love my hardwood. Uniform look and easy care with the new finishing products. A couple of area rugs to ground different areas and it looks terrific. Have had it over 10 years now. Fantastic!!! Not noisy at all. We live at the ocean and have lots of traffic and company. Several families at a time.

I would like to suggest wood flooring. Wood flooring really looks beautiful and classic. During the winter, you can save a lot of money since you don’t need to install heating systems. But, wood flooring may not be practical if you are living in a country with warm climate. This is because wooden floors can be attacked by termites and be damaged by moisture....via Eskandari Stone

Definitely a wood floor...something in a light shade to add contrast with the dark cabinets and mantel...

Cork or wood, probably pretty light since your rooms are pretty dark.

Definitely light wood. Looks better longer, much easier to keep, doesn't show dust . Contrast with light floors and dark cabinets is a great look. Will make your areas much more spacious looking.

Qood seems to be 'de riguer," however, if your home in on slab I'd consider tile before wood.

If you live in a cold climate, take this opportunity to add radiant heat under the flooring. Sure wish I had done that back when we changed out ours!

Dark cabinets with a lighter floor:

Updated photos thanks for all the advise guys. I went with LVT from shaw.

Lee, looks amazing. How do you like the LVT? I am considering this to replace my 25 year old engineered hardwood that has been refinished twice. Probably cannot take another!

We love the LVT. We put it in about 6 months ago and so for so good. We put in shaw Classico teak and it's really amazing stuff.

Looks very nice!!

I say lighten and brighten this area a nice light maple color engineered hard wood or even the new wood looking tile. update back splash to a color glass tile and white quartz counter tops or a pretty solid color like light grey Corian or burnished cut stone. your cabinets look like they are in good shape, if you want to add under and above Cabinet lights it would give you some emphasis.

One more question!! Did you all install it your self? Was it click or glue? Did it go down easy?

Sorry, that was 3!!

It was the click and it was really easy to install. We watched a video on YouTube.

Thanks! It really is pretty. My husband is very handy and has laid laminate, so I suppose it is like that.