You probably are going to need to find tile that looks like brick.

Even thin brick is not going to line up with your existing floors.

Our house has glazed brick pavers in the kitchen. ca. 1977. They are approx. 1/2" thick and are original to the house. They abut slab area that was originally sheet flooring and/or wall-to-wall carpet. The slab areas that abut the pavers war poured slightly higher so that there is only a small ledge of paver as it drops to the slab -- maybe 1/8". However, there was no way to make it all flush when we took out the sheet/carpet and put in glue-down cork. We had to use an oak transition strip that blends well with the color of the pavers.

As these pavers are glazed, sealing is not an issue as it would be with more absorbent raw brick. The floors endured 30 years of use before we moved in and have worn well. The mortar has stained areas, but it all seems to blend in.

I like the floors because they are easy to mop, etc. and really don't show wear at all. And while my whole house could be considered to be "dated", the look is an architectural one. The pavers don't date like tile would, with different eras having different sizes, patterns, designs, mortars, etc for tile.

Someone posted this link (on the flooring forum, I think) and I saved it as the brick flooring just looks so cool and hope someday to be able to do a room with it. The specs say their flooring is 1/4 inch thick, so with whatever bonds it to the slab, you might get fairly level with the cherry flooring you have.

Here is a link that might be useful: Portstone Brick Flooring

If you go barefoot a lot brick is not very comfortable and is hard on your feet.

I love the look, but know it's murder on the legs. Same reason I wouldn't want tile in a kitchen.

There is an antique brick flooring/tile company called Vintage Brick Salvage that has lots of real reclaimed thin brick choices. We are doing our kitchen remodel and planning to use the tile for our backsplash but I know they do lots of floors as well.

Here is a link that might be useful: Company website

Argh! Just lost my very long reply!

I was trying to tell you, Mobydog, that my new house has brick floors in the entry, dining, kitchen, laundry and a bathroom. We used "antiqued" or tumbled Boral Brick full size clay pavers. We new from the beginning that we were using brick so thresholds etc. were built to accommodate their 2 1/2-inch thickness.

We hired our tile setter to dry lay the pavers in a herringbone pattern. Since i was determined to do a mortarless installation, my husband and I filled the joints with fine silica sand and then applied several coats of Ring Brick Floor Sealer. The sealer hardens the sand. It was a huge amount of work and I now regret that we didn't just use mortar. The tumbled brick result in fairly large joints and I think mortar would be sturdier than the solidified sand.

Let's see, I think the pavers ran around $3.50 per square foot. It's been a while so I may be off on that. At any rate, the materials are not expensive. If you include our labor, it's a VERY expensive floor. ; )

I don't remember what the tile setter charged for his part of the installation. Our house is still under construction so I can't tell you much about use and care. I spend a lot of time at the site, and so far, the hardness hasn't bothered me, but I don't have back issues and I tend to wear shoes in the house. I don't have any recent pictures, but here are a couple of old ones to give you an idea.

Right after install:

during cabinet install: