Do you have to do tile floors, or can you use engineered wood? Wood is so much more warm, comfy, not as loud, easy on the back, etc....

If not, that combo you have there is pretty.

If you do use tile, go as small as you can on grout lines...(so check the tiles to be sure they allow for small grout lines. (Rectified tiles).

We control the humidity in the house but I’m afraid of putting any type of wood, even engineered, in the basement. We could use LVP but I would rather not use vinyl flooring.

i agree on the grout lines being as thin as possible.

We like the floor in the picture, but I’m just not getting the “this is it” feeling.

I think everyone agonizes over their choices. Maybe you can post photos of the space, the color stain you are using on the cabinets and put it all up together in the room, then you'll get more commenters

Otherwise, I do like the floor color...light and bright. You're doing rugs anyways (I'd assume), so the subtleness of the floor is great. I have real dark walnut stained wood floors, and while they are gorgeous, you see every spec of dust, cat hair, foot smudges in the light, etc. I'll be going lighter next time.

I really like the 'tilebar' website below since they have multiple images for each item laid out in the room.

Have you thought of a chevron pattern wood-look tile layout?

https://tilebar.com/dujour-chevron-natural-honey-8x48-porcelain-tile.html

These are so realistic now, gorgeous:

https://tilebar.com/dujour-chevron-natural-daylight-8x48-porcelain-tile.html

Another option is to go large format porcelain which would be gorgeous too. Many look like concrete or industrial....

https://tilebar.com/archea-grigio-24x36-porcelain-tile.html

This is gorgeous:

https://tilebar.com/cultiva-bardiglio-cenere-lappato-24x24-porcelain-tile.html

This is bold, Calcutta marble look porcelain:

https://tilebar.com/fortezza-calacatta-antique-24x48-porcelain-tile.html

Here's a terrazzo-like tile which is pretty:

https://tilebar.com/rizo-cenere-24x24-terrazzo-look-porcelain-tile.html

And this is soooo ultra cool, industrial, metal looking....

https://tilebar.com/plaza-oxido-30x30-metal-look-porcelain-tile.html

https://tilebar.com/plaza-oxido-30x60-metal-look-porcelain-tile.html

Go to their 'behind the bar' page and get inspired. My favorite is the Gold Requiem (used in the bar) for bling:

https://tilebar.com/lookbook