Just a word of caution: The dishwasher is already installed and whatever flooring you install will create a lip in front of it. This lip will add complexity to removing and replacing the dishwasher when or if needed.

not to worry, the correct way is to remove the dishwasher, install the flooring under it and reinstall it. The dishwasher legs can be adjusted to the height.

Good to know Lynn!

Lynn, thank you for your advice. We have white quartz with grey vein installed on Island. :-) The part that is not covered yet will be butcher block. Backsplash is not installed yet but I picked crackled greenish grey tile on the picture. I agree on dark flooring will show dust and all.

missenigma, Thank you for your concern. Thanks to my indecisiveness with tile we had to install dishwasher first but we are planning on uninstalling it before flooring goes in like Lynn suggested.

Are you doing electric or hydronic radiant heated flooring?

richfield95, electric.

Tile would look great, and works well with heated flooring. Gray slate or porcelain, or I even like the look of this 'wood look' porcelain tile (even though it is kind of dark)

This ap didn't stop the flooring at your dining room, but perhaps this helps you visualize.

I vote to extend the hardwood. We have radiant heat under our red oak floors and have had no issues in 12 years.

We have a 100 year old house. When we did our kitchen addition 30 years ago, we put in hardwood. Our house has a very obvious transition with a standard size door between the dining room and kitchen, so we chose to use maple floors in the kitchen (just like our upstairs) rather than the oak that is in the rest of our downstairs. We had it refinished recently only because of some major problems with a disaster in the rest of the house that meant we had to sand all floors.

I like the idea of 'hex' but I would go with a LARGE format hex in a deeper blue-slate colour. A bright white grout would look VERY handsome. Just make sure you get a grout that is easy to clean.

Stay away from smaller hex/penny tile sized products. They are a BEAST to keep looking happy. Imagine THOUSANDS of grout lines to deal with.

Extend the hardwood. It will make the space feel connected. When flooring transitions, it tends to break up the space visually, which, in a "great room" is not optimal.

Have you gotten a bid on the heated floors, including the estimated cost to run them? I was surprised that none of the pros recommended it. Even the guy selling me a solar panel system disrecommended it (even though it would mean I’d buy more solar panels, he thought it wasn’t worth it). Might be different in your neck of the woods, but FYI.

FWIW, in my 1940 bungalow, I hemmed and hawed on flooring (considering tile, old fashion Marmoleum etc) and finally landed on hardwood floors to match the adjoining rooms. When I was looking at tile and marmoluem, it limited my design choices for the rest of the kitchen; I had a hard time finding floor tile that looked good w/ the countertops I liked. The floor tile became too much of a statement and very limiting. The wood felt more neutral and warm (and it is warm, compared to tile. You don’t need to put radiant heat under wood flooors).

If cost is an issue, you could buy top quality slippers for everyone in the family ;) I have some Ugg-knock-offs that are clogs. ;)

In our 100-year-old house, we tried to salvage and refinish the original hardwood, but it had some large water stains, so we had no choice but to cover it. The floor was not level, so we ended up laying sheet vinyl in a gray tile pattern.