First off...what are the other floors in the house? If you have wood on that level OF you WANT wood in the future, you do NOT want wood look in the kitchen.

The products you are looking at will disappear in 2 years. You will never find them again. A match in the future = impossible. You will have painted yourself into a corner. That's bad.

Look at your home and decide the FINISHED look first. Now work backwards to create that look...project by project.

Vinyl is just fine. It is half the cost of tile. Not purchase price but TOTAL costs. Tile is $12-$15/sf for installation. Materials are extra.

If you insist on wood-look in the kitchen today, without looking forward, then go with vinyl. It is so much easier to remove should you find yourself in that painted corner in a few years.

Vinyl is also easier on the legs/feet than tile. If you're on a slab it may not matter much. I agree that if you already have wood floors on the same level, you don't want to do "fake" wood in the kitchen. Can you give more info about what your other adjacent spaces look like, esp the flooring.

I am having the same debate. My husband wants to go with porcelain wood-look, I’m considering both porcelain or lvt. (Whole house). He thinks that because tile is so durable and waterproof, that’s the way to go. I’m wondering though if the wood look tile will be “dated” soon?

This is so helpful--thanks everyone! The rest of my first floor (and house) is wood, but it's a closed concept structure so you can't see them together.

I would do luxury vinyl. It waterproof, easy on your joints, feel good under foot, doesn’t scratch, the list goes on.

It comes in so many colors and styles.

@Keshet Starr The 'behind doors' thing doesn't really matter. If you already have wood on that level (and/or the rest of the house = worse) then go with stone or porcelain look vinyl or tile.

Or...even find more of the wood and keep going. That's the EASIEST solution. That might not be easy if you have a factory finished wood in your home...but it can be done in a way that is quite successful.

Please, please, please, please do NOT use 'wood look' (aka. fake wood that looks fake when compared to real wood) when you have real wood on the same level. It will look like you couldn't afford to do it properly.

Thanks for weighing in @SJ McCarthy! Doesn't real hardwood have water issues though? My previous kitchen did have real hardwood floors, but they scratched over time so I'm hesitant to repeat them. I really don't like the look of stone floors, so figuring out what would style would be best.

Wood is reparable. Scratches are supposed to happen. That tells me the finish was doing it's job.

If you don't want stone-look fake floors than go with tile-look vinyl. But what ever you do, do not put fake wood against real wood. It looks bad.

Put in a wood floor to match the other rooms. Install water sensors under the sink, to sense leakage from pipes and dishwasher. Also, behind the refrigerator. We also have one in the laundry room, behind the washing machine. The sensors will shut off water at the source. Ours are attached to an alarm. Then, no worries with having a wood floor.

Thanks everyone!