I realky like Clt’s choice. My other favorite is Kculbers. This photo shows how she matched the ceramic to her real wood stairs.

Maybe dig round and find what she used if you can’t get the Dado. Maybe contact her directly?

I have a ceramic wood style floor in a small TV room off my garage. I put it in way before it was a thing. I still love it many years later. We come and through the garage more than the front door.I’m thinking this is over 20 years old.

Color is lighter in person and not as shadowy.

Thanks eld6161!! A few years ago we installed wood look Italian porcelain“ Energie Kerr” tiling. Then we had a new oak staircase installed. The carpenter did a great job matching the stain of the staircase to our porcelain wood look tiles. We installed lighter porcelain wood look Energie Kerr tile flooring in both of our bathrooms. We puchased the tile flooring at quite a discount, as they were on sale. We love the flooring!

We used wood-look tile in the guest house of our previous house. Most people didn't realize it was tile at first glance. We also stained the staircase treads to match the tile. It is still a useful product for some applications. In the guest house, which was mostly a media and teen hang-out space, so the wood look tile was the perfect product. I never had to worry that my DH or the teenagers would spill something and I wouldn't see it for several days.

I don't have any good photos of the guest house floor.

Here are some others ideas I collected when doing research for the new build.

This one from Porcelanosa, Hampton Brown, was a really nice look if you wanted a darker floor.

This brand had some amazing products, really long planks and interesting coordinating shapes/patterns. Kronos, Les Bois. The colors seemed more appropriate for a modern style home and were a bit "gray" for my furniture. If the colors had worked for my new house I would have seriously considered this product. I ended up going with engineered wood floors ... I'm also in FL.

I think that where wood look tile can go wrong is the grout lines. Real wood floors don’t have grout lines between the planks so the tiles shouldn’t either. All of the examples posted above don’t have visible grout lines so they look good.

I like the idea of using the same tile through out the space you described- whether it’s wood look or something else.

@chispa That is an amazing line of tiles! Hopefully they will make some less grey colors in the future!

I've actually always liked the wood look tile. However take that with a huge grain of salt, because fashion maven and knower of what is in style I AM NOT. I like things based on utility first and appearance second, although I do want whatever is installed to look nice too of course.

I saw a wood look tile installed with a very thin brown grout and it looked spectacular in the home. I'm not a huge fan of tile in general, so I would personally not use it over a large area - but again, that's just my own personal preference (and aging joints!).

The photos shared here all look really nice to me.

Daltile Saddle Brook. Either Oak Trail or Farmhouse. It also has an exterior version that can be used outside, with enhanced DCOF properties for non slip! VERY reasonably priced for a good quality porcelain. https://www.daltile.com/products/Wood-Look/Saddle-Brook

As mentioned, the key element to the overall look with wood-look tile is to pick a grout color that matches the overall coloring of the tile. You want the grout to blend into the tile and "disappear".

Thanks for everyone's responses on this questions, and I'm back to ask a follow up!

I'm still not convinced on wood look tile. I'm always going to prefer the look of real wood. So I don't think I am ready to do the whole bedroom in wood look tile.

With that said, I'm wondering if I could lay a real wood floor in the main bedroom, and find an almost identical matching wood look tile for the lanai. I know the good guidance that you should never lay wood tile and real wood next to each other. But I always assumed that was people trying to match against existing floors in their home. Because you'll never find something close enough. But if I have the benefit of choosing both at the same time, is it possible to find a real wood and tile that work well together?

For what it is worth, the bedroom is around 18 feet square, and the covered lanai runs most of the length of one side of the bedroom - so the lanai is around 18 feet by 6 feet. The lanai and bedroom are separated by a floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall sliding glass door, so the effect is that the lanai is an extension of the bedroom. There is a step down from the bedroom to the lanai of a few inches, so the wood and tile would not be directly abutting. But if there were a solution to get something that essentially matches the wood to the tile, it would visually trick the eye into thinking the bedroom is much larger than it is. That would be my best and preferred solution. And then I can find a completely different tile for the bathroom floor.

Am I crazy? I'm making good friends with the woman at the flooring store, and she has excellent design sense, so I'll obviously ask her. But curious for the views of the GW community. Thanks!

The odds of finding an engineered wood floor and a wood-look tile that look the same are very low. You should really use engineered wood due to your FL climate. The one way to do this is to order unfinished engineered wood floors, install them and have them stained on site to match the wood-look tile you picked out. A good floor refinishing company should have no problem doing this

I've been looking for a wood-look tile too. Some of the wood-look tiles are more 3-D than others, which I think adds to appeal. So you might want to look for that.