Hello, First, let me tell you that your Kitchen looks great and it's also spacious. I really like it! When you said, you would prefer to have your space light and that you prefer light coloured floor, the first idea it came in my mind it was the Scandinavian Kitchen style, where mostly white or light coloured floor is being used. I very much like white floor or some light grey/brown shades as you can see on the second image. Light oak it's also good idea, however if the furniture is also light oak colour it could happen that your space goes flat and boring. Don't forget that you can always decorate your space with some ornaments to make it look more interesting. Hope this helps! Best wishes

Hi Amanda, we specialise in vinyl flooring which is easy to install thanks to our Click Technology. We have both wood effect and stone effect tiles. If you're after dark wood effect, we think the following flooring would look great: Blackjack Oak 22862 Country Oak 24892 Alternatively, here's the link to our other wood effect vinyls: http://www.moduleo.co.uk/products/wood Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi George - in short, if you clean up the spill, it wont leave a mark. A bit more info: Engineered wood flooring can be installed in a kitchen as long as it is subsequently cleaned and maintained correctly. There is unfortunately no such thing as a self-cleaning, impenetrable wood floor, but wood flooring finished with either an oiled or lacquered finish is perfectly suitable for a kitchen provided you look after it. Oiled and lacquered finishes are both hardwearing, but protect your wood in different ways. Oil penetrates and saturates the wood, protecting it from within, whereas lacquer sits upon the surface as a protective film. Spills can be wiped from an oiled floor without leaving a mark but if you leave them for a prolonged period of time they will leave a stain. If you apply a coat of maintenance oil once or twice a year as recommended you should not have any issues with stains or marks, but if you allow your floor to dry out the wood will become porous and absorb more moisture, which will cause the floor to mark and stain. A great advantage to oiled floors is that they are easily reparable by lightly sanding out marks and stains and then applying a coat of maintenance oil to reseal the floor. A lacquer is a coating which sits on the surface of your wood floor almost like a plastic film protecting it. It take longer for a spill to penetrate a lacquered finish than an oiled one, but although lacquer is very tough it is not impenetrable. If something spills on the floor and is left there it will eventually penetrate the lacquer and stain the wood beneath, which is difficult to fix as lacquer cannot be spot fixed very effectively

Hi there, Quickstep do in fact have a couple of slate vinyl options. You can see them on our website here. If you are looking for some samples you can get in touch with us via email at info@floormonster.co.uk or you can call us on 0141 887 5698. Here are two darker options from this range. These boards are the exact same colour. However, the spec of them are different. AMCL40034 Grey Slate AMPL40034 Grey Slate Kind Regards, Jack