Tiles vs Laminate/Parke

The options are a wood-look tile in the size 20x80 or 15x90, a high-quality laminate floor for commercial properties, or a prefabricated parquet floor?

If wood-look, then 15 x 90 (cm)! Even better: parquet or cork. Does anyone actually install plank floors in single-family homes?

What about parquet flooring in the kitchen?

Nice! But as always in life, it's a matter of taste. Not everyone likes parquet, and if someone slaughters a pig every week, they should better choose stainless steel or possibly tiles (floor to ceiling). The households I know don’t do anything in their kitchens that wouldn’t also work with parquet (if your question was going in that direction). In an open-plan living-dining-kitchen area, I would lay the flooring from the living area also in the cooking area. Not the other way around.

We have tiles everywhere ... so far we cannot detect any coldness on the floor, occurrence is also quite normal and not unpleasant. The things are sturdy - unfortunately, cleaning is unavoidable. The only thing that bothers me is the impact noise when the children (convinced heel walkers) play horse upstairs in the hallway again. What would I do now? I think parquet downstairs and cork upstairs. Simply to try it out. We have had laminate many times in apartments, it clearly ranks below tiles. Carpet is nice but too high-maintenance for us... and it swallows LEGO bricks.

What should one pay attention to with parquet or tiles?

We have been used to everything over the past few years. The most unpleasant for me was laminate. Well, in the corresponding house the cheapest possible was installed, but it was not nice. Artificial foot feel, too loud when walking (and playing). Mostly we had tiles. That was especially very nice and pleasant with underfloor heating. But it really depends on the tile. Currently, we have large, anthracite-colored tiles without underfloor heating – also bad! The tile is so sensitive, just cleaned, walked over once, already dirty again. And I somehow find it cold. I liked parquet the best and the 100-year-old wooden floorboards currently exposed in the upper floor. In the current house planning, it is currently coming down to parquet or vinyl on the ground floor (also kitchen) and vinyl on the upper floor as well. Plus carpet in the bedroom.

Well, I find that very generalizing. I couldn't imagine plastics not being part of my life..

Yes, that's true - but that's just my opinion on flooring in the house. You spend hundreds of thousands of euros on a house and then you save 2,000 € on a significantly higher quality floor (whether it's a really beautiful tile or parquet).