Wood-look tiles - What do you think of these tiles?

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Hello,
we are considering possibly laying wood-look tiles in our house (quite modern and open). I find these tiles, if done well, quite nice. I'm just skeptical whether I will still like them in a few years. Does anyone know a good manufacturer of wood-look tiles?

My wife likes to use the phrase "getting tired of something". For example, with a very colorful kitchen (dark red or a blue) or also tiles.
At first, we chose wood-look tiles that were very - let's call it - "busy". These tiles had a great color, but also a rather strong "wood grain". Over time, the feeling arose that we might actually get "tired of it" and then not like it so much.

In addition, we had the problem that we also like natural wood look for the furniture. This would not have worked with the tiles. Then only furniture with white veneer would have been an option - which is rather risky with children aged 2 and 4 .

In the end, we chose wood-look tiles for our living room that had a "calm" pattern and are very happy with them.

Laying them is more time-consuming as well.

Our tiler was very pleased with these tiles, which he could lay in a random pattern. This went quickly and easily and resulted in very little waste in the end.

We insisted with the tiler on using matching grout for our dark brown living room tiles. That further enhances the wood effect.

This was the standard with our tiler. For each tile, a matching grout. He had his sample mat with him, and my wife and I knelt down in front of him and looked at which grout matched the tile.

The whole thing also gets quite expensive because only the end pieces of the tiles can be used for baseboards; the rest is "waste"

With our living room tiles, the position "baseboard" was just about acceptable. The tiles were (to my knowledge) 90 cm x 15 cm. Our tiler asked us if he could make the baseboard 7.5 cm, then cut the tiles lengthwise and accordingly generated a 1.80 m baseboard from one tile. Finally a tile where the baseboard was made without "waste".

Even an expensive parquet floor would be constantly monitored over the next years/decades. It would even change more or less significantly through daily use (which many find quite attractive). In this respect, wood-look tiles are not such a bad choice. I do have some reservations, because in the "old" house we installed the typical Mediterranean style 13 years ago and in the end, although we could still look at it, we didn't really like it (anymore).

It will be exciting.

We basically like them too. But with our wooden furniture, somehow all the ones we saw didn’t look right. So unfortunately, we gave up on it. But I do think they are nice.

We also chose light wood-look tiles from Marazzi for the ground floor and are so happy with them. They don’t clash with our wild oak dining table. That was our biggest concern. Absolutely unfounded. Ours are 120 x 30 cm and the installation effort was considerable, and the tiler swore a lot. By the way, we were also able to negotiate well on the tiles. Otherwise, we would have had to pay €70/sqm (+ installation).