Its Just coming into summer here and we have been desperatly awaiting the install of our new kithchen. We had done a heap of planing and knew exactly what we wanted, but it wasnt until we spoke with a tiling companies christchurch who were able to point us in the right direction. They were really good at making us not feel like our questions were silly and we weren't made to feel like a number and the advice on how to lay the tiles was on point. It turns out that the grid/stacked tiled pateren is an excelent choice where you have a hardwood floor as with the grout lines and the joins between the boards run in paralel creating the flow from inside to Out. Worth considering for your next renovation.