Interior design question on flooring

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go for a light colored laminate?

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is never the answer.

Just pony up the $ for hard wood now

eta: or maybe engineered wood, tile that looks like wood, or concrete.

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tile that looks like wood

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I've been liking this a lot lately. Will be looking into it more when it's time for new flooring at the house.

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eta: or maybe engineered wood, tile that looks like wood, or concrete.

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I was thinking about the concrete option. My laminate is exposed once you walk into the house - living room and kitchen. Both bathrooms are tiled. As you walk in, my master bedroom is to the right. As you walk in, carpet. The master bath is the left and tile (light colored).

The other two bedrooms are to the left as you walk in with the guest bath in between them.

I just don't know what would look best. This is not a poor people question, I genuinely am willing to spend, but I want to know what the consensus is...may ask some of my female friends over to help out.

Does the carpet match the drapes?

If you're going to rip out the carpet and put down some sort of wood make sure it matches with the wood that is in the rest of the house.

If you don't want it to look like shite either get the same wood laminate that's in your living area, or rip it all up and put something new throughout.

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tile that looks like wood,

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Yes

Check into New Pine tongue and groove.
You can get it in 5 1/4", 6", and 6 1/2" widths.
Pricing on it is under $1 per sf and after installation, sanding, and finishing, has the look of antique heart pine. The only difference is the tightness of the grain (number of grain lines). Completed floor should be no more than $5 sf . That's not a bad deal for the product you're getting considering $3 of that is just in wood, glue, sandpaper, stain, and polyurethane.
I would upload pictures of some I've done but I'm a idiot and I don't know how to put them on here lol.

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Want this to, but have an old pier and beam home. Using backerboard is an option but I risk the grout cracking if I use tile more than 10-12"

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I have an older home off of the ground. Had plywood and lenolium in the kitchen. I installed 1/2" cement board, taped the seams and "floated" them with some sort of grout to make it fairly seamless. Installed 16" square tile with +-5/16" joints. Did this work in the summer of 07 and have had zero problems, not a single crack.

On the other hand, part of my house is on slab. I installed brick pavers without prepping a joint between slabs as well and it looks like San Andreas now.

What color? My concern is the dark laminate already down in the living room which connects all the bedrooms...should I go a light color?

Wood look tile would be my go to. I'm looking at this