thank you everyone for the suggestions. changing the colour may be an option in the future but for now i am happy with the orange. the kitchen is actually very tiny as it overlooks into this room. beleive it or not the bench is actually purple lol so its very different. i really dont like it but we bought the house as is and there isnt much i can do with it yet. ive added a pic of the kitchen and layout. as for furniture i will keep shopping around and take in the ideas of looking for a more wood type design. with kids its certainly hard because everything seems a cream or white colour which scares me haha :)

Looks like Jarrah, but not sure if Jarrah was used in Queensland

Hi Fivedock If you're using a tile that looks like timber I think you would be best using the same tile from the front entry throughout. However if you used a tile that looked like stone or concrete in the kitchen/ back area for example, you could possibly use another that looked like timber in the front entry/ living room with fireplace. Or vice versa. This only works because you have a contrast between stone and timber and there's a reasonable demarcation between the living room with the fireplace and the back area. It looks terrible if you have two different timber tiles or two different stone tiles.

I’m wanting to get advice on what wood so I can look at inspiration then show them the look we want. They will then commence work the day after we have access.