Here is the kitchen with the new flooring down. The orange roll is a new product I found that should help to keep the grout and tile from cracking. It is called Schluter Ditra. The underside is covered with a thin layer of fleece. The top side is a plastic grid of squares and ridges. It decouples the flooring from the tile allowing the wood below the tile to expand and contract with the environment without disrupting the rigidity of the tile.

It comes on a big roll that you cut to fit the floor space. It is then applied to the flooring with a layer of thinset. Finally, the tile is applied to the top of the Ditra layer with another layer of thinset. The little squares fill with the thinset creating a column like effect. This is the engineering part that is cool. The column effect is basically a bridge support for the tile above. Very strong and effective.