I don't have checkerboard, but we did purchase the sheet Marmoleum in Caribbean. Ours is not installed yet, but we have the whole role so I have seen it in person in a large format. It is a really pretty, neutral color. It has some warmth, but is not pinky like some. It also has a little rust and gray in it which I think will make it very versitle.

I also liked it because it reminded me most of limestone. Ours is an arts and crafts home so it really fit that style.

Here is a link that might be useful: Marmoleum Caribbean

There's a Marmoleum for every color scheme--pick your cabinets first and the floor will follow.

I have sheet in "Eternity" which is grey with swirlies that look like spilled milk (um, yeah, we test this pretty much daily...).

Checkerboard is a favorite--hope you can go with it! Another classic style is the sheet with a border. See if you can find jgarner's floor on the FKB. It looks verrry retro and wonderful.

I had a hard time picking marmoleum b/c we were only going with the click version. You can order a lot of samples that will really help with your decision.

Here is what we went with. I think it'll work with dark woods as well.
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It's not in my kitchen, but in my sunroom off the kitchen we have a checkerboard of silver birch and volcanic ash Marmoleum click. I love it. The ash is not so dark and uniform as standard black; the birch is not so stark as traditional white. The variations in color and pattern are awesome for hiding dirt--my kids and dog are constantly putting it to the test! ;-)

I think the colors we picked fall within the neutral family, and we could put anything with them, really. I do love some of the bolder color choices though!

I think checkerboard is great, and if doing like you are planning with blue and green, it's not as busy as with high contrast, like black and white. In our last house we did a checkerboard with brown and tan, and it was great. (Laminate, though, not Marmoleum) In this house, our new version of American Foursquare, we used the Click in Serene Gray with some creamy squares scattered in.

The gray works as you described...Enough movement and medium toned, so forgiving of not being perfectly clean all the time.

Thanks for the picture of your checkerboard. We start to think we should go with sheet - less busy, and maybe less commitment to colors for rest of room, but then we see it, and it does look nice. I work in different schools and see lots of checkerboards, or other geometric patterns on floors, and they do often seem to be kind of neutral - the walls end up being any color. It does seem like a big color commitment though. We hope to never need to change the floor!
For sheet, we kind of like Winter Alps, which is heavily splattered grey, dark grey, off white and blue-grey. It seems it would work w/yellow wood cabinets and then if we tire of those, blue or green cabinets. The splatter patterns really look like they will hide the dirt. Wish they also came in tiles.
I do like the borders too.
Even though we weren't thinking blue for floor, we've also been thinking about that because again, it seems it would allow us to be more flexible w/the greens and yellows that we like. We could Change the kitchen from yellow to green, and the blue floor would work. Any other thoughts or suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

Check out the links to the rest of the kitchen--the floor isn't represented as well as it should be, but you can get an idea.

Here is a link that might be useful: fkb

I grew up in a neighborhood with houses from the 20's and I remember that a lot of the houses that still had the original kitchen floors had red linoleum. Just a thought.

Sort of to follow up on jilly's comment. I am putting Armstrong marmorette in a bathroom in my old house and will most likely choose aztec red (brickhouse is another darker option). It goes surprisingly well with almost any color I put it next to and still looks great where it transitions to to harwood floors. I have these really difficult yellow bath fixtures to work around and it seems to help the bath go from weird to pretty. Some other versatile colors seems to be teal and aqua. As we've been renovating our house I noticed that the original colors where predominantly peachy pinks or a few aquas.

Here is a link that might be useful: not as pink as it looks on the monitor

I think it is worth reading dianalo's Marmoleum story. I do not know what the final conclusion is, nor do I have any experience with this material.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0309230628604.html

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0309301415786.html

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0314213214711.html

Thanks for pictures and links. Just getting back from family trip for spring break, so just getting your new comments. Yes, we were wondering if the blue and green would be less busy because less contrast than very dark and very light colors, but also not sure if we'd get tired of it. Probably not. I've never tired of my dark green bedroom walls. Never tired of green in anything I've owned. But, spatter grey-blue is still appealing. Seems a little less radical choice, though my husband thinks maybe too industrial looking. I think w/border it wouldn't be. Will try to figure out how to scan in color next, so you can see.
We are pretty sure we will start w/yellow cabinets.
Did not know about the red linoleum from 20's. Have read about lots of blues, green and greys, though I'm condisering some of these colors because I like them, rather than whether period appropriate.

Ok. We are trying to post a link to the choices we are looking at for marmoleum floors. Not sure it will work. Should show the splatter grey-light blue-white sheet marmoleum. We might do a border w/it. Or, there are 2 slightly different green-blue checkerboard choices. Colors don't look quite the same as in person, but should give an idea. One of the blue-green combos has more whitish marbling through it and is lighter color, while other has less marbling, looks darker and more true blue and green. Cabinets will be yellow. Looks very creamy true yellow, though color is listed as a "lemon." Any thoughts? Pretty big commitment to live with!

Here is a link that might be useful: marmoleum choices