I choose E

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I like b best, but d is cute too. I do not like the last one at all. It is totally devoid of charm and personality.

I really like B and C. I think those two really hit on your points of "light, fun, modest, airy". I don't like E at all. And I'm not sure that A fits your description best either.

Looks like it's going to be a great space!

What are you doing for counters? You left it out of your description, but it's important. If they are going to be heavily patterned or solid?

I like b the best...very, very cute!! I also really like a because I love penny tile but maybe you could do it in a pale yellow instead of the white. I think e is not good at all...just blah.

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I really like A or C. I think if you are going to have a very graphic element you should avoid other graphic elements in the room. D could look good if you used matching grout but I think E is a little boring.

@gooster Oops, sorry, the counters are going to be honed Steel Gray granite. It's a fairly uniform charcoal gray with no movement. I've linked to a pic.

Looks like most people are liking the patterned floor. Interesting!

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I think if you are going to have a very graphic element you should avoid other graphic elements in the room.

This is what I'm struggling with. I know we want a pattern, but should we do it in the floor or on the backsplash? Or can we pull off both if the patterns are restrained and relate to each other well enough?

For practical reasons, I don't like marmo click in the kitchen, the reason being that the layer of lino on top of the cork base is very thin, and I've had some gouges/dents. Now that I think about it, the gouges didn't penetrate to the cork, but it just seemed like the cork was too soft for a kitchen application. One of my friends also had click in her kitchen and said she wouldn't do it again, for the same reasons I mentioned.

So, I would recommend one of the options that includes the sheet marmoleum. I like it paired with the funky yellow and white BS. I also like the idea of a plain yellow backsplash--it creates a nice chunky colour -- I think the term is 'colour blocking'. Slightly warmer than than the straight white BS.

Really, I like all your options :-) but I highly recommend marmo sheet rather than click.

You can do 2 graphic elements as long as they are completely different in scale (this is what I read somewhere).

Marmoleum feels and looks wonderful!

I think those patterns look pretty contemporary. Is that what you want? I would think straight checkerboard would be more traditional. Or something like one of these two patterns?

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And here's another pattern I love, the first one:

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Thanks all. Wish I could respond thoroughly to e eryone but my computer died last night (ugh) and posting from my phone is proving painful. Will be back when I can. Thanks again.

Computer back, hurrah! And in the meantime we've made our flooring decision: the Donkey Island sheet Marmoleum. According to the flooring guy we were going to have a 1/4" high transition to the hardwood in the next room if we went with the Click, which DH was not okay with. So sheet it is. I'm a little sad about not doing the pattern, sniff. But relieved to have one decision made. Thanks again for the opinions!

You made the right decision! Picture C was my favorite!

I am no expert, but in the older homes that I have had and been in (all circa 1868- 1942) I have only seen the penny tile in bathrooms, never in a kitchen. I don't know why that would be, but when I see penny tile I think "bathroom".

I like the multicolor pastel backsplash. That relates to those I have seen in those older homes, too -- although usually a solid block of one color trimmed in another (which is a look I often disliked because it was a pastel trimmed in black).