Your pattern is a strong look that works best in a large space (300sf kitchen/eating nook). A kitchen with only 144sf is a small space that could be overwhelmed with the pattern.

IF you don't like the look, I would go ahead and purchase all one colour and have it installed. I know it will feel like a waste, but it will be well worth the extra cost. The other colour could be used in another space, like a powder room (not a full bath...the click marmoleum cannot handle a "full wet" situation).

Good luck. Send photos with a few more options that you might be looking at. We'll try to help as much as possible.

Thank you, SJ McCarthy. Strangely, it seems to look fine in the Forbo mockup picture in a kitchen that's the same size (fitting 3 diagonal patterns in the dark color). None of the colors we picked will work well alone (the light one doesn't match anything in the kitchen, and the dark one is way too dark).

Well, we messed up here for sure. It's hard to tell how something large scale like that will look in your space until you see it in person.

How about doing a "rug" with the tile. So do the darker border with the dark color and create a "rug" in the center with the lighter color

cpartist, that's a possibility. I will need to play with the 3foot lengths in Excel since planks can only be laid parallel to each other and only the edge pieces can be cut. Thank you for your suggestion!

Wow, Houzz won't let you to even edit your post now... Commenting to add a few more pics for the kitchen size/color scheme. All colors but the floor are final. Well, there's a cabinet door that needs to be rehang and the door to the basement needs staining.

View from the dining room:

View to the dining room

View from the left side of the kitchen:

These are made to scale (one Excel square = 1 square foot).

Var 1

Var 2

Var 3 (would drive me nuts I think)

Var 4 (rug). Don't have enough room left for the border on the right. Planks are about a foot wide.

It's white oak in the dining room but looks reddish in the pic for some reason. But I agree, the two colors won't match at all and we didn't even think they have to.

Thank you.

What does it look like with the brown tiles in the center and the white as a border?

I like zmat’s #1. The stripes will widen the room and also nicely mimic the direction of the run of cabinets. Plus, you end with a white tile meeting the dining room flooring, which is better. PS take a pic if that linoleum before covering it. It’s one for the books. Dinosaur skin flooring, they just don’t make that any more.

Haha, I love how you described the old linoleum! We surely documented the old lino as we did with many other things we discovered during the reno. The linoleum told us many things we didn't know, such as the original location of the stove, the addition of the mudroom door, and location of other furniture pieces. I'm pretty certain my husband decided to cover it with new linoleum instead of refinishing the original wood floor so that it gets preserved. :D

Kitty Lanier, it looks weird with the brown tiles in the center. It would be nice to be able to change the direction of tile to mix up the "grain" direction but alas.

Hi. I thought I'd post kitchen similar - navy cabinets though - wood floor ---

https://www.houzz.com/photos/kitchen-transitional-baltimore-phvw-vp~52571118

everdebz, I've seen that kitchen and it served me as an inspiration! Oh how I wish we could have the wood floors restored. We are diyers and husband is too lazy to install a new oak floor. :( Although, the main reason he refuses to install a new wood floor is that he wants to preserve the old linoleum. He's way too sentimental.

I would not do any pattern on the floor in this small room. I would do the whole floor in the light tan planks. Actually, I would have matched the floor to the wood next door in the dining room. That would have looked the best.

You have to wonder who ever thought that old linoleum was attractive. I had some very much like your dinosaur skin except on every other tile was a red and black and gold crest design stamped over the green. It was a couple of layers down in four layers of ugly tile.

Come on you guys, the old lino supposed to look like stone pavers covered in moss!

If you matched the linoleum to the warm, amber oak floor, wouldn't it look orange? I honestly don't care if it matches or not the floor in the dining room as long as it works with the color scheme in the kitchen itself. There aren't many color choices for Marmoleum click tiles that don't look like fake stone (which I can't stand): https://www.forbo.com/flooring/en-us/products/marmoleum/marmoleum-click-cinch-loc/bruquu#anker

If I were to use a single color, it definitely would be the lighter one but not the White Cliffs that we got. Maybe Pacific Beaches...