The grey is too cool for this kitchen. Bite the bullet and repaint. See how well the greens that @JAN MOYER added will work with the room? Don’t have walls that fight it.
Go ivory - not white-white. SW Antique is a good color to consider.

: ) She has the WHITE dining table. Trying not to toss a baby with the bath water !!

Put up some attention-getting beautiful artwork over the sink and on the walls. Ignore the floor. Rugs will simply call attention to the floor.

IMO any rug will bring attention to the floor the trick is to move the eye away from the floor . I agree the gray is wrong and thta green suggested is a much better choice .A really fun colorful piece of art on that right wall would be awesome

There is practically no counter workspace in that kitchen. That is what I’d worry about, more than the floor. I’d consider putting a worktable in center of the kitchen, if there is space, and that will make the floor less prominent too.

How many of your live here and will use this table daily? I concur with John. Use tape on the floor to plan the layout before making a purchase. See if you can fit an "island" and a much smaller round cafe table in the corner.

A rug will draw more attention to the floor. Hang large vertical artwork to the left of the range run.

Pretty windows. Do you leave the blinds open most of the time? They will also distract from the floor.

I 100% understand not wanting to repaint. "It's only paint..." No, it is either time to DIY it or money to hire it out.

Paint is much cheaper than a new rug. the room will always look bad until this is fixed.

Adding a rug isn't going to fix the problem with the finish on the cabinets and it clashing with the flooring color. I would paint the cabinets a dark green color.

Agree with Jan and Beverly that there's a major clash with wall paint/cabiniet color and flooring. I'm often the last one on Houzz to recommend painting cabinets, but I'm on Team Green with that floor and cream walls.

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Add butcher block island. Notice how wood top echoes floor:

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New product UNPAINT. You can paint this on and the paint will peel off when you want to change or remove.

I'd paint the floor tiles to be the color you want, rather than repainting the walls etc to distract from the color you hate.

Look into painting terracotta tile. I've never done it, but seems pretty straightforward. Stripping glaze from the tile surface will be most of the work, but it is a small space so might take a day with power sander and solvent. Or, you could hire out the job.

The correct paint can be a very tough floor covering. Easy to touch up any wear. Certainly can hold you until budget/time/life allow replacing the floor.

I see the tile goes through the home, so painting it would be difficult. Look at vinyl mats. They come in so many colors, patters and sizes. Much easier to clean in a kitchen.

*patterns

Hi @gardellad, I’m with you, that floor really should be covered up. It’s not attractive and it doesn’t go with the rest of your design scheme. This is why floating floors were invented. Forget the rug, think Pergo or LVP if you can afford that.

I maybe wrong, but doesn’t LVP over tile a no no. I think you may have to fill in all the grout lines to make the floor level in order to lay the LVP, otherwise you may be seeing a tile pattern through your LVP. Hopefully a Pro will weigh in on this.

Add some pattern and texture to the walls, and above the sink, and on the table top with the strong colors of honey oak, terracotta and black. Those colors plus green or blue will move your eyes away from the large areas of different colors. The light gray walls become a backdrop. I’d try a rug too. I have terracotta floors in my house and once I embraced them as kind of a neutral I could see how to add other colors.

@njmomma, this is what floating floors are made for. You absolutely can install them over tile.

I like Jan’s ideas and also the one suggesting painting the cabinets dark green and the walls a cream color. A rolling island would be nice, along with some artwork.

Your whole room is orange! The opposite/complementary color on the color wheel is in the blue green family. I would repaint a light blue or sage. Not sure a rug is necessary, but something in that family if you do.

Lately, I have seen browns and greys mixing. I would add a rug that has browns and greys in it, to bring your cabinets and walls together and cover some of the floor. Then, I would find decor items like wall art, baskets, curtains, etc. that bring out the wood, grey, and white.

Based on the pics, the only thing that doesn't seem blend are the cabinet color tones. Floor seems to blend with what looks like wood flooring, in the other room.

Maybe, only the cabinets that touch the floor, would need to be changed,

with paint or new fronts.

If those things don't bother the eyes of the OP, then a Rug may suffice.

The drawers, by the sink, caught my attention. I was impressed with the intricate cuts made to fit the window molding. Because of that, I'd vote for paint.

Change the floor tile. It looks like dirt. Worry that rug could be a tripping hazard in kitchen also a pain to clean.

Your own labor and that of friends and relatives is free! Get down on the floor and remove the tile! Tile is hard on your legs and hard on any dropped glass item. No one should ever put tile in their house. Then install real wood or even VCT Armstrong tile - you can make patterns or borders until different colors or black & white tiles. It may take a lot of effort to get the tile up, wear eye protection - but it will be worth it!

The brown wood clashes with the stainless steel - either buy some nice white appliances or paint the cabinets white. Stainless steel is so ugly unless it is the entire kitchen like in a restaurant (expensive tho).

@E Aregla - yes, we see browns & greys mixed and they look HORRIBLE!!! UGH!

OP has not returned so we’re talking to ourselves.

The tile seems to be in the kitchen only, as the dining room floor looks like wood - but since OP is AWOL, hard to say.

I wouldn’t install a floor over the tile, because there will be a level difference to the adjacent floors, and because if hiring a flooring company, might as well have them demo the tile and do it right.

DIY removing a tile floor is substantial and, in my opinion, unpleasant work. I don’t know any way but to saw the tile and cement backer board into pieces and prybar them off the subfloor, ripping out the screws and hoping that no idiot used adhesive. Dust everywhere.

I still think that if the goal is to quickly change the color of the kitchen floor at minimum cost, painting the floor should be considered. That is a perfectly manageable weekend DIY job, and might cost all of $200 in supplies.

A kitchen rug large enough to take away from the current floor is akin to kitchen carpeting. It is a lot of extra work - clean floor, vacuum rug, having it cleaned - and expense. Save your $$ and make a plan to install a new floor. In the meantime, address the wall color as suggested, the gray is not helping.