I am a little confused but love your top colors, very similar to my own! Are you trying to do a harlequin floor? with the same wood or to go next to that wood?

I want to do the checkered(?) (is that harlequin?) floor in the kitchen but it would be next to the floor in the photo with the paint swatch on top of it so I’m not understanding what the other user was saying about undertones?

It could coordinate, but you have to understand the undertone of your cabinet color, and the adjacent flooring, and then match the floor tile to the same undertone. For example, for the paint sample you show, does it lean toward blue, or violet, or green? For the wood, does it have a cool, taupe/green/ or gray tone, or is it more warm (think wheat, blond, copper, orange, red, pink). Hard to tell on computer screen. Maria Killiam https://mariakillam.com/ has some great descriptions of how to define the undertone.

Thank you. I will check out that think. The cabinet color undertone is green. The wood floor definitely leans warm in my uneducated opinion. So with a warm wood undertone with a gray undertone paint, where do I go with this?

You want a floor as the black white?

You need two TILES. Same size. In a porcelain. There was another thread a while ago, similar inspo, and the tiles in the inspo? Peel and stick, vinyl. .................................................

^^ good advice - i would be wary of falling in love with a single element especially as the design is already underway (but i am def a less is more girl)

I'm confused. Your counters are black and are your cabinets that dark grey in the top photo? or a different colour. If they are grey then putting grey/white checkerboard on the floor for me, is just too much black/grey.

IMO do the same floor as the adjoining spaces then you can do whatever for accents in the kitchen that are a lot less expensive than a new floor.IMO black granite would not be my choice with that cabinet color and for sure I would not add another black to the mix. Backsplas and wall color are beset chosen after the kitchen is installed including the floor which BTW should be installed before cabinets in most cases.

Why not just run the wood floor in the kitchen too?

@cpartist the previous owners applied marmoleum to original wood floors which will ruin the floors when we pull it up, and, a portion of the kitchen flooded and ruined it further. We did feather in new wood flooring in our upstairs by a reputable hardwood professional but it still looks too different and bugs me. So I figured an entirely different style of flooring in this small kitchen would be better. I have rethought the black and white checkerboard/harlequin and am looking for something different but don’t know what.