Looks great--I love your different colors. I used the same flooring in my sunroom, and it's held up better than we hoped against wet muddy paws and snowy boots.

Your dog accessorizes the floor wonderfully, by the way.

I'd like to see your floor, but your images are not working. Can you fix?

The images show up fine for me.

Artemis, your floor looks great, nice job. I really like your combo of colors.

When I picked out my new floor, my dog (choc lab) was also part of the decision.

Ahhh- must be the work firewall. Pulled up fine on my phone. Looks good! The color pallet is great! I am looking for something to replace the resilient vinyl in the back part of the house and this might just do it.

Looking good!
What colors did you use?
Did you use the 1 x 3s for the background color?
I am ordering mine within the week and am psyched ;)

woo! we put in marmoleum click as well - I love your contrasting colors (we used Raven and Volcanic Ash in a checkerboard pattern).

We had luck using a miter saw since didn't have a jigsaw (DH is getting one for Christmas now) and we used leftover pieces of plywood for spacing which just so happened to be the right size so that was pretty much free since we needed to repair some of our subfloor with plywood anyway.

DH scratched the floor when he was messing with a chisel on the baseboards but otherwise, even our oven wheels didn't do a number on them (and we had to pull the oven out 6 times, good times)

I know what a struggle the kitchen DIY is, we have moldings and shelving to make/put up. Good luck, can't wait to see more of it - do you happen to have a blog?

Thanks! The colors are Volcanic Ash, Eternity (main color), and Silver Shadow. The colors are still shifting a bit with the ambering (supposed to just take a few hours but clearly not done yet, if you compare the tiles we took out a month ago to take to paint stores to the newly unboxed ones!) I really wanted checkerboard, but my husband didn't so this is more like "ode to the checkerboard." It did mean we could use more of the planks than the squares, though, which was a plus because they're a dollar cheaper per square foot.

@igarvin, I do have a blog but sadly have next to nothing about the kitchen on it---it's fallen to the wayside since we started this project, since things got really crazy at work right around the time we demoed. D'oh! If I finally get some photos up, though, I'll post the link (it's where the photos above are hosted, too).

I also put in Marmoleum Click and LOVE it! It's been in for nearly a year, and the floors are so much warmer, softer, and easier to clean than the WHITE linoleum that used to be there. I used the planks in a diagonal checkerboard sort-of design (volcanic ash and barbados) and love the fun of it!
You are so right about how easy it is to install, just time consuming. Also the whisper wool is so very nice to use, and probably contributes to the warm feeling of the floor. Enjoy yours!

Oh, and @dianalo, yes, we used the planks for the solid color, and designed the pattern to have 1-3-1-3 rows. One of the emergency boxes that we got was single squares of the background color, though---these were useful in that we had a couple of lucky spots where squares fit perfectly at ends of rows, so we used them there and ended up with extra planks (you could easily just cut the planks to fit, though). BUT---the eternity squares were a slightly different color than the planks! The planks were all batch-matched for consistency and matched each other fine, but I guess the squares are different. We hid them where cabinets will go so it will be fine, but good to know.

Pretty! (My floor is solid Eternity--if it weren't so small I would have stuck in some squares.)

This weekend I found some food coloring on my Marmoleum countertop (a remnant I stuck down 18 months ago while I locate some marble). Blue. Been there under a pile of kid computer stuff since a birthday party in APRIL!

Came right off. I love this stuff.

There must be so many more colors than we had to choose from! But I love our gray, too, with scattered creamy yellow squares in the planks. Your floor looks GREAT.

Congratulations Artemis on a great looking floor! Would marmoleum be okay to put into a laundry room? I currently have no-wax vinyl and although it doesn't look too bad even though it's 18 years old, I'd like to redo my laundry room soon. Doing DIY would be great but I'm not exactly handy. Thanks so much for the tips!

Perfect for a laundry room.

I posted this elsewhere, but am going to post it again (time is running out!). Here is a link to a 20% off coupon for Marmoleum Click. It is good until December 15, 2010: http://www.asthmaandallergyfriendly.com/images/stories/pdf/coupon.pdf

We installed Marmoleum in our laundry room/mudroom and LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I can't believe how many compliments we've had, and our contractor (and his subs) who thought I was nuts when I started talking about it (and talking about it and talking about it . . . ) are now total Marmoleum freaks--they have completely converted and they loved installing it and love the way it looks (and wears). Spread the word!

Yes, great for laundry, I'd say---they caution against using it in very wet places, but our laundry area is no more or less wet than our kitchen. The Click is tongue and groove, and I was amazed that the seams between individual tiles basically disappeared once it was clicked in. In areas that might get wet, you can also fill the expansion edge with silicone caulk, apparently. The Click also has a wood and then cork underlay attached to it, so it's really pretty solid stuff. We read varying recommendations on whether to use a moisture barrier under it with wood subfloors (you must for concrete subfloor) but decided to go with one in part because our subfloor has lots of tiny gaps between boards and the kitchen isn't heated, so that should help keep the floor nice and warm.

@rhome410, I think it's a similar palette of colors for the Click II, just different shades...but they also now have tiles in the sheet-style Marmoleum that come in dozens of colors! We didn't go that route because of the installation costs, but I was blown away by the number of colors to choose from. I also really love the Eternity and Barbados (creamy yellow) combination that several GWers have done, and would have done that in a heartbeat since I think it's warmer than the combo we ended up with, but my enthusiasm wasn't shared until after the floor was done and the boy says "oh, huh, maybe the cream would have looked pretty good after all..." :) (The Silver Shadow looks white in these photos, but is actually a blueish silver---I'm still worried that the whole kitchen will read a cold gray-blue once the gray cabinets are in, so fingers crossed---we're also adding lots of natural wood at the end, so that will hopefully combat the cold effect too.) Also hard to tell from the photos, but the color of the old door is what all the trim, the ceiling, and half of the cabinets will be---creamy almost yellowish color (BM Acadia White). So hoping for no clashing with the floor!

I took advantage of the rebate - I got the check in 2 weeks! That was a nice thing to have available.

I look forward to more kitchen updates! I find it so hard to find people who do it mostly DIY - I learn so much from other people. Keep up the good work!

yeah, way to go you DIY rock stars! thanks for posting in progress pics, inspiring and gives me hope!

Thanks so much for the info fori, margcooks, and artemis!

artemis - your floor is beautiful! We've been wanting linoleum, though the only local dealers sell only Armstrong and didn't sound super confident about the install, so we've been looking at the click.

margcooks - thank you for the link to the coupon! Would anyone happen to know if this is good for the Click II tiles (or is it just for the classic Click tiles)?

oldhousegal - I'm so encouraged to hear you did yours on a diagonal! We've an older home (1912), and I have this picture of a floor saved that I love (hopefully rexem's ok with me linking to it). I wasn't confident about the diagonal, though I guess it makes sense (you can tell I'm not very handy)

Thanks for all the info!

Here is a link that might be useful:

The coupon is definitely good for Click II---that's what we have.

I love that basketweave on the diagonal! If my husband had seen that, he might have reconsidered his checkerboard opposition... :) It's hard to tell from the photos---and I suspect it will be hard to tell once the cabinets are in---but ours is diagonal stripes in alternating colors, separated by solid rows. Not quite as good as true diagonals since I still think it looks a little too modern, but a decent compromise! Our kitchen originally (way back) had cement tile, too, so it was probably a more elaborate pattern then...

Thanks, artemis! I do like your pattern! I like the basketweave photo, though I worry that in reality it'd be way too busy for our space. I need to make some decisions tomorrow!